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If you live in a town since you were a child, you grow up with some perfect images in your mind. The streets you stroll with your mother, the place you ate your first ice cream, the gardens you enjoyed the children games, your elementary school. Sounds, voices, smells change while you grow up and slowly disappear in a…

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What do you imagine when you think of Italy? Your thought goes from Rome to Florence, to the hills of Tuscany and maybe you already dream yourself in the charming stream of the roman Bella Vita. But arriving in Portico di Romagna with the bloggers of Romagna Diffusa, I had the strong feeling of a place lost in times,…

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And here we are! The project I worked on for a long time is starting. My friend bloggers Teresa Keane and Catherine Sweeney with her co-blogger Randy, alias MrTws, are with me, going to the hills where we will stay for a while. June is just perfect to visit Romagna: everything is green and fruit trees are starting to…

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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…

Golden Romagna as seen by Tonino Guerra

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…

Culture is sharing: Food and music first!

People are moving for different reasons: in the past to discover new places or to find new resources, or even to learn and study (I guess you know Goethe’s book about his trip in Italy). But reasons can’t be ever so nice: from the beginning of 19th century huge masses began to emigrate very far: United…

Buonvivere? Is living in a sustainable town

Buonvivere: wellbeing, wellness, good living. These are only some different words to define a lifestyle, a way of thinking, a way of working; a philosophical platform on which you can insert a lot of different concepts. And this is also the fil rouge that three years ago led the Cooperative League of Forlì, to…