Diamante is a picturesque town situated in the South of Italy and is the ' home ' home of the Festival of Chilli Pepper Festival is famous in the world.
Up to date back-up, every September every year the picturesque town is located in southern Italy back joyfully and full excitement Chili Festival (Chilli Pepper Festival). The event attracted people in the crowd around the region Calabria and the tourists, lasted for four days from September 10 to 14.
The highlight of the Festival is the chili contest to find out who eat chili peppers best of 10 contestants. Contest winners Maurizio Capocchiano humor said his mother had smeared chili up knob company of milk to weaned him. Last year, Capocchiano won the first prize with a time of 560 grams diva Lilli gulp-a type of peppers for spicy hot for Italy and commonly known with the nickname "kid". The dream of a United Kingdom number-count is like to reach new record year-800 grams diva Lilli.
Capocchiano clearly has an endless fascination with the peppers. He even ate them with tomato sauce or pasta's to on drinking a cup of tea.
This year, Capocchiano and 9 other competitors will take part in a race to find a new Crown for people who like to eat chili. The players are eating spicy, ever experienced through participation in local competitions. Only the best new to attend in Diamante.
10 finalists will be the jury of the same doctors closely monitor when they began to gulp the grams chopped hot peppers. To throat irritation burns not the contestants are only allowed to use the bread and olive oil to cool down. Water is allowed to be used in the competition. The peppers are provided in the contest is the kind of red and green peppers, freshly picked directly from the nearby fields by women in Diamante.
The winner will receive the prize is a free week rest in the hotel for 2 persons and have people seeing off at the airport. "You will be welcomed like a rock star way," Capocchiano said of the gift for the winner.
To win by Capocchiano-you must be a person with a cold head and stomach are made from steel and gaming. "You will feel the tongue and throat burning, burning Burns constantly. But the hardest part is you have to make your stomach adapt those spices spicy for this. "
Besides the competition, the Festival also includes a gastronomic fair-where to display the fresh peppers and left the jewelry was inspired chili or cooking programs, fashion streets, music ... In addition, the Festival will take place in a beauty poll. Hottest woman in town was crowned Miss Chilli.
In the day of the Festival, the city's walls and houses are decorated with the kind of colorful peppers green, red, yellow are strings into strings. According to local tradition, this helps them avoid bad things and repel evil.
For Italy, the peppers in addition to treat colds, bronchitis also is "the Prince of the potion". They also sell the drug doses are made from Chili Peppers and herbs that are used for is "stimulating strength in story blanket pillow" and "increase the libido."
