For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days.
Day 6: Confetti, those colorful candy-coated almonds known to Americans as Jordan almonds, was created when the Pelino family opened their confetti factory in the beautiful city of Sulmona in 1783. Seven generations on, Pelino is still making the confection by hand, ensuring confetti’s continued ubiquity at Italian parties such as weddings, graduations and baptisms.
See more of Sulmona’s confetti in the first Abruzzo episode of our Dream of Italy TV series.
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