Pescara: selected activities and experiences!

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Pietranico

Tocco da Casauria | Pescara

Guided tour and tasting at the Toro distillery

Presentation and taste of an Abruzzo story. Visit to the company retracing the different phases of production the famous "Story of Centerba Toro Abruzzo". Visit the company retracing the different production phases of Centerba Toro Presentation of the Toro family with the story of their story.Visit to the distillery and explanation of the various production phases of the "Centerba Toro" liqueur.Tasting of liqueurs with sensorial and organoleptic analysis.The Toro family has always based its bicentenary business in Tocco da Casauria, creating an indissoluble bond with those green, intimate and welcoming places.Since 1817, the pharmacist and apothecary Beniamino Toro "senior" created Centerba Toro, a fine liqueur born from the alchemy of wild and spontaneous herbs, selected and collected by expert hands on the slopes of the "Maiella Madre and Morrone" mountains in Abruzzo.Centerba – whose name derives from “Centum Herbora” or, in dialect “Centerba” – is produced by slow natural infusion in particular containers and in environments free of humidity and temperature changes, without the addition of sugars or flavourings. The liqueur has obtained a characteristic green color with a high alcohol content, and refined aromatic aromas, among which mint predominates.A strong and gentle product, from a good self-respecting Abruzzo native. Initially appreciated by pilgrims and shepherds, it then became known as a real medicine: Centerba Toro was in fact used for its healing characteristics in the Kingdom of Naples during the cholera epidemic of 1884, with Centerba Toro floats leaving every day. from Tocco da Casauria towards the Neapolitan capital.In 1972 Roberto Toro and his son Enrico of F.lli Toro Specialità Centerba founded Enrico Toro d.c., a modern company capable of facing the new challenges of the market and maintaining the same recipe, to which they gave a new "interpretation": a Centerba with a different timbre.In 1998 F.lli Toro closed the old factory and the products were bottled and distributed under license by Enrico Toro d.c.Today it is an artisanal product that is the flagship of the Abruzzo liqueur tradition, appreciated throughout the world. The secret formula is jealously guarded and handed down from father to son for generations: a recipe that evokes the charm of the places, expressing the atmosphere of this land in the most authentic way.

Grappa tasting

€ 15

1 hour and 30 minutes

Pietranico | Pescara

A guided tour of the Palmenti di Pietranico

Throughout the territory of Pietranico there are ancient stone tanks once used for winemaking. Carved directly into the spikes of rocks that emerged from the earth. Inside the tanks, the grapes were pressed and pressed using a rudimentary beam press. The tour of the Palmenti di Pietranico is a circuit created for the visit of ancient basins huge outcropping rocks scattered throughout the territory which, worked with extreme skill, were used as tanks to vinify the grapes directly on the fields. So the farmers brought home only the must, leaving the waste of processing directly in the countryside, avoiding the effort of transporting material that would not have produced wine to the farms and thus fertilizing the same fields. The millstones are one of the best testimonials to understand the very refined level reached by local artisans and the enormous size that the production of fine wines had reached in the area. In the Municipality of Pietranico there is the greatest concentration of millstones dug in the rock present in Abruzzo, located on the west-facing slope dominated by the town. This itinerary is a circuit created for visiting these ancient pools. The tour starts from the village in via Umberto I where the Caprera Bath is currently preserved, recovered after someone had removed it from its original location. On Via Settentrionale, turn right on a downhill asphalt road, at km 0.58 you can visit thetub Mattucci entering a private road (50m). Continuing downhill on asphalt you arrive at a crossroads where you can admire a water collection tank, always carved out of stone (km 0.88). To continue the tour you need to turn right, but first go straight for 100m to visit the Bath Villa Odoardi. On a large and convenient breach you reach km 1.96 where at the crossroads you go right for a 250 m long natural-bottom track that leads to a still uncensored basin; go back along the same track until the breach, turn right and you will arrive at the Tub De Vito (km 2.65). At km 3 you reach the lowest point of the itinerary, abandon the breach and turn left on a track that goes uphill towards the village accompanied by two rows of oaks. At km 3.65, a small 100m hike takes place to the right to visit the Grandonio Bath. Going uphill again, at km 4 you cross an asphalted road and take another short 200m hike to the right to the Marzio Bath located very close to a house and not clearly visible. Return to the crossroads and turn right on a grassy track that leads back to Pietranico in the direction of the maximum slope. Tasting of wine and typical products

Arts and culture Food Tasting

€ 25

1 hour