Agnello di Carmasciano PAT

Fresh lamb meat of the Laticauda and Bagnolese breeds, carefully reared using herbs and hay enriched with the sulphurous fumes of Mefite

These are lambs of the Laticauda and Bagnolese breeds, slaughtered no earlier than forty days and no later than seventy days from birth, sold whole or cut into various cuts. The area is characterized by the presence of lake waters, the Ansanto valley, where during the transhumance in the vicinity of these places stops took place to rest the animals and to market the lambs necessary to improve the native breeds. The particular environmental conditions, characterized by green hills with woods read more

These are lambs of the Laticauda and Bagnolese breeds, slaughtered no earlier than forty days and no later than seventy days from birth, sold whole or cut into various cuts. The area is characterized by the presence of lake waters, the Ansanto valley, where during the transhumance in the vicinity of these places stops took place to rest the animals and to market the lambs necessary to improve the native breeds. The particular environmental conditions, characterized by green hills with woods alternating with large permanent meadows used as pasture, create a unique microclimate particularly suitable for agriculture and livestock breeding. Here the shepherds raise, still with the methods of the centuries-old tradition and in a semi-wild state, the rare Laticauda sheep, a breed that probably comes from a cross between an autochthonous sheep and another coming from North Africa imported into Italy by the Bourbons at the time of Charles III; the breed takes its name from the particular tail which is nothing more than a sort of sac in which fat is accumulated during the food-rich season and then exploited in lean periods to ensure nourishment for the offspring. The Bourbons imported it precisely for these qualities of resistance to lack of water. Even today the shepherds keep their flocks, for most of the year, in the pristine pastures between 600 and 1000 meters above sea level, and only in periods of severe frost do they protect their heads by locking them up in sheepfolds; many pastures have the particularity of being managed for civic and collective use, an ancient form of management from the pre-Roman era that dates back to the Samnites. read less