Honey is produced throughout the Abruzzo region and may be monofloral or blended. Typical local flora (clover, sainfoin, sunflower, summer savory, acacia) and mixed mountain flowers (in which case the hives are situated at a minimum altitude of 800 metres) are used for production, but flora from other regions is used by “nomadic” Abruzzo beekeepers, who transport their hives to areas where other flowers grow.

Beekeeping has been practised in Abruzzo since ancient times, and an Arab geographer writing in the early Middle Ages described the region’s inhabitants as keen hunters and honey gatherers.  Rationalised beekeeping, on the other hand, based on the use of hives built for inspection, seems to have developed in Abruzzo in the late 1800s.