Rome's favorite pork comes from this hilltop town 25km away. The annual festival is a pilgrimage.
Plan your Italy trip →Porchetta is a whole pig, deboned, stuffed with herbs (rosemary, fennel, garlic, pepper), slow-roasted for 8+ hours until the skin crackles and the meat melts. Sliced into a crusty roll: €4-6 for a sandwich that makes every other pork product in the world seem like a practice run. Ariccia is porchetta's spiritual homeland — the town has made it since at least the 1600s.
Three days of porchetta in every form: sandwiches, platters, in pasta, with beans, fried as bites. The fraschette — Ariccia's traditional wine taverns where you bring your food and they sell you wine — are packed. Porchetta makers from across Lazio compete. The town smells of roasting pork for a 2km radius. It's simultaneously a competition, a party, and an act of worship.
Ariccia's porchetta shops are open daily. The town is worth visiting outside the sagra too — the Chigi Palace (Bernini designed the piazza), the fraschette culture, and the Castelli Romani lake and forest walks. Combine with Castel Gandolfo (the Pope's summer residence, 5 min away) and a wine tasting in Frascati (15 min).
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