Description
This experience, dedicated to the sense of touch, will take place in untouched nature, surrounded by greenery. It will teach you about silkworms and the ancient and noble art of silk.
Starting with a guided tour of the Silk Museum, set in the beautiful surroundings of Caracciolo Castle, you will have the opportunity to visit the different sections where relics of the history of silk are preserved. You will also find old clothes, damask from Catanzaro, sacred vestments, contemporary raw silk artifacts, as well as the part of the museum dedicated to mulberry, silkworms, natural fibers, and the textile laboratory with four working looms and an exhibition of natural color samples.
You will continue along a nature trail, a path that goes into the heart of a picturesque pine forest with over 50 species of Mediterranean plants.
At the mulberry fields, you will have the opportunity to visit an intensive crop consisting of about 3,500 Kokusò variety plants, spread over an area of more than 1.5 hectares, along with silkworms.
Here in San Floro, a hilly town overlooking the Corace Valley and offering a landscape rich in natural beauty, thousands of silkworms have come back to life after years of inactivity.
By feeding on the freshly picked mulberry leaves, the silkworms revive the alchemy of nature and create silk cocoons, a phenomenon discovered over 4,200 years ago by a Chinese princess.
You’ll feed the silkworms, witness the magic of silk reeling, and be enchanted as the silk thread slips from the cocoons and forms into a skein.
The experience will end with a tasting of local organic products under the canopy of a majestic pine tree more than a century old.
