looking for mushrooms and visit Garfagnana autumn fairs

By Antico podere De Stefani

Loc. Pradaccio di Sopra - 55036 Pieve Fosciana - Lucca - Italy

Garfagnana has always been synonymous with mushrooms . The woodiness of the valley - all covered with chestnut and beech forests - comes a strong vocation to the spontaneous emergence of all kinds of mushrooms, so any place is good to try and pick up these deligths.

"Porcino" mushroom, wich its different varieties, is the most popular species of fungus but experts can be found in Garfagnana - thanks to the climate, the diversity of terrain and altitude, to the different ground cover - many species of edible mushrooms. In Autumn, then, numerous events related to culture and gastronomy are repeated every weekends in the villages of the valley: there are mycological exhibitions, exposure of photograpy on mycology and mushroom picking. Staying with this offer in the farmhouse "Antico Podere de Stefani" from October 1 to 31, in addition at the discounted price, guests will have avaliable a mycological library (all books of Bruno Cetto and other publications on mushrooms, mycology and gastronomy) and helpful advice and assistance in planning mushrooms hikings in maximum security: territorial maps, information on rules to follow in the collection and the arrangements for granting permission to be able to go to fungi in different parts of the valley.