Porchetta is a savory, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition. The carcass is deboned and spitted or roasted traditionally over wood for at least eight hours, fat and skin still on. In some traditions, porchetta is stuffed with liver and wild fennel, though many versions do not involve stuffing. Porchetta is usually heavily salted and can be stuffed with garlic, rosemary, fennel, or other herbs, often wild. Porchetta has been selected by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policy as a prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (PAT), one of a list of traditional Italian foods held to have cultural relevance.
Porchetta
Porchetta from Luco dei Marsi, Abruzzo
Porchetta, whole and cut in slices, at the Sagra dell'Uva di Marino
A close-up of a porchetta sandwich
Ariccia is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, central Italy, 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Rome. It is in the Alban Hills of the Lazio (Latium) region and could be considered an extension of Rome's southeastern suburbs. One of the Castelli Romani towns, Ariccia is located in the regional park known as the "Parco Regionale dei Castelli Romani".
Ariccia and Vallericcia
View of the historical centre from the Ariccia bridge.
The church of Santa Maria Assunta by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Ariccia Palazzo Chigi, 1826-27.