The story of Panificio Le Origini since 1947

Every bakery has a starting point. Ours has a precise date and place: 1947, in Irsina, a small village a few kilometres from Matera. That is where the story of Panificio Le Origini and the Lapenna family begins, bakers and pastry chefs ever since.

1947: Savino Lapenna opens the bakery in Irsina

In 1947 Savino Lapenna started working as a baker in Irsina. In his oven he made bread, pizzas and focaccia, and alongside them the sweets of traditional pastry-making. He was driven by "a spirit of initiative and a great passion for good homemade bread".

With these ingredients, even before flour and yeast, the Lapenna family bakery began its story.

Today: Antonio and Giuseppe

Today the work goes on with Antonio Lapenna and his son Giuseppe, who is following in his footsteps. Together, with love and care, they work on traditional recipes to create baked goods with a flavour you recognise from the very first bite.

For us, Panificio Le Origini is first of all this: "the pride of precious work lived side by side, day after day". A craft passed from hand to hand, within the same family and in the same town.

Goodness comes from the details

There is one sentence that sums up the way we work: "Goodness is the result of attention to detail and the choice of the highest quality raw ingredients". It is the criterion we use to decide what goes into the dough and what does not.

You can see it in the ingredients listed on our product pages too: olive oil, re-milled durum wheat semolina, toasted almonds, fig syrup, white wine, fennel seeds. Simple names you already know.

Our treats

Our treats come in two lines:

• Sweet treats: biscuits, cantucci, wine taralli, scorzette, almond pastries, vincotto bites, mostaccioli, mastaccere, strudel and taralli quaresimali. You will find them all in the Sweet treats collection.
• Savoury treats: our cangelle, in many different flavours, from the traditional cangelle with fennel seeds to the crusco pepper ones. You will find them in the Savoury treats collection.

And for the holidays there is our panettone collection: six flavours to discover.

Irsina, our anchor

Our home is still Irsina: our shop is in Piazza Maritain, in the province of Matera. If you would like to write to us with a question about a product or an order, all our details are on the Contact page.

Every biscuit and every cangella that reaches your home starts from here, from the same town where Savino Lapenna first lit his oven.

Discover our treats

If you would like to get to know us better, read our story on the About us page. Then let your taste guide you: start with the Sweet treats or the Savoury treats and choose yours.

Lapenna • Bakers & Pastry Chefs since 1947