Bee Day
The beekeepers open to the public to show how the activity is carried out:
the honey collection, in the honey extraction room, and dicovering the secrets of this noble art.
Thereafter a free tasting of honey produced this year will take place.
Honey is a sugary substance produced by bees (Apis mellifera), syrupy, very sweet, golden blond in colour.
The preciousness of honey, in the past, was widely used in medicine to treat digestive disorders and for ointments to be applied to wounds. In ancient Egypt they followed the flowering of plants and moved their hives along the Nile.
The Egyptians appreciated it so much that they deposited it in the tombs of the pharaohs in hermetically sealed jars, so much so that when they were opened, more than 4,000 years later, the honey was perfectly preserved and had not lost its organoleptic properties. Honey is mentioned in many passages of the Bible, in the Koran and in Babylonian literature.
For the Greeks, honey was the food of the Gods and the Olympic deities fed exclusively on nectar and ambrosia.
The Roman people used honey as a food preservative, sweetener, ingredient in sweet and sour sauces and for the preparation of alcoholic drinks such as honey beer or honey wine (mead).
In honey we also find small quantities of vitamins (provitamin, some groups of vitamin B, vitamin C, D and E).
