Giuseppe verdi biography busseto prosciutto

  • Talk to anyone in Busseto about Giuseppe Verdi, who was born five kilometers away in Roncole, and he or she will have a strong opinion about the composer.
  • Busseto is not only famous for culatello because Verdi grew up in a house in Le Roncole which is in the district of Busseto and not very far.
  • But his point of reference and his context were always Busseto and the surrounding area.

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    Slow Tour in Emilia: Giuseppe Verdi’s places

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    Busseto, Roncole, Sant’Agata on the path of the Master

    Northeast / Emilia-Romagna
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    by Patrizio Roversi.

    Welcome to Busseto, Giuseppe Verdi’s hometown. Busseto is a very interesting village, with an old city centre with beautiful palaces, courtyards and squares. A place gets its fascination from its history and from the characters who used to live it. You know, I decided to visit Samoa because Robert Louise Stevenson spent his last years there. Then I visited Hiva Hoa because of Gauguin and the Svalbard Islands because of Amundsen (who passed away there). Giuseppe Verdi spent his life in Busseto and he is still living here thanks to all the places dedicated to him.

    The most important fryst vatten the Verdi Theatre, located in Piazza Verdi, just behind a monument representing the Master. The theatre is a real juvel, looking like a smaller utgåva of the Scala Theatre in Milan

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    Food and Opera in the “Land of Verdi”

    I visitatori della regione italiana dell’Emilia-Romagna visitano solitamente Modena, patria del famoso aceto balsamico; o Parma, casa del pregiato prosciutto e del Parmigiano-reggiano; o Bologna, famosa “capitale culinaria” d’Italia. Ma queste sono grandi città secondo i nostri standard. Questi alimenti sono facilmente reperibili in tutta la regione e avventurarsi in campagna può portare a meravigliose scoperte, sia storiche che culinarie.

    Uno dei nostri posti preferiti da visitare in questa zona, al centro di quello che un tempo veniva chiamato Ducato di Parma e Piacenza, è la cittadina di Busseto. Si trova all’estremità della vasta pianura del fiume Po, uno dei granai agricoli d’Italia. Questa zona è anche, in particolare, la città natale del compositore Giuseppe Verdi.

    I passaggi porticati verso la città lungo Via Roma offrono comfort ombreggiato oltre i negozi, gli appartamenti, i negozi di alimentari e i bar d

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    Busseto, Emilia - the land of Culatello and Verdi

    In 1976 when Pamela Minozzi’s father Angelo started turning local pigs into exquisite cuts of salumi, the most prestigious part of the animal was a delicacy that the food connoisseurs of Emilia-Romagna had kept mostly to themselves for hundreds of years. Not any more, because Culatello di Zibello can now be found on the menus of top Italian restaurants throughout Europe, including for example Locanda Locatelli in London where it’s offered as an antipasto with gnocco fritto.

    With less than 100,000 cuts of this delicious cured pork produced every year, culatello will always be an expensive delicacy that is difficult to find, even in Italy, so it is something not to be missed whenever you’re visiting Parma.

    Pamela and her husband Alberto gave us a tour of their small production facility in Busseto and explained the entire process to us and of course we bought some culatello to bring back to Lucca for