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Rieti's Underground
Greccio
Santuario di Fonte Colombo
Centro Storico di Rieti
Lago del Salto
Tenuta La Tacita
Teatro Flavio Vespasiano
Monte Terminillo
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Mura di Rieti
The hottest ticket in town: Chilli pepper festival kicks off in Italy
(31 Aug 2018) LEADIN:
An international chilli pepper festival is proving to be the hottest ticket in town in Riete, Italy.
Organisers hope the eighth edition of the event will boost the region's economy, wrecked by the 2016 earthquake that killed almost 300 people.
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It's the hottest ticket in town. The 8th International Chilli Pepper Festival is underway in the town of Riete, nestled in the heart of Italy.
Around 120 stands are crowding the town's squares, ready to welcome thousands of visitors to the five-day event.
Organisers say there are about 500 varieties of capsicum annuum (chilli peppers) to try.
In Rieti, chilli peppers are not just a fruit, they're also a method of reviving the town 's local economy, wrecked by the 2016 earthquake in central Italy that destroyed nearby Amatrice.
The town is famed for being at the centre - or navel - of Italy, there's even a navel-shaped stone monument in one of its squares.
Leonardo Tosti, vice president of Rieti's General Federation Commerce and Tourism, is optimistic about the festival's economic impact.
From 2017 to 2018, we have relaunched the fair, which boasts very important figures for this area, he says.
We have a very high number of visitors, so hotels and restaurants are always fully booked.
Rieti has also developed its own hybrid chilli - named 'Sabina,' after the central Italian region.
By creating a hybrid between the Calabrian Diavolicchio (Little Devil) and the Brasil, from Brasil, we have produced the Sabino, explains Tosti.
It is a chilli that has grown very well in our territory, so we are trying to have it planted in local farms to initiate a production along the entire value chain.
But it's not just for spicy food. Some doctors claim it's healthy too.
Capsaicin, an active component of chilli peppers, is said to have analgesic and anti-bacterial properties.
The important news in the medical field has been the discovery of the antioxidant properties of chillies, says Basilio Battisti, director of internal medicine and the diabetology ward at Rieti's hospital.
The human body's metabolic oxidation is at the basis of today's most frequent degenerative diseases, from atherosclerosis to cancer.
I'm not saying that chillies and capsaicin can prevent tumours, but as all foods that can help in prevention, these also are surely useful.
Of course, many visitors here aren't concerned about the health benefits, they're interested in the spicy taste.
There are several international stands at this year's event, including representatives from Hungary, Mexico and Vietnam.
We decided to take a part at this fair because it is an international fair, not only for hot chilli, also for different chillies and pepper, and also for food, says Nguyen Duc Thanh from the Vietnam's Rome embassy.
So, we decided to take part because this is already becom(ing) more popular and famous in the world.
For Rieti, hot pepper and black chilli show, and also for food from different countries, and from Italy, of course.
If visitors aren't satisfied with the various dishes on display, they can learn to make their own.
At the event's show cooking corner, chefs demonstrate how to prepare various chilli-based creations.
They're assisted by students from the Amatrice Hotel Management School, forced to move to Reiti after their classrooms were turned to rubble by the 2016 earthquake.
Chef Fabrizia Venturi says she puts chillies in just about anything - from pasta to chocolate cake.
In small doses, says Venturi.
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