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Why St. Ferdinand

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© Raffaele Gaetano

San Ferdinando is in a strategic position to discover Calabria. Lying on the Tyrrhenian coast and full of potential, with a recent but intense history, small but with great challenges ahead, it is the mirror of a true and welcoming south, capable of always renewing itself and in spite of everything.

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Take a seat in one of the small restaurants in San Ferdinando and have fried “surici” prepared or a plate of spaghetti with freshly caught fish accompanied by “ninnata” omelette or ricotta meatballs with mint and wild fennel or grilled aubergine “parmigiana” or from a tomato salad with the exquisite red onion of Tropea or from fried anchovies and prawns or from stewed bonitos or from stockfish with olives or from courgette flower fritters. Don’t miss visiting one of the many local dairies to taste the “hot” mozzarella, that is freshly made, and various types of fresh and aged cheeses made with milk that comes from Monte Poro. If you then have the opportunity to be invited to lunch by a local, you can taste triumphs of vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, chillies, aubergines) 100% self-produced, salami and wine. Always present at the end the bitters packaged by the landlady: licorice, almond, limoncello, mandarinetto, bergamot. You will be able to tell us!


© Raffaele Gaetano


The Thursday morning market in San Ferdinando is a riot of sounds, colors and smells. There you will have the opportunity to discover what this land offers and to discover the words and dialectal meanings of the typical products by conversing with the local farmers (did we already mention that the San Ferdinando’s people are very welcoming?). If it’s time, then, you can taste the first clementine of the season or hear with the scent of bergamots and other citrus fruits or have them explain everything about the green and yellow kiwis or admire the red hot and chili peppers.

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