The Best Citrus Fruit In Italy?

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What is the best fruit and in what part?
I love the lemons you get in South of France right over the border in and around Nice , I have had the chance to taste clementine's from someone's garden in Sardinia, small, sweet and very juicy.
But what would be the best fruit and from what part?
Are tangerine's best from Sardinia?
Where do you find the perfect lemon? And how about orange's?
 
For me the Amalfi coast lemons are the best! And they are giant! Like football (American football that is ;)) sized. I like the little clementines and mandarins from Sicily too.
 
Best oranges and tangerines in Italy come from Sicily, tarocco orange and tardivo tangerine.
Best italian lemon comes from the coast of Amalfi, south of Naples, and is called sfusato.
 
I wouldn't know which ones are the best and where they come but Tangerines seem to be a thing that family look for when they come to visit us here in South Africa.
 
I dont know too much about the citrus fruits of Italy. However, I imagine their lemmons to be the best because Italians are famous for limmoncello. It is a very smooth lemony drink made with fresh lemmons. The Amalfi Coast is famous for giat lemmons, the size we rarely see elsewhere.
 
I would have to go with lemons too. I walked through the mountains towards Amalfi and wandered around the lemon trees there and they are truly fresh and very large. The good thing is that they are cheap, fresh and plentiful, especially in the South, that's why lemon drinks are readily available and are also good to cool the body down. Lemon sorbet and lemonade (fresh) are refreshing when it's hot touching 100 degrees.
 
A paradise of citrus is how I always think of Italy too: a place where ice-cold limoncello is sipped from tiny glasses on piazzas, and everything from ricotta cake to osso bucco is enlivened with zest. For ages the only citrus in Italy – or indeed in Europe – was the citron, or cedro, which was brought to Calabria by the Jews around AD70. It would be another 800 years before sour lemons arrived with the Arab invasion of Sicily. Italian citrus is full of surprises. Attlee, a gardening expert who regularly leads tours to Italy, sees and tastes many weird fruits on her travels. In Tuscan gardens there are fingered lemons “like yellow hands”, a throwback to the Renaissance fashion among rich families for collecting rare mutations of citrus trees. The mutations continue in modern Italian citrus farms. Attlee visits a farm in Liguria where there are pink grapefruits and green limes; golden citrons and sweet lemons; navel oranges and multiple varieties of mandarin. Sometimes the fruits cross-pollinate, creating still more varieties.
 
I don't know much about citrus fruits either :P When I buy them (lemons, oranges, tangerines... ecc.), I just go to the store and pick some up! I rarely look at where they come from, I should do that more often!

However, from what my friends tell me, the best source for citrus fruits is Sicily!
The climate is favorable, there's no doubt about that, but they're also good quality fruits!
For instance, there's an ice cream shop in my town, that makes the best ice cream ever! Usually, I only choose a few flavors I prefer (nutella, nuts, cream... the usual ones). Well, I just found out that their lemon ice cream is to die for! They bring in lemons from Sicily and use only those to make it. If they can't get lemons from over there, they just don't make the lemon ice cream. So, when it'll get warmer, I know what's the first ice cream flavor I'll try!
 
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