The 10 Best Gift & Specialty Shops in Province of Benevento, Campania

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Bottega "Le Fornaci" was founded in 2004 by Vincenzo Franco and it is located in the splendid "City of Foundation", "City of Ancient Ceramic Tradition" (AiCC) called Cerreto Sannita, a pearl of the Italian Baroque, in the south of Italy. The workroom and the showroom are situated in the "Palazzo S. Antonio", in the same building of the Civic Museum of the "Cerretese" Ceramics. "Le Fornaci" is one of the most well-known "botteghe" of the rich Italian ceramic production. We create artistic, traditional, experimental and author's ceramics, objects of design and furnishings of high quality. The traditional production is the result of a continuous study of materials, techniques and of the wide documents of the eighteenth-century production. Same quality and refinement can be recognized in the modern production, the evolution of the traditional one. We create it by trying out new formal languages, new techniques, using new materials and producing unusual and unexpected contaminations. The name: the furnace is one of the most important instruments of the ceramic processing, where the product lives its last moments of the creation; here, in fact, it is fired at high temperatures, before becoming a new and unique piece of the production. But the furnace is not only a mere instrument, it is the "melting pot of ideas", where inventiveness and creativity meet, fuse and mix together, giving life to new concepts, styles, passions which liven up the artist and come alive in his works.

The Cantina di Solopaca is one of the oldest farmer's cooperative all over the Campania. With its production of more than 120 thousand hectrolites of wine it is set at the first places in the whole regional production. The vineyards are located in a wide area that, starting from Solopaca's territory, involves other 16 neighbouring disctricts, reaching a total planted area of about 1300 hectares. In this territory is grown the Solopaca DOC, the first wine which got the D.O.C. guarantee in 1974. The grown varieties are the Falanghina and the Aglianico, local Sannio Beneventano vines, but also the Greco and the Fiano. In recent years vineyards linked to the tradition have also been rediscovered such as the Coda di Volpe and the Barbera. Solopaca stretches at the Taburno Camposauro Regional Park foot, in the province of Benevento, in an area formerly known as Sannio, ever devoted to the winegrowing. The grown grapes are harvested by traditional methods and brought into the Cantina where, after a careful selection, are made wine and bottled. The enological center is equipped with forefront wine making and bottling tools and with a wine cellar where occurs the red wines refinement. The company i salso equipped with an autoclaves room where the sparkling wines are made. The wide selection of wines, distributed both in Italy and abroad, can meet the different types of consumption, from the daily use to the most sophisticated catering, combining the oldest tradiction and the most modern tecniques.

Place of true culinary art, where you can taste local products of Sannio as cheeses, wines, pasta and more. We also provide over visits to the sacred places of St. Pio bed and breakfasts and restaurants.

Gastarea aims to offer typical preparations of the Campania cuisine and beyond, using totally top quality products, up to offering a detailed selection of typical artisan products from various areas of Italy.