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The territory of Montemarcello-Magra Park offers several local wine and gastronomy products and many traditional dishes characterizing the various areas of the inland and seafront areas of La Spezia, different for environmental and cultural features. Over 15 products have already been added to the regional atlas of traditional products (including different apple varieties, Birindella peach, Alberello courgette, etc.) and others will be added soon. The rich wine and gastronomy heritage includes quality agricultural products mainly coming from Val di Vara, like onion and Pignone potato, local traditional dishes like testaroli, mesc-ciua, lard paté, prosciutta castelnovese and Pignone sausage, Brugnato cheese, Sarzana sweets and, last but not least, the mussels of La Spezia Gulf.
Riviera di Levante extra-virgin olive oil has obtained the PDO label, Colli di Luni wine (white and red) the DOC label, Calice al Cornoviglio honey the PAT label (Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs). Val di Vara also boasts an autochthonous chicken breed: Gigante nera.

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Alberello Courgette of Sarzana
Features: Alberello di Sarzana courgette is a cultivar with tapered and light green fruits, similar to Genovese courgette for size and shape. Production Area: Piana di Sarzana Curiosities: It was imported in Europe from South America in the 16th century....
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Features: Variety of climbing bean, with a delicate taste and very digestible. It is multicolored, white and veined. It is a bean with the "eye": it is characterized by a grey spot with dark streaks at the germinative juncture. The seed, round and slightly...
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Features: The plant is low, with a fixed growth. The seed is cylindrical and slightly kidney-shaped, about 1cm and a half long, smaller than the classical Cannellino bean. It is white with ice-grey streaks if you look at it against the light. Cannellino...
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Features: Senerìn is a climbing bean, that is characterized by an indeterminate growth. It has a flat pod, 15-20cm long. The ash-colored seed, from where the dialect name senerìn derives, is small, about 1cm long. If used when it is green,...
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Features: Black pea is already characterized from the sprouting stage by a particular violet variegation on the leaves. The plant is very vigorous, and sometimes can exceed the two meters of height. When it is dry, the seed has a size of 3-5 mm, a brown...
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Features: Famous and very good, these borlotti beans - locally called lumè - have a particular "rounded" taste, to the extent that they can be just boiled and flavored with oil. The pod is about 15-18cm long, while the seed, with its classical...
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Pignone Onion
Features: Like for Rossa Genovese, the most common criteria for the classification of onions is based on their cultivation area, in this case the Municipality of Pignone. A spring-summer variety, Pignone red onion (Allium coepa) has an oval shape and...
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Features: It's a round tuber with size going from 5g to 200g. Production Area: Pignone (La Spezia) Curiosities: As far as man can remember, potatoes have always been cultivated in Pignone and, for their quality, they have always been appreciated...
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