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Traditional sweets of Lucca can not only whet your blood sugar
but also your curiosity in tasting them if you come in Lucca
I recommend you to taste them and also where to buy them
Buccellato of Lucca
Buccellato of Lucca is a delicacy of this city
The Traditional Sweets of Lucca Buccellato is perhaps the oldest
Because it seems that at the time of the Romans like bread for the
soldiers in the shape of donut
Citizens says ” Who comes in Lucca and doesn ‘ t eat Buccellato
it is as if it had never been there”
Forno Taddeucci here you can buy it in Piazza San Michele
Befanini what are they?
Befanini are simple let’s say they are simple cookies made of shortcrust
pastry they are prepared during the post-Christmas holidays in particular for
the Epiphany
They are enriched with small drops of colored sugar
However every family has their own recipe to try preparing them at home
Here you can try the recipe :
The shapes can be different in the shape of animals flakes wheels or in shape of
Befana Christmas Christmas Tree or Reindeer
Cake with Becchi Tradition
Tradition brings Torta dei becchi as a typical recipe of the town
her birth is due to santa Zita who thanks to a miracle dedicated to her on April 27th
She is celebrated and this sweet made with chard is produced in the bakeries
It is like pie with vegetables with the edge made like a beak but in a body of
shortcrust pastry
Santa Zita has become the protector of bakers and housewives in Lucca
