Morra: chestnuts and unique frescoes

“Three days to taste the chestnuts in all ways and combinations possible. The valuable product is to Morra, a beautiful village of little more than two hundred inhabitants on the border with Tuscany, halfway between Citta di Castello and Cortona. Here there was the road linking the capital tifernate through the woods to the nearby Val di Chiana.

The Chestnut Festival will enliven the village 23 to 25 October. It will be enriched, as usual, from exhibitions, games and live music. Chestnuts, taste and traditional recipes: the chestnuts will be offered also with honey, harvested in the period of flowering chestnut trees and able to give the product a distinctive flavor and a particular color.

Morra is worth visiting mainly because it is a must for all art lovers. Not far from the town is in fact the Oratory of St. Crescentino, veritable treasure trove of beauty, which inside holds a cycle of frescoes by Luca Signorelli among which a Flagellation and Crucifixion along with other works attributed to the school of the artist from Cortona”.

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