SICILIAN NOUGAT & CROCCANTE - FIASCONARO CASTELBUONO

The story of the Fiasconaro family starts in Castelbuono, a small town in Sicily’s Madonie Mountains Park, in the Fifties, and it eventually remains in Castelbuono. This is where the brothers Fausto, Martino and Nicola decided to maintain the administrative and production headquarters –the mind and the heart- of their exciting adventure.

This story was originally started in 1953 by their father, Mario Fiasconaro, who over time managed to turn his small ice-cream parlour, located in the main square of the town, into a thriving business in the field of confectionery and catering.

Carefully selected ingredients, favoring the typical productions of Sicily, from Sicilian pistachio to Sicilian blonde oranges, from Modica chocolate to apricots, from Sicilian almonds to the precious Madonie Manna, a uniqueness in the world coming from protected ashes trees, they represent the real key to understanding all the different lines of Fiasconaro doves.

Castelbuono in the Madonie is the cradle of Fiasconaro.

The beauty of the Madonie must be sipped as you do with a fine wine, to grasp all its nuances in a multisensory journey that goes from the scent of oregano from petraia, to the scent of mushrooms and wet bark up to the sirocco of the vineyards. And then off, landscapes as far as the eye can see: from the Tyrrhenian coasts to the suggestive woods dotted with cork oaks, chestnuts, manna ash trees, holly cores, up to the ski slopes, passing through the medieval streets and high mountain paths. Breathtaking landscapes, always different and luxuriant, expression of the naturalistic and historical heritage of one of the hidden and perhaps less known gems of Sicily.

The Madonie are all this and much more, in the name of a "slow travel" tourism that enhances local traditions while maintaining a strong international vocation. A microcosm of forty thousand hectares which boasts the greatest biodiversity in the Mediterranean and which gives life to a cornucopia of unique products: from the Manna delle Madonie, to the Provola, to the blond orange of Isnello, to the Badda bean, to the salt of Petralia Soprana, to the Sicilian black bee thistle honey, origanum vulgare, without forgetting Basilisk mushrooms, Polizzi Generosa hazelnuts, oil from the native Crastu cultivar.

TRADITIONAL MANNA NOUGAT

Little MANNA nougat wrapped like sweets to delight everyone palate with this Sicilian uniqueness.

SICILIAN TRADITIONAL SMALL NOUGAT

Traditionally produced without our old recipe using Sicilian typical ingredients such as almonds, honey bee, brown and refined sugar, along with a touch of Pistachio, all wrapped like little delicious sweets.