Aceto Balsamico di Modena cooked grape must and wine vinegar, dense and sweet-and-sour
Cooked grape must and wine vinegar aged in wooden barrels: Aceto Balsamico di Modena has held Protected Geographical Indication status since 2009.
Read more →The village is named after a puddle: lama, in these parts, means a marshy place, and the pond that gave it the name lay where the sports ground was later made. It was drained in 1904. The old core, though, was called Mocogno, and it is painted in a sixteenth-century fresco in the castle of Spezzano.
Antonio Lorenzini worked in the town's registry office. After the eighth of September 1943 he forged the papers of the Colorni family, Jews who were on holiday at La Santona, and put them in a position to reach Rome and stay there until the Liberation. In 2001 Yad Vashem declared him Righteous Among the Nations.
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Near Lama Mocogno
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Lama Mocogno, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.