LABORATORI DI PASTICCERIA

 

It is the pastries and confectionary which make the town an undisputed must as regards the food and wine of the island. Guided by aromas you might find yourself in pastry laboratories, the recipes of delicacies once prepared by nuns in closed convents on the summit remain a secret known by few. The pastries made from almond pastry are typical: the bocconcini (small spheres filled with citron and cinnamon), i belli e brutti (with an irregular shape and aromatized with lemon) the chocolate palline.