Five traditional specialties from Bologna and the metropolitan area have won the “De.Co.” brand, the municipal designation of origin. They are the art of the stonemason, the Budrio ocarina, the artisan puppet, the balanzoni and the pink variant “la Balanzona”.
An ad hoc resolution was approved in recent days.
It is recognition for five characteristic activities rooted in tradition, craftsmanship and local cultural heritage. It concerns the art of the stonemason and sandstone sculpture, a thousand-year-old knowledge typical of the Reno Valley. Then there is the Budrio ocarina, the small terracotta flute still created today with mastery and passion, the puppet as an artisanal artefact, part integral part of the puppet theater of the Bolognese school and the balanzoni, the tortelloni wrapped in the typical green pastry and from which the pink variant Balanzona is born, for a project in support of the anti-violence center of the Italian Women’s Union section of Bologna which combines tradition and solidarity in a single gesture.
The establishment of the Municipal Designation of Origin has the objective of enhancing and promoting territorial resources as a collective heritage, preserving the knowledge and traditional activities that best represent the identity of Bologna and its metropolitan area. The De.Co. register in just a few years it has collected 17 typical products, 5 traditional knowledge and 36 producers and promoters of the names already assigned.
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