All set in Agerola for “Taste the potato 2015”

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Ten days and a few hours. So much is missing at the ribbon cutting of the 13th edition of “Potato Festival” of Agerola, in the province of Naples, which dominates by the Lattari the Amalfi Coast.

To host the festival, which will take shape Friday, August 14, starting at 20, the Borgata Santa Maria, where you can taste a slew of themed dishes: La Manna from starter to tubettoni with potatoes and smoked cheese flakes passing dumplings for the dairyman, cup pork with baked potatoes and sweet “graffe”. All washed down with wine from the village. With the ability of the participants to take home also tasty gastronomy awards or souvenirs provided by commercial operators in the area.

Will handle the path of “Taste the potato”, notes of itinerant group Cantori of Amalfi and at 22, big live with free admission, which will see on stage the famous singer Swiss Paolo Meneguzzi.

Saturday, August 15, however, the festivities will begin at 9 am with a performance by the whole band “City of Agerola”, to continue to 10 with Mass. At 19.30, the wooden statue of Our Lady of the Assumption, housed in the medieval church of Santa Maria La Manna, will be carried in procession, followed by a solemn Eucharistic celebration and a colorful fireworks show.

At 20.30, the green light again with good food “salsicciata” in the square accompanied by chips, wine and pastries of the village and, by 21, grand finale with the show live by Viviamo la Musica.