The 8a Sagra della Porchetta di Mora Romagnola and the Meeting on Pigs of the Mora Romagnola breed on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October 2012 in Brisighella (RA).
The eighth edition of the Sagra della Porchetta di Mora Romagnola and the Meeting on the Mora Romagnola pigs will take place in Brisighella, in the province of Ravenna, on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October 2012. The arrival of the animals is scheduled for Saturday. 27 at 09.00 at the parking lot adjacent to the Brisighella railway station. Also on Saturday at 10.00 there will be a guided tour at the Fattoria Palazzo di Zattaglia in Brisighella and at 14.30 there will be a technical meeting with the ANAS management at the conference room of the parish of Zattaglia. At 16.00 pm we return to the center of Brisighella with the opening of the COPAF Market Exhibition.
On Sunday 28 October the animal biodiversity fair dedicated to a prized native black pig of this part of the region, the Mora Romagnola, is scheduled. During the day tastings of tasty salami and black pig meats. Also on this occasion, musical entertainment and purchases in the Copaf product market.
Program of the Mora Romagnola Porchetta Festival and Biodiversity Fair:
Saturday October 27 2012
9,00 am - arrival of animals
10,00 am - guided tour by the ANAS expert and the owner, at the Fattoria Palazzo di Zattaglia (via Valletta - Brisighella).
14,30 pm - technical meeting with the ANAS management at the conference room of the parish of Zattaglia.
16,00 - opening of the COPAF market exhibition of typical products and local crafts, exhibition, tasting and sale at the Ugonia park in Brisighella.
From 18,30 pm to 20,00 pm opening of a food stand with typical local products on the theme of the festival, at the Ugonia park in Brisighella.
Sunday October 28 2012
10,00 - opening of the market exhibition of Co.paf typical products and local crafts, exhibition, tasting and sale.
National Meeting on Mora Romagnola pigs.
10,30 am - musical entertainment throughout the day.
18,00 - closing of the event
From 11,30 to 20,00 - food stand opening with typical local products on the theme of the festival.
The Mora Romagnola
335.000 "black pigs" populated the valleys and hills of the Romagna Apennines at the beginning of the 900th century. Only in 1942, in Faenza, did a conference of zootechnicians precisely define the characteristics of the breed and codified the denomination: Mora Romagnola.
Ancient pig, directly derived from the ancestor of many European pigs, the sus celticus, which arrived in these parts with the barbarian invasions in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries AD, adapting perfectly to our habitats, has represented for centuries a foundation of the rural agricultural economy. Suffice it to say that the size of the woods was measured by the number of pigs they were able to feed.
In the second half of the 900th century, socio-economic conditions and above all new production demands, together with the progressive intensification of pig farming, led to a growing and continuous decline in the population of Mora Romagnola. In 1949 there were 22.000 animals, mostly concentrated in the area of the Faenza Apennines, where they resisted as they were used to obtain that splendid meat cross that for many years was the “Fumato di Romagna”.
Unfortunately, the demand for increasingly lean meats and increasingly precocious breeds led the Mora Romagnola to oblivion and almost to its extinction. At the beginning of the 70s it was very rarely heard of in remote farms in the Faenza Apennines where it represented, for romantic breeders, almost a relic of the past.
However, the charm of this breed and the memory of the great quality and taste of the sausages made from it never stopped beating in the hearts of the men of Romagna. One of these, Mario Lazzari di Faenza, at the dawn of the 80s took it into his head to recover this breed and therefore began with passion the search for the last lost specimens.
Today, thanks to him, to the APA of Ravenna, to Copaf and to the other breeders who have been able to appreciate the value of meat and its reason for living in the territorial and cultural context, the Mora Romagnola is safe and begins to be known and widespread. . There are about forty farms in Romagna (about thirty in the province of Ravenna alone) and about 1.500 existing animals.
Press office of the Terre di Faenza Area Company
For information:
Municipality of Brisighella (RA)
Tel.0546 / 81166
Brisighella.org
consorziomoraromagnola.it
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