Forgotten Fruits Festival
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Forgotten Fruits Festival

04 Oct 2025
Alliste — Lecce (075)

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Edition 2025 — Forgotten Fruits

The 2025 edition of the Forgotten Fruits Festival took place in Felline di Alliste, in lower Salento, in early October. The event showcased ancient fruits from the Salento farming tradition—jujubes, arbutus berries, pomegranates, service berries, and carobs—through tasting stalls, local product markets, and social gatherings dedicated to rediscovering the flavors of the past.

In the 2025 edition, the Forgotten Fruits Festival brought the village of Felline, a hamlet of the municipality of Alliste, to life with a day dedicated to the ancient fruits of Salento. The focus was on the forgotten flavors of the Apulian rural tradition: jujubes, arbutus berries, pomegranates, service berries, azaroles, and carobs, rediscovered through tasting stalls and small markets selling local products.

The event, part of the autumn calendar of festivals in Alliste and Felline, also offered a moment to highlight the biodiversity and rural culture of the area, in the simple and convivial atmosphere typical of the villages of lower Salento.

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Centro storico di Felline

Via Fosso, 2, 73040 Alliste

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