REAL ITALIAN CUISINE, FOOD, WINE, HOSPITALITY, CULTURE & SIGHTS
Emilio Romagna is respected throughout Italy as being the heart of Italian cookery. If so, little Romagna is its soul. Here tradition and cookery culture are still paramount, handed down from each Nonna in turn. Here pasta is made with fresh ingredients each day. All that is used is a Schiador (long rolling pin) wooden table, sharp knife great flour (here thy create over 300 types) and fresh local eggs. This is the start to the Romagna meal which will usually include fabulous local cold cuts, superb local cheeses, historic local wines, oils, superb local fruit and vegetables - and the important piadina.
It is no wonder that "Italy's best cookery school" is here, it is no wonder that in little Romagna has dozens of IGPs and DOCs - including the first ever white wine DOCG - Albana.
This is our exploration of Romagna food and wine and hospitality (and we'll pop over the border for Emilia parmesan, prosciutto and balsamic). If you love real food and wine - you will totally adore this experience.
Just a few of the included Highlights:
Cost from just $2950
About the Best of Romagna:
Romagna away from the coast is a very un-touristy place. Unlike its near neighbors Tuscany and the Veneto, in uncrowded Romagna foreign (particularly English- speaking) visitors are unusual. Here you will be treated as a guest - not a tourist!
So that you may enjoy your visit to the full, we run your experience not as a package tour but more like a group of friends having an adventure on a visit to a new and very special place. In this way we believe you will have a glorious, very different and natural experience. The fact is that Romagna’s wonderful hinterland has not become jaded by mass tourism – and we aim to keep it that way,
Everybody you will meet here is passionate about their homeland, its beauty and its enormous larder of local, seasonal food and wine. Everybody you will meet here is enormously proud of their history, culture and above all their diligent and heartfelt hospitality.We sincerely believe that you will find treasure here in Romagna - treasure that can only come from open hearts with the willingness to share an unbelievably enormous heritage.
By the time you leave our aim is to help you, like us, to be passionate about Romagna and count the days ‘til you return!
Day 1 Sunday - Welcome to Romagna
Taste the wonderful wines of Romagna, visit a delightful city of art, enjoy a warm welcome
Emilio Romagna is respected throughout Italy as being the heart of Italian cookery. If so, little Romagna is its soul. Here tradition and cookery culture are still paramount, handed down from each Nonna in turn. Here pasta is made with fresh ingredients each day. All that is used is a Schiador (long rolling pin) wooden table, sharp knife great flour (here thy create over 300 types) and fresh local eggs. This is the start to the Romagna meal which will usually include fabulous local cold cuts, superb local cheeses, historic local wines, oils, superb local fruit and vegetables - and the important piadina.
It is no wonder that "Italy's best cookery school" is here, it is no wonder that in little Romagna has dozens of IGPs and DOCs - including the first ever white wine DOCG - Albana.
This is our exploration of Romagna food and wine and hospitality (and we'll pop over the border for Emilia parmesan, prosciutto and balsamic). If you love real food and wine - you will totally adore this experience.
Just a few of the included Highlights:
- FLY INTO ROME OR MILAN OR VENICE spend one night in 3 star hotel and take the morning high speed train direct to Bologna - 1 night hotel and return train ticket all included in the price.
- Learn to cook Italian in the "BEST COOKERY SCHOOL IN ITALY"
- Visit to ARTISAN BALSAMIC VINEGAR cellar
- Visit a top restaurant and learn from cook-in with young star chef
- Taste: olive oils and superb local foods
- Visit the vineyard CASTLE TOWNS of the Marecchia Hills
- Enjoy three very special vineyard wine tastings (biodynamic, organic,historic)
- Visit to traditional ARTISAN PROSCIUTTO staging post
- All 7 special meals delicious culinary experiences with wine
- Exploring BOLOGNA food capital of Italy
- Visit to traditional ARTISAN PARMESAN factory
- Back in time with miraculous mosaics in BYZANTINE RAVENNA
- Accommodation in warm friendly country house plus great 4 star garden hotel by the sea
- Comfortable personal travel in a SMALL GROUP
- Visit the ART CITIES of the historic Via Emilia
Cost from just $2950
About the Best of Romagna:
Romagna away from the coast is a very un-touristy place. Unlike its near neighbors Tuscany and the Veneto, in uncrowded Romagna foreign (particularly English- speaking) visitors are unusual. Here you will be treated as a guest - not a tourist!
So that you may enjoy your visit to the full, we run your experience not as a package tour but more like a group of friends having an adventure on a visit to a new and very special place. In this way we believe you will have a glorious, very different and natural experience. The fact is that Romagna’s wonderful hinterland has not become jaded by mass tourism – and we aim to keep it that way,
Everybody you will meet here is passionate about their homeland, its beauty and its enormous larder of local, seasonal food and wine. Everybody you will meet here is enormously proud of their history, culture and above all their diligent and heartfelt hospitality.We sincerely believe that you will find treasure here in Romagna - treasure that can only come from open hearts with the willingness to share an unbelievably enormous heritage.
By the time you leave our aim is to help you, like us, to be passionate about Romagna and count the days ‘til you return!
Day 1 Sunday - Welcome to Romagna
Taste the wonderful wines of Romagna, visit a delightful city of art, enjoy a warm welcome
Travel by high speed comfortable train from Rome or Milan to Bologna where we'll be met and taken straight to the heart of Romagna.. we'll take the short journey to the hilltop castle-town of Longiano for dinner and overnight at Alloggio San Girolamo, Quattro Passeri or Locanda della Luna (or a similar high grade country-house style accommodation) and enjoy the atmosphere and stunning views. Then another taste of great Romagnolo food and wine - a special welcome dinner at the Ristorante Dei Cantoni.
Day 2 Monday – Enjoy the Tastes of Romagna
Day 2 Monday – Enjoy the Tastes of Romagna
Tour beautiful Longiano, taste superb wines and local produce in a stunning biodynamic boutique vineyard, experience glorious mountaintop republic San Marino
After a relaxed home-cooked breakfast, we'll take a short tour of lovely Longiano, we’ll see the fabulous medieval castle with its extraordinary views, and enjoy the fabulous jewel-box theatre Petrella with its museum of masks. Next a fabulous wine and food tasting at the beautiful Villa Venti where we'll also taste some superb cheeses of Renato Brancaleoni.
Our afternoon will be spent in the fabulous medieval city of Santarcangelo de Romagna. Supper in the world-famous Sangiovesa restaurant. Return to Longiano for overnight.
Day 3 Tuesday - Mosaics and da Vinci's seaside plus an amazing lunch
After a relaxed home-cooked breakfast, we'll take a short tour of lovely Longiano, we’ll see the fabulous medieval castle with its extraordinary views, and enjoy the fabulous jewel-box theatre Petrella with its museum of masks. Next a fabulous wine and food tasting at the beautiful Villa Venti where we'll also taste some superb cheeses of Renato Brancaleoni.
Our afternoon will be spent in the fabulous medieval city of Santarcangelo de Romagna. Supper in the world-famous Sangiovesa restaurant. Return to Longiano for overnight.
Day 3 Tuesday - Mosaics and da Vinci's seaside plus an amazing lunch
Walk in da Vinci's Cesenatico seaport, enjoy an enormous robust country lunch, tour 3 times capital World Heritage Ravenna with its 1500 year old basilicas and mosaics.
After breakfast we'll drive to Cesenatico for a lovely seaside walk - in Leonardo da Vinci's port canal no less! Then we’ll have a great country lunch at a glorious Agriturismo - La Casina. This will be followed by a sensational visit of glorious Ravenna with Cinzia - this world heritage city, three times capital (of the Western Roman Empire, of Theodoric King of the Goths, and of the Byzantine Empire) is full of marvelous mosaics and stunning 1500 year old basilicas. Return to Longiano for dinner and overnight.
Day4 Tuesday: - Cooking Day
After breakfast we'll drive to Cesenatico for a lovely seaside walk - in Leonardo da Vinci's port canal no less! Then we’ll have a great country lunch at a glorious Agriturismo - La Casina. This will be followed by a sensational visit of glorious Ravenna with Cinzia - this world heritage city, three times capital (of the Western Roman Empire, of Theodoric King of the Goths, and of the Byzantine Empire) is full of marvelous mosaics and stunning 1500 year old basilicas. Return to Longiano for dinner and overnight.
Day4 Tuesday: - Cooking Day
A memorable day of food and wine and understanding
Check out of our country house.Ever wanted to learn to cook REAL Italian? Casa Artusi "The Best Cookery School in Italy" is the place. In this foundation created to honor Pellegrino Artusi, the father of Italian Cookery - you will learn to make at least seven different sorts of pasta (including local specialties). In the fully-equipped cookery school, each participant will have the services of an assistant and their own work-station.
After this life-enhancing experience we will enjoy a superb lunch of local specialties – plus the pasta that we have created with excellent local wine. At the end of the session, we’ll have presented to us, our hand-made Casa Artusi apron together with our certificate for concluding the cookery course. Without any doubt, this will be a highlight of our trip!
We’ll then travel up to the lovely wine-village of Bertinoro and visit the Fattoria Paradiso - the most historic vineyard in Romagna.Here we’ll tour the fabulous hillside estate, the medieval merchant’s house and the vineyard, after we’ll enjoy some local cheese, local olive oils and bread, plus of course we’ll taste over six of Fattoria Paradiso’s superb wines including those created for various Popes and presidents. Overnight at the fabulous Hotel Aurelia or a similar 4 star establishment by the sea in glitzy Milano Marittima – walking distance to the historic salt port of Cervia.
Day5 Wednesday - the power of salt and a fantastic star chef
Check out of our country house.Ever wanted to learn to cook REAL Italian? Casa Artusi "The Best Cookery School in Italy" is the place. In this foundation created to honor Pellegrino Artusi, the father of Italian Cookery - you will learn to make at least seven different sorts of pasta (including local specialties). In the fully-equipped cookery school, each participant will have the services of an assistant and their own work-station.
After this life-enhancing experience we will enjoy a superb lunch of local specialties – plus the pasta that we have created with excellent local wine. At the end of the session, we’ll have presented to us, our hand-made Casa Artusi apron together with our certificate for concluding the cookery course. Without any doubt, this will be a highlight of our trip!
We’ll then travel up to the lovely wine-village of Bertinoro and visit the Fattoria Paradiso - the most historic vineyard in Romagna.Here we’ll tour the fabulous hillside estate, the medieval merchant’s house and the vineyard, after we’ll enjoy some local cheese, local olive oils and bread, plus of course we’ll taste over six of Fattoria Paradiso’s superb wines including those created for various Popes and presidents. Overnight at the fabulous Hotel Aurelia or a similar 4 star establishment by the sea in glitzy Milano Marittima – walking distance to the historic salt port of Cervia.
Day5 Wednesday - the power of salt and a fantastic star chef
Relaxed morning in Cervia discovering the power of salt. after, we’ll visit a very special restaurant in the hills – Da Gorini’s young chef is set to become one of Italy’s world stars. We will meet him and he will take us through his cooking methods.Return to Milano Marittima for overnight
Day6 Thursday: Hills, Olive Oil, Honey, Free Range Pigs and Amazing local Food.
Day6 Thursday: Hills, Olive Oil, Honey, Free Range Pigs and Amazing local Food.
Morning free then visit to Brisighella to taste the amazing olive oil, wine and honey produced in this hilltop Gypsum hill microclimate. We’ll also have the opportunity to visit the Spadoni rare-breed pig farm – Fattoria Palazzo Zattaglia before making a visit to Faenza and then for an amazing dinner at the showcase restaurant overseen by a 2 star Michelin chef – Casa Spadoni who not only run the pig palace but also mill the flour for the, grow the grapes for the wine and make sure that all the food served comes from their own sources.
Day7 Friday Great Organic Wine & The Art City of Wine
Day7 Friday Great Organic Wine & The Art City of Wine
Check out of hotel after breakfast. First stop is a visit to the superb, internationally-rated organic Zuffa Vineyard to take a wine tasting in the open air, between vines. If time permits we’ll visit the art city of Dozza en route to Bologna.
Depending on arrival time there will be an opportunity for an early evening walking tour of this colorful medieval city. One of Italy's richest cities, Bologna is famous for its 3,000-year history, its world's oldest university, its miles of covered arcades and lovely squares, fabulous art and architecture - but above all, its FOOD and FUN.We’ll stay overnight in a specially-selected 3 or 4 star city-center hotel such as the family-run Touring Hotel with its warm atmosphere, and lovely breakfast.
Depending on arrival time there will be an opportunity for an early evening walking tour of this colorful medieval city. One of Italy's richest cities, Bologna is famous for its 3,000-year history, its world's oldest university, its miles of covered arcades and lovely squares, fabulous art and architecture - but above all, its FOOD and FUN.We’ll stay overnight in a specially-selected 3 or 4 star city-center hotel such as the family-run Touring Hotel with its warm atmosphere, and lovely breakfast.
Day 8 Saturday - Prosciutto, Balsamic and Parmesan
Full day tour to visit artisan prosciutto ageing station, Modena Balsamic initiative and, naturally a parmesan factory and an extra wine tasting in Emilia country. Overnight in Bologna evening tour in this city of great food. Special farewell dinner.
Day 9 Sunday Food, Food, Authentic Wonderful Food
Day 9 Sunday Food, Food, Authentic Wonderful Food
Bologna is a food city that awakes early - even on Sunday - so we’ll start the day with a breakfast- time tour and avoid the crowds of day trippers! It’s not for nothing that Bologna is known as ‘Fat City’ It is the food capital of Italy (and therefore the world?!) The ancient Mercato di Mezzo and the food shops, café’s and restaurants around it, all in the medieval quarter, are astonishing homes to intoxicating taste, scent and aroma which pervades the whole area and heightens appetites. Naturally our full- on guided visit will include many tastes!
Leave Bologna early afternoon
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TOUR IS ONLY BOOKABLE THROUGH PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL AGENTS WHO HAVE VISITED ROMAGNA AND CAN ADVISE YOU PROPERLY - LIST HERE
PRICE PER PERSON: $2950
Deposit required $200 per person to reserve arrangement. Balance payable 10 weeks prior to arrival.
Cancellation terms: Initial deposit only up to 8 weeks prior to departure. 80% from 8 weeks prior to departure. PRICES BASED A PRIVATE GROUP MINIMUM 6 SIX PASSENGERS
SUPPLEMENT FOR MINIMUM FOUR PASSENGERS - $500 PER PERSON
SUPPLEMENT FOR MINIMUM TWO PASSENGERS - $1000 PER PERSON
SINGLE ROOM SUPPLEMENT $400
MAXIMUM PASSENGERS PER GROUP 15 FIFTEEN PEOPLE
Friday arrival Rome, Milan and Venice.
Saturday departure dates from Rome, Milan Venice and Bologna 2022:
March 5,12,19,26
April 2,9,16,23,30
May 7,14,21,28
June 4,11,18,25
July 2,9
September 3,10,17,24
October 1,8,15,22,29
November 5,12,19,26
December 3
Leave Bologna early afternoon
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TOUR IS ONLY BOOKABLE THROUGH PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL AGENTS WHO HAVE VISITED ROMAGNA AND CAN ADVISE YOU PROPERLY - LIST HERE
PRICE PER PERSON: $2950
Deposit required $200 per person to reserve arrangement. Balance payable 10 weeks prior to arrival.
Cancellation terms: Initial deposit only up to 8 weeks prior to departure. 80% from 8 weeks prior to departure. PRICES BASED A PRIVATE GROUP MINIMUM 6 SIX PASSENGERS
SUPPLEMENT FOR MINIMUM FOUR PASSENGERS - $500 PER PERSON
SUPPLEMENT FOR MINIMUM TWO PASSENGERS - $1000 PER PERSON
SINGLE ROOM SUPPLEMENT $400
MAXIMUM PASSENGERS PER GROUP 15 FIFTEEN PEOPLE
Friday arrival Rome, Milan and Venice.
Saturday departure dates from Rome, Milan Venice and Bologna 2022:
March 5,12,19,26
April 2,9,16,23,30
May 7,14,21,28
June 4,11,18,25
July 2,9
September 3,10,17,24
October 1,8,15,22,29
November 5,12,19,26
December 3
