The art of weaving ears of wheat for baskets in Cerrate Abbey – SAL06

2h00  from 2 people    from €69 per person  on request  on request  Italian, English

Included: visit to the Abbey, meeting with a basket maker, basket workshop
Excluded: transfer, lunch, dinner, drinks, monument entrances, personal expenses
Location: Cerrate

Immersed in a wonderful landscape of olive groves, fruit trees and cultivated areas, once a Byzantine rite monastery inhabited by Italo-Greek monks, then an agricultural production center specialized in the processing of olives, the Abbey of Cerrate gives a fascinating story of its dual soul as a place of worship and historic farmhouse. In a land like Salento, familiar with the cultivation of cereals, the stalks of wheat ears have been used over the centuries to make the weaving of bags and baskets. A manual art that very few practice today, but whose tradition is very ancient. The meeting with the basket weavers will reveal the history of a craft that is now almost forgotten.