028: Terlizzi — a foodie paradise

From amazing butchers to delicious cheeses to insanely fresh fruit and vegetables, you'll find it all in Terlizzi, Italy.  Being our "hometown," it holds a special place in our hearts here at Villa Cappelli. In this episode, we'll take you a short tour of this charming town and what makes it so special — and it's not just the food.

Topics we cover:

The status of our extra virgin olive oil shipment for this year

Whey have to ship our 500 mL bottle's labels all the way from Japan

What people call their "country homes" here in Italy

The national graffiti contest featured as your enter Terlizzi

How Italians always manage to save money

How Terlizzi is known as the city of flowers, being the largest fresh cut flower producer in all of Italy

The rules of the Living Villa Cappelli drinking game:

every time Paul corrects Steven, you have to take a drink

every time Paul contradicts himself, you have to chug your whole drink

Terlizzi is also known for its ceramics, which we use for some our extra virgin olive oil

How the town is also famous for its butchers

People shop individual butcher shops, not from the supermarket

Paul has a butcher for each different meat we want — beef, pork, horse, or chicken

How Paul also has different vendor with a stand alone shop for different fruits and vegetables, and even bread

How the cheese shops are amazing here, but they tend to have only local cheeses

The amazing fresh mozzarella you can find in town

And the local stracciatella and burrata

Our recipe for Caprese salad

The fresh ricotta cheese that's also amazing

The clock tower of Terlizzi, which is the largest back light clock tower in Europe after Big Ben

The amazing tree-lined street that surrounds the old town that used to be the moat of the old town

The medieval old town of Terlizzi

Our amazing rib recipe

Why the church in this area, from the 1700s, is still called the "new church"

Why you can find pieces of the old church all over town

The beautiful area in Terlizzi where every night people take their passeggiata

Santa Maria di Nuova, the other church in town and the amazing frescoes of Joseph and his multi-colored coat. Check out his story here or here.

To check out the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat here

How Terlizzi once belonged to Monti Carlo

The different spots where you can get married in Terlizzi, and how Villa Cappelli is one of them

How Terlizzi and Sovereto, a suburb of Terlizzi, were named one of the most beautiful places in Italy

The sheep paths surrounding the area, including right by Villa Capppelli

Paul's Facebook group Terlizzi, USA

The new Facebook group Paul will be starting with pictures of properties you can buy in the area