Recco is a small town to the south-east of Genova. It is known for its Water Polo team, and for it’s delicious focaccia. I have eaten focaccia di Recco several times now, but this time, it was the festival of the foacaccia in Recco, so we went there to check it out.
Usually in this region, when it is the day of a food, there is free food given at an abundant rate. This was the second such activity in two weeks (after the Camogli Fish Festival). In Recco there were two periods when free focaccia was given: one in the morning until 12:00 and the other one from 15:00. Since we were very lazy this Sunday, we did not manage to wake up early enough to reach the morning run. No matter, we decided to go to Camogli and then maybe on the way back, in the afternoon we will go to Recco for the second round of “focacciata”.
The beach in Camogli was full of people. We barely managed to find a place to stay. A particularity of the beaches here in the ligurian coastline is the abundance of rocks. Camogli beach is not different from this. Although the rocks/pebbles on the beach are not sharp, one still needs to have some shoes to walk around. Another exciting feature is that the rocks tend to get VERY hot these days. Nevertheless we had a great time, swimming around and enjoying the sun.
At around 16:30 we decided to visit Recco. The focacciata was already going on, with huge lines waiting for the free goodies :). There were different places where focaccia was given, every hour this place was changing: one hour here, one hour there, depending on which local bakery’s turn was to serve the people.
The good thing about this, was that we could try many different bakeries and eat as much focaccia as we wanted (one could even get in line twice at the same bakery).
The focaccia itself was delicious as always. It is not as thick as usual focaccia, it is crispier and it has lots of cheese in it. Absolutely magnificent, if anyone comes to this region it is good to know: the really good focaccia is in Recco 🙂 …
Hi László,
Thank you for sharing your experience at this particular festa. To make a long story short, I love these sort of sagra/festa events, and am looking to add more links to my list of 100 italian food celebrations. Would you mind if I added you to my list? (it’s only a drop-down style set in my sidebar)
I’m making note of the date for next year!
No problem, & thanks for reading 😉
Thank you!! 🙂