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…
Not far from the coast of Rimini, you can find a charming hills line, sweet, green and yellow. A landscape very similar to the one you can see in Tuscany, but still much more true and authentic. The road that goes from the town to the hills passes along some little boroughs: Coriano, Morciano, Gemmano, Monte Colombo.…
I remember. I remember when I was a child. Pic nic was a magic word. It meant adventure. My mother used to prepare all kinds of food. The car was a mini house: chairs, table, a big umbrella for the sun and everything else we could use to have our best day. Time stopped for one slow day, happily spent playing, eating…
It’s a matter of fact that Emilia Romagna’s food traditions, express one of the tastiest dishes in Italy. An all around way of cooking based on simple but natural and unique products, from the mountains to the seaside. Emilia Romagna is the land of well being and good eating, and this is a fact. But Romagna, and…
Do you think archeology is something for old and boring people? Something so far away from us that is hard to imagine as really existed? Archeological sites in Italy are some of the best and most visited sites all over the world. Pompei or the Temples Valley in Agrigento. Emilia Romagna also has some interesting places…
A restaurant’s kitchen is a magic place: rough vegetables, fruit, pasta, cheeses and all the products you can imagine become works of art, under the hands of the chefs and if you have the chance to peep inside, just for a couple of minutes, you may absorb and catch the passion and the love they have for food. It’s…
Rimini, Fellini, a circus and its director, Mr. Bottura: what could you expect if not something unique that makes you remember the dreamy atmosphere of your childhood, when everything was enchanting and the circus was a sort of huge and magic playroom. Osteria Francescana by Massimo Bottura was recently nominated the…
A blogger’s life is made of emotions and experiences. Especially if your focus is on a place or an area. Talking about your town or your region may not be so interesting as writing about some exotic destination, but still, especially in Italy, you have a bunch of histories to write about, which are exactly what your…
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…
A tiny town, quiet enough to taste its slow rhythm, but very alive and full of history. Forli, founded by the romans as a military “castrum” and a point of control on the via Emilia (Emilia Romagna main road), had its major historical highlight in the medieval period. Mercuriale, the first abbot, founded the abbey…
