Do you really know Ravenna? For some of you the right question would be, Do you know Ravenna at all? A Unesco site town that should be known all over the world for its wonderful gold and blue mosaics, its byzantine huge churches and its ancient history. But maybe Ravenna is more than that and, as Romans used to say,…
Ancient libraries always had a very special charme for me. I had the chance to inherit a quite huge collection of books from my uncle. When I was a child, I used to spend hours just looking at those dusty volumes, peeping inside and try to figure out why that book was written and why my uncle decided to buy it. Old…
Bertinoro, the balcony of Romagna! This is what you can find in most of the touristic websites that describe this little borough that you see up in the hills, driving the Via Emilia Southbound. A very true fact, but for sure this lovely place is much more than this. Leaving the main road, a flat area with nothing else…
It could seem obvious. If you have always lived in a place and your family roots are there, you should know your town. But this is barely never an assumption. Most of the times you know the places you always go to: your borough, your office, the bar you eat your breakfast, the shops you see along the road from your…
September in the Adriatic coast of Romagna can be really surprising: sun is shining while I drive along the road that takes me to Bellaria Igea Marina for the second edition of LovingRomagna. One year has passed since I was here for the first time, enjoying a place I had never visited before and discovering the warm…
A lazy smoky morning welcomes me in Bellaria in this first day of the blog tour organized by Hotel San Salvador. I know this small town very well. It’s a quiet, cozy, slow place. Quite a paradise if you think that Rimini and its madness are a few kilometer from here. Stefano and Federico Poggi are the owners of the…
Our childhood always brings us those kind of memories that will last forever, even where we are 80 years old and we sit in our favorite chair, in the sitting room. Mine was not different, actually. My parents had the habits to take me there, put in front of this majestic scenery (everything seems bigger when you are a…
The most famous town of the Adriatic Romagna Riviera: the place with the most famous discotheques, street bar, pubs and the place where every summer thousands of people go to enjoy, meet people, dance and drink. My idea of Rimini has always been different: a nice historical center with the Roman remains of the August…
I have been living here since 2012, and it always brought me a kind of uncomfortable feeling when I had to talk about my town, a very nice one, indeed but with a very bad name coming from the fact that it was the birth town of Mr Mussolini, the man who caused many sufferance to the Italian people. Predappio:…
So Old? That’s was my first thought when I saw the Saffi Square Portocoes decorated with some original banners, showing the milestones of the the 800 years of this beautiful place. As a matter of fact, is one of the hugest squares in Italy, maybe because before becoming what it is now, it was just a country yard,…
