This is a part of the tale of Leopold the II during his visit to the Forest and the valley and it is taken from the book ” Il Parco del Crinale tra Romagna e Toscana”, Alinari, 1992. Unfortunately, due to the old language, it was not possible to have a translation. Enjoy as you can! Cavalcando da’…
Like Christmas or, new year’s eve or the 4th of july, there are things in Romagna coming only once in the year. Sogliano, a very little town in the hills near Cesena, opens its Fossas in november to discover what the cheese became after 3 months. Every year, on Saint Catherine’s day (25th november) Sogliano is…
Tasting is learning, not only experiencing. A place is a taste you will remember for years, maybe because it was your first experience or maybe because people you met shared it with you . So was for me about the oil. I had always heard about Brisighella dop oil, but never ever could imagine it was such a technical…
Do you think grapes picking period is September? You are probably right, depending in which part of the world you are, but I recently discovered some exceptions, visiting the Cesena Wine Festival, where I met a little winery who invited me to visit its wine yards. The place is up to the hills near Bertinoro, called…
I guess the majority of you do not know Mr Alessandro Bonci and, mostly, you are wondering why I’m talking about him in a post about Sangiovese Romagna. Well, Mr Bonci was an opera singer. He was so famous in United States to be be considered tha main competitor of Enrico Caruso. He was born in Cesena, that is…
Beginning the adventure A cloudy and rainy sunday welcomed me in Santa Sofia, a very little town, 200 meters up the sea level. The meeting point was exactly in the center town, at the offices of the Foreste Casentinesi National Park. My mission? The Fall Foliage seen from the deep of the forest, so called Sasso…
I will start this page, dedicated, to the great authors of world literature, with a short quotation of Vicente Blasco Ibanez about Genoa, from Il Paese dell’Arte, El pais de l’arte. Genoa is a city of contrasts, of great palaces and the poor alleyways … With the exception of half a dozen major roads…
What is the first thing that you do when you arrive in a town for the first time? Try to get oriented, look people straight in their faces to know what they will tell you, waving a shy hello, hoping she will welcome you and let you in. Well, I do all this things and not necessarily in this order. I do like people and…
“E ‘l mastin vecchio e ‘l nuovo da Verrucchio, che fecer di Montagna il mal governo, là dove soglion fan d’i denti succhio.” Well, probably lots of you will not be able to understand this italian line taken from Dante’s Divina Commedia, but I think it was the best way to start this…
