The medieval remains, the fortress, the exhibition of weapons "Hunters and warriors from stone to steel", the Paolucci naturalistic museum, the alleys, the countryside and the panorama...there are many reasons to visit the medieval town of Offagna.
But on Easter Monday the extra opportunity is given by Easter Monday, a breakfast set up right under the Medieval Fortress. From 10am to 13pm a table is set full of all the traditional Easter Monday delicacies, those that housewives once prepared early in the morning to make the family feel the abundance of the celebration and to whet the appetite with inviting flavors and aromas.
On the long tables appear the spring omelette, the golden cheese cake with pecorino and parmesan added at will in the dough, the famous crescia local, appetizing cured meats and eggs in abundance. All accompanied by good wine from the famous crops of the area.
The eggs that have a special place in what it is reductive to call breakfast are the dyed eggs. These are eggs hardened in boiling water and then painted. Once upon a time the women of Offagna boiled them together with the flowers of a plant that grew spontaneously in the fields: la muscari. Their bright blue color gave a beautiful chromatic effect to the eggs which were then neatly placed in wicker baskets and taken to church to be blessed. Eating them was the last act of the ritual. Today food colors are used to paint them and this Easter Monday there is also a corner dedicated to children, the laboratory Ovi Pinti with everything needed to perpetuate the tradition.
The event is organized with the collaboration of tourist operators, the Offagna Museum Centre, the “Zetesis” association and with the patronage of the Municipality of Offagna.
Carla Virili
