Area Information
The whole of “Romagna” is renowned for its food and wine, a few kilometres from here are the towns of Forlimpopoli, birthplace of Pellegrino Artusi, author of the celebrated book “The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well”, and home of the Casa Artusi (a centre of food and wine culture with restaurant, wine cellar, domestic cooking school, museum and library), Bertinoro and Predappio, where you can pass time in a trattoria – wine bars such as “Cà dé Bé” or “Ca de Sanzves”, or “Ca dé Vin” sipping on a nice glass of Albana or Sangiovese - the first, either sweet or passito with a slice of Ciambella (local cake) or Formaggio di Fossa (ditch cheese), while the second can be accompanied by a piadina romagnola (local bread) and sliced meats (salame e prosciutto) or piadina and squacquerone (a fersh soft cheese), and when your vacation has ended, before you leave, you can buy tagliatelle, tagliolini, cappelletti, tortellini, lasagne etc. all made traditionally by hand by one of our “sfogline” (local women who hand make pasta). Our hinterland is rich in both history and culture. Ravenna, one of the cities of art, is easily reached. Known as the city of mosaics it has 7 monuments World Heritage Listed by Unesco (e.g.: from the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia with its dome blanketed with stars, to the elegant Basilica of Saint Apollinare in Classe), Dante’s tomb and archaeological sites (like the Domus of the Stone Carpets), and let’s not forget Faenza (world renowned for its ceramics with the International Ceramics Museum) and the nearby Brisighella. You may visit Cesena and the Malatestian library (also heritage listed by Unesco), or Rimini with its latest archaeological find of world importance, the Surgeon’s House (which can be visited in its entirety), without forgetting the nearby cities of Ferrara, Urbino, Arezzo and the Repubblic of San Marino. There are also the Malatestian fortresses all over Romagna with their fantastic stories (such as the legend of Azzurrina’s ghost, who floats through the passages of the fortress at Montebello), the castle at Gradara with its story of Paolo and Francesca written about by Dante in the Divine Comedy, and the fortress at San Leo (where Silvio Pellico and Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as the Count of Cagliostro, an enigmatic and mysterious individual, were imprisoned).
