Share your Monti Prenestini experience with loved ones; if you’re from Rome, bring back free range beef from local farms. Headed further away? Bring a taste of Italy home through bottles of local wine, olive oil, mosciarella (smoked chestnuts), or giglietti. For something less perishable, share the views of the Monti Prenestini in Latium Vetus: biodiversità e paesaggio del Lazio antico.
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FREE RANGE BEEF OR FRESH CHEESE
If you’re here for a day trip, bring home enough free range beef or fresh cheese from a local farm to share with your friends and family. Azienda Agricola Salvati David is known throughout the region for its homemade ricotta.
LOCAL WINES
Stop by Il Primo Passo in Castel San Pietro Romano to see Matteo and order some of the best wines the Lazio region has to offer, all sourced from small-scale biodynamic farms nearby.
OLIVE OIL
Many places in Monti Prenestini offer small-batch olive oil that allows you to incorporate the taste of Monti Prenstini in meals for weeks to come. Depending on the season, the Santuario della Mentorella outside of Guadagnolo also sells olives at its small table next to the church.
MOSCIARELLA
The tradition of smoking the chestnuts harvested from groves outside of Capranica Prenestina historically allowed them to be stored for use throughout the year and has now earned them a prestigious Slow Food designation for the preservation of a hyper-local heritage flavor of Italy. Find some to bring home in several establishments throughout town, including Il Bar Glicine, just off the roundabout.
GIGLIETTI
Monti Prenestini’s other Slow Food is the giglietto, a fleur-de-lis-shaped cookie brought back from France by local chefs in the 17th century. After trying your own hand at making them in the Forno Fiasco, bring home a bag to share with friends as while you regale them with stories about your adventure.
LATIUM VETUS: BIODIVERSITA E PAESAGGIO DEL LAZIO ANTICO
Looking for something less perishable? Check out Latium Vetus: biodiversità e paesaggio del Lazio antico, a stunning book with text in Italian and English, showcasing photographs of the Lazio region, with an entire chapter dedicated to the Monti Prenestini. The author and photographer, Libero Middei, grew up nearby and is the director of the newly renovated naturalistic museum in Capranica Prenestina.
