The truffle tour between Montepiano and Serra del Garbo

Basilicata is a treasure chest of truffles. One realises how generous the forests, especially those of Montepiano, Serra del Garbo and Accettura, are in this autumn season, as one goes in search of the delicious tubers, amidst oaks, Turkey oaks and downy oaks, in the Sauro valley with Franco Mario Belmonte and his dogs. Also an expert in herbs and spices, a profound connoisseur of the history of local brigandage, going past the sandstone blocks in the bed of the Gorgoglione Fiumara, Belmonte in his Truffle Treks succeeds in establishing a relationship of great empathy and spontaneous harmony with these virginal landscapes.