Huge Cerignola olive, the most famous of Italian olive.
Since pitting is still rather difficult to obtain on this kind of fruit only whole olives are available on the food market. Bella di Cerignola is a cultivar produce used as a table olive, grown in a limited area of the province of Foggia (Apulia) , in the outskirts of the town of Cerignola , from which it gets the name. The Ecotype, registered on the schedario oleicolo italiano is a genetically distinct geographic variety of the Cerignola Olive. The cultivation of this multiclonal variety dates back to the
Oven dried Black Olives - Ficacci olive da Tavola