If last weekend all eyes were on the sky of San Miniato thanks to the kite festival that has colored the Tuscan town every year since 1968, from today the protagonist becomes the land thanks to the inauguration of MuTart, the Truffle Museum of the San Miniato Hills. That of San Miniato and the 29 municipalities between the provinces of Pisa and Florence is a generous treasure chest, which produces truffles twelve months a year, unique in the world for the most prized one, the white Tuber Magnatum Pico.
Inside you know all the secrets of the precious delicacy and the tradition of hunting and extraction, which has been proclaimed a UNESCO heritage site for some years: from the spade, an indispensable tool of the truffle hunter, to the dog, the incomparable half-breed of San Miniato. Moreover, San Miniato is the home of a true record truffle, the historically largest one ever found and one of the very few over 2 kg, all born in the woods of the San Miniato hills: the 2,520 kilogram one found in 1954 by Arturo Gallerin from San Miniato called "Il Bego" and then which was then donated to the President of the United States Eisenhower by a merchant from Alba.
After months and months of study, research and work, the museum based in via IV Novembre 20 is available to the citizens and to the many tourists and pilgrims who flock to San Miniato all year round to enjoy its beauties: from the Rocca to the Via Francigena to the woods who jealously guard these extraordinary truffles.
The MuTart was made possible thanks to the contribution of the Tuscany Region and the North West Tuscany Chamber of Commerce, who wanted to convincingly support the idea of the San MiniatoPromozione Foundation, the organization that every year in November organizes the eagerly awaited San Miniato White Truffle Market Exhibition.