The highly anticipated Festa Ċitru is set to be held next Sunday, 14 January, at The President’s Kitchen Garden in Attard from 10am onwards. As is tradition, oranges and lemons picked from the Presidential Palace gardens and products made from oranges will be sold during the event.

This morning, the President of Malta George Vella and Mrs Miriam Vella officially launched the fifteenth edition of Festa Ċitru during an activity with students from the Attard primary school and the Victoria Gozo primary school.

The launch was held at the citrus orchard of Sant’Anton Palace, which has around six hundred citrus trees, the majority of which are orange trees.

Preparations for Festa Ċitru are also underway in the Kitchen of Sant’Anton Palace as a number of cakes and other confectionery made from oranges are currently being baked to be sold during this event, the proceeds of which will all go to The Malta Community Chest Fund.

This year, olive oil pressed from the olive trees of The President’s Kitchen Garden will also be on sale.

A zesty affair that’s not to be missed!