The excellences of the Sicans
On the 14th and 15th at Palazzo Adriano
with the first Sicani Expo Olivo
celebrates green gold
Tastings, taste workshops, conferences
live music and many other initiatives
for the first edition of the event
A big party to celebrate green gold. And lay the foundations for an environmentally sustainable and economically profitable future. On Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, the first edition of Sicani Expo Olivo will be held in Palazzo Adriano. Two intense days, with a packed schedule of events in the heart of the beautiful Sican village, complete with live music Saturday evening and Sunday lunchtime.
The nerve center of the event will be Piazza Umberto I, where exhibition booths will be set up and tastings of typical local products will be held, such as, for example, “gidata,” a kind of rustic flatbread prepared with “gidi,” as they call chard in these parts.
The absolute protagonist will, of course, be the extra virgin olive oil, which in Palazzo Adriano is an oil of “high altitude”; the Biancolilla and Nocellara plants from which it is produced are in fact found between six hundred and one thousand two hundred meters above sea level.
The focus of the first Sicani Expo Olivo, as the name of the event suggests, is precisely the olive tree and its cultivation.
“Our attention to this crop is great,” says Lino Cuttonaro, alderman for Agriculture of the Municipality of Palazzo Adriano, a forestry agronomist and a great expert of the area with a PhD on endemic species in the area. “Already in the past, there have been municipal calls for proposals to incentivize the cultivation of olive trees; calls that have allowed us to recover uncultivated and abandoned marginal lands. So far, there are sixteen thousand plants that have donated and there are new calls for further incentives for planting and biodiversity planned. Several, meanwhile, are the farms already in the area, which have diversified their livestock activity, integrating it with the cultivation of olive trees. Our ambitious goal now is to give birth to new companies, create new jobs.”
In line with the European Biodiversity Strategy, the municipal administration of Palazzo Adriano aims to have thirty thousand new native olive trees by 2025. And this is not the only goal of the municipality, which organized this first edition of Sicani Expo Olivo with the local Pro Loco and the youth of the Ingegni association.
“Precisely on the occasion of the first edition of the event,” says Councillor Cuttonaro, “we are aiming for the establishment of a Deco, Municipal Designation of Origin, for our extra virgin olive oil and other typical local products, such as, precisely, wines, meats, cheeses, nuts… Our intention is to make it a quality brand that characterizes the goodness of Palazzo Adriano.
A brand in addition to the area brand Distretto rurale di qualità dei Sicani, to which so many companies in the area already adhere, so that the approach to the protection and promotion of Palazzese excellence is as broad as possible.
As part of the first Sicani Expo Olivo, experts from the University of Palermo will also speak on Saturday afternoon: Tiziano Caruso, director of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences, Vita di Stefano and Pasquale Marino, both from the Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies of the Palermo University. They will talk with them about crops, but also about the nutritional qualities of Sicilian green gold, which not only tastes great but is also very good for you.
Text by Editors
