Fagiolo Rosso di Lucca
Lucca Red Bean
One of a whole family of Lucchesia beans, alongside aquila, lupinaro, cannellino di San Ginese, malato and mascherino. Beans run through the local table and the local record alike: the Marchese Antonio Mazzarosa wrote about their cultivation in 1846, and the 1781 Statute of Compito already names beans grown on the rises of the Lucca plain.
Designation
- Certification
- Slow Food Presidium
- Category
- Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed
Where it is made
Lucca, Capannori and Porcari comuni, Lucca province
How it is made
Grown on the most fertile, medium-textured sandy ground of the plain, and around Lucca and Capannori especially on land near the waterways, where beans were traditionally intercropped with maize.