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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…

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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…

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Someone call them the ladies of Sangiovese: women who grew up with the culture of wine in their blood and took the heritage of this centennial history of Romagna from their grandfather and fathers. But this is not the case of Noelia Ricci: a lovely lady, daughter of Mr. Giuseppe Ricci, a local entrepreneur in love with…

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Have you ever asked yourself what you are really eating and what is behind the food that is in your dish? You might find it interesting especially when you have the chance to experience it directly with people working on that. Romagna has a very long coast: sandy beaches full of “ombrelloni” and children…

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Chestnuts, mushrooms and truffles: delicious fruits of Romagna I already spoke about my first adventures in Portico di Romagna, so you may ask why I am still writing about it. Do you have a special heart spot in the world? A place where you feel like home and where you would like to settle your nest? Mine is Portico di…

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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…

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Enchanting forest! After my first visit in 2012, my trips into the National Park of Foreste Casentinesi and Monte Falterona became more and more frequent, but every year I wait for this great event, Autunno slow, to enjoy my special visit and meet again my friend Franco Locatelli, official WST (Wonderful StoryTeller)…

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“Ehi Gino, what have you found this morning? Nothing, the ground was poor”. This may be the typical conversation you can hear in the bar of one of the small villages in the Tuscan Romagna, a very huge bordering area that includes the National Park of Foreste Casentinesi and Monte Falterona. Ask a truffle hunter and…

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Hemingway used to live in a parted house near the Havana, Cuba; Jack Kerouac, used to travel in secluded parts of the world with his Moleskine; I go to Casa Marola. Well, I do not want to create any parallelism between me and those two monsters of international literature, but if you are a travel writer, this is the…