For artichokes, Cilento offers ideal fertile lands. First of all, there is the Tanagro white artichoke, grown in the lands of Pertosa and Auletta, thornless and clear, to be enjoyed raw in thin slices.
And then there is the famous Tondo di Paestum, the first of the great Romanesco family to go into production during the year. Neapolitan farmers began to cultivate it in the land in the shade of the temples of Poseidonia in the Bourbon era and it is now widespread throughout the Sele plain. Every year Gromola, a fraction of Capaccio/Paestum, hosts a festival dedicated to the plant between April and May.
