Italy, a secret place to discover! It’s not the claim of the next promotional Italian Tourist Board campaign, but a real deal! Some of the most enchanting monuments and places in Italy cannot be visited. They are closed to public eyes. But every year and only for a couple of days, they live again thanks to FAI, a no…
Snow keeps on falling down; it always amazes me, like a little child who first sees this white fluffy stuff covering and purifying everything around. I had quite a busy working morning, but decided to go out, take my car and drive some kilometers up, towards Tuscany border and visit some places I knew, just to see them…
The sound of silence: this is what I heard arriving in Ferrara. Slowly walking down one of the main avenues from the railway station to Piazza Castello, last saturday, I had the clear impression this was a suspended town. And actually, it is, just take a look at the plan, and you will see from one side the Renaissance…
Eating in Romagna is a five senses adventure! You can understand this region by moving slowly from towns, boroughs, little villages, sure you will always eat something different and unique, only cooked in that place, telling a special history. Migliaccio is one of these. My experience was really a delicious one, I had…
Well, to be honest: I’m not a sportive person. I do not run, I do not do gym or zumba, nor I can ski. But when I read the ciaspolada program in the Emilia Romagna Tourism website I decided to take the chance and defy my phisique. Actually, when I went to visit the Parco delle Foreste Casentinesi last november I…
Can you imagine to enter a little museum, in a little town and hear the beautiful music of Miles Davis, see the guitar of Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, admire the golden record of Michael Jackson? Well, I was really surprised by that too! My visit in Sogliano had a very different aim as I told in…
Winter means cold, freeze and snow. It is not really the right time to visit a sea town. But this is what I like most: in summer the coast towns of Romagna (from Cattolica to Ravenna) are crowded with thousands of people and you don’t even see the town in itself, and sometimes you don’t feel like doing…
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…
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…
