If you’ve had the chance to spend Easter in Italy, you’ll know that settimana santa (holy week) is taken seriously. The religious holiday is marked up and down the country with street processions and devotional ceremonies in the lead-up to Easter Sunday, or Domenica della Resurrezione. Given Italy’s mania for all things food, it comes as no surprise that Easter makes for feasting.

Much like in other European countries, lamb is a classic, and you may have had the chance to try the Colomba di Pasqua, a dove-shaped sweet bread that is Easter’s counterpart to the panettone. Yet this is a mere fraction of the wealth of Easter food Italy has to offer, and as we know, traditions vary from region to region.