Homemade bread festival in Valderice

Il month of August in Valderice, 8 km from Trapani in the Libero Municipal Consortium in western Sicily, is dedicated to one of the tastiest and most fragrant products of Sicilian tables: the homemade bread from Valderice, celebrated with a large festival of 3 days, during which it is possible to taste bread, sandwiches, panelle, but also sphinxes, the local pancakes, and cappidduzzi, sweets filled with ricotta. A menu for true gourmands, prepared with genuine and tasty ingredients, to delight the palates of all guests.

All projects Valderice homemade bread festival there will also be a lot of fun, thanks to the music: the event hosts a dancing evening, with group dances, ballroom and Latin American to entertain dancers and spectators, in a lively atmosphere that will also offer you all the taste of Sicily. Furthermore, the evenings of the Festival will be enlivened by concerts and cabaret.

Il traditional homemade bread di Valderice is the protagonist of the tastings offered by the numerous stands in the village, after the blessing of the bread, in a fascinating location, surrounded by greenery and overlooking the blue sea.

The irresistible tomato pizzas, homemade loaves of bread and many other rich dishes await you at the Festival of Valderice, to get to know and rediscover the taste of the Sicilian tradition.

The history of the Valderice Homemade Bread Festival

The Valderice Homemade Bread Festival was born in 2001, promoted by the Fico Cultural Association, which organizes the bread fair in Contrada Fico every year.
THEfood and wine event, which reveals itself from edition to edition increasingly full of surprises and entertainment, is part of a local project for the revaluation of the territory through the promotion of the original flavors of this land: all the guests of the festival, locals and tourists, are thus invited to get to know the most authentic flavors of Sicily, in the setting of a country with a strong peasant tradition, where the structures of the past, used for the cultivation of the fields, are still visible.

When the Valderice homemade bread festival takes place

From 2 4 to August, every evening starting at 21:00 Valderice offers you fun and flavour, to be enjoyed all together.

Where the Valderice homemade bread festival takes place

Valderice is located about 8 km from Trapani. The municipality overlooking the sea hosts the festival of homemade bread in the Fico district, fraction of the country not far from the center.

What to do during the Valderice Homemade Bread Festival

Those who want to taste Valderice's homemade bread can organize a stay in the village in August, a perfect period to also enjoy all the other beauties of Sicily: the sea, of course, but also the mountains and the ancient villages, they find numerous in this area of ​​western Sicily.

In Valderice you can discover the historic center with its monuments and the surroundings of the town: the Excelsior mill, early XNUMXth-century Art Nouveau building, active until the XNUMXs for milling wheat and now completely renovated and used as a Museum with ancient work tools; the Arco del Cavaliere, or rather the remains of a small country chapel which bear witness to the ancient devotion of the peasants; there Church of Christ the King, modern building dating back to the XNUMXs and the Sanctuary of Maria Santissima della Misericordia, built to pay homage to Our Lady of Mercy after a miraculous event.

In Valderice there are numerous green spaces, such as the Nino Croce pine forest, with the adjoining theater and the Villa Betania, built around the middle of the XNUMXth century.

A place not to be forgotten, for those arriving in Valderice, is the Tonnara of Bonagia, a Norman watchtower, which is located in the marine hamlet of Bonagia, right at the small port: the building, renovated and used as a museum, houses tools and boats that were used for the slaughter of tuna, an important activity for the economy of the island.

Moving away from Valderice, you can also discover other small but surprising centres, such as Custonaci just 10 km away, where you can visit the Sanctuary of the Madonna with paintings by Cannamela or the Grotta Mangiapane with the remains of a village dating back to Neolithic times; heading south, you meet the small village of Paceco, whose territories were the scene of some of the events of the Risorgimento and today offers its visitors not only some beautiful historical monuments in the center, such as the seventeenth-century Church of SS. Crocifisso, but also the natural beauties of the Trapani and Paceco Salt Pans Reserve.

Those who love the mountains will find in Mount Erice, at 840 above sea level, the perfect place for an excursion or trekking, immersed in the splendid mountain landscape.

Finally, don't forget to spend at least one day at Trapani: from here, you can visit the center or embark for the Egadi Islands.

How to get to Valderice

Valderice, in the Free Municipal Consortium of Trapani, can be easily reached by car and train, as it is less than 10 km from Trapani.

Who arrives in the car, can take the A29 Alcamo-Trapani to the Trapani exit, and then continue another 8 km to the center, while those traveling on the train, can book a ticket direct to Trapani Station and continue by bus or shuttle to Valderice.