Prefecture of Ileia

 

You can buy

Tablespoon sweets (striped venus fruit), olives, olive oil and pickles, from Pyrgos. Feta cheese from Lampeia (Divri). From Varda and Manolada, melons and watermelons. From Gastouni and Amaliad, dairy products, chylopites (Greek pasta, like tagliatelle), trachanas, but also pottery. Wine, from Kakovatos.  

You must taste

In the mountainous parts of Ileia, dry salt pork (tsigarida). Cock with pasta or chylopites, beefy tongue and striped venus fruit with yoghurt, in Central Ileia. In Myrtia, hare or wild rabbit with onion-tomato sauce (stifado) or stuffed in the oven, stuffed pork-roll.

 

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