Conca dei Marini, with its history of maritime centre of the Republic, preserves important material and immaterial cultural witnesses diverted by these contacts. It is important the manufacturing of palm-tree leaves. Every year, since centuries, on the occasion of Palm Sunday, local women weave, the most soft parts of palms, in complicated baskets or vertical sheaves which reproduce crosses or simple gold yellow embroideries.

These works are preserved in the dark till the celebration during which they are blessed and distributed in houses. This element, together with the gastronomic one, represented by sfogliatella, which is the most characteristic product, reveals the mix of cultural factors developed in this place. On the one hand there is manual skill, on the other cake ingredients (according to the tradition the sfogliatella has been invented by local nuns of S. Rosa Monastery) which together remind us Mediterranean places atmospheres, which had been reached by boats from Conca during ancient times.

Conca dei Marini, with its history of maritime centre of the Republic, preserves important material and immaterial cultural witnesses diverted by these contacts. It is important the manufacturing of palm-tree leaves. Every year, since centuries, on the occasion of Palm Sunday, local women weave, the most soft parts of palms, in complicated baskets or vertical sheaves which reproduce crosses or simple gold yellow embroideries. These works are preserved in the dark till the celebration during which they are blessed and distributed in houses. This element, together with the gastronomic one, represented by sfogliatella, which is the most characteristic product, reveals the mix of cultural factors developed in this place. On the one hand there is manual skill, on the other cake ingredients (according to the tradition the sfogliatella has been invented by local nuns of S. Rosa Monastery) which together remind us Mediterranean places atmospheres, which had been reached by boats from Conca during ancient times.