Travel Emilia Romagna

The skipass show

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:26 +0000

The most important winter sports and tourism show will this year be held in Modena. It offers people from Italy and around the world an opportunity to arrange and book winter holidays, buy winter sportswear, find out about new equipment and also talk to industry specialists such as ski lift operators and ski instructors.
All of the ski resorts in Italy participate as well as the main resorts in the Alps of France and Slovenia. At Skipass you can also watch demos, exhibitions and contests of a large variety of freestyle sports like snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, inline skating and motocross.

Info: www.skipass.it (only in Italian)

The Italian autumn jazz festival

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:55:05 +0000

Bologna is traditionally tied to jazz because it held the very first jazz festival in Italy in 1958. The city has welcomed important jazz players such as Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Keith Jarrett, Jerry Mullingan and Miles Davis.
The annual festival will be taking place in November and there will be a full programme of performances taking place in Bologna’s theatres, pubs, clubs and restaurants.

Info: www.festivaljazzbologna.it

Artelibro

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:41:21 +0000

An entire weekend of events celebrating the ninth Artelibro Art Book Festival which takes place in Bologna. The halls of Palazzo Re Enzo e del Podestà, in the heart of the town centre of Bologna, will be open its doors to host a large exhibition-market of antique booksellers, publishers of fine art books and specialized magazines.

Info: www.artelibro.it (only in Italian)

Buskers festival

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:36:31 +0000

The Ferrara Buskers Festival attracts 800.000 spectators a year and is one of the biggest events in the world dedicated to busking. It was founded in 1988 to promote the works of street artists and there are now 200 similar events held each year in Italy.
With its world famous Ferrara landscape as the backdrop, the festival offers attendees a fantastic way of appreciating the 200,000 sq meters of music from 35 different nations. The festival has become the most impressive world event for street music in Italy, and one of the best known folk festivals in Europe.

Info: www.ferrarabuskers.com

Under the Tables of the Malatesta

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:13:33 +0000

In the fortress of the Malatestina family, known by the locals as Rocca Malatestina, visitors will be treated to a rare glimpse of artefacts found in recent excavations at the fortress. These objects give new insight into everyday life and customs at the fortress during the mid-14th century to the end of the 16th century. Featuring a number of ceramic pieces, including vases and carafes made by the great artists of the day, a number of sewing tools and miscellaneous objects, as well as a bronze seal dating back to the 1300s in fantastic condition. After viewing the artefacts, a walk around the fortress is a must. With the original buildings having been constructed in the 12th Century, the site is an impressive historic landmark. Previously used as a prison the architecture reflects this and also houses a supposedly haunted “corridor of ghosts” in the basement of the central block. A view from the ramparts should cap off a visit nicely, where views as far as the Adriatic can be enjoyed on a clear day.

Palio di Ferrara

n.montemaggi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:08:51 +0000

The Palio of Ferrara is an absolute must-see. It is the world’s oldest palio (annual authentic contest). A thousand locals dress as damsels and knights, men at arms and musicians to take part. After the costume parade, the contrade have to run four races, one for boys (Corsa dei Putti or Palio di San Romano), one for girls (Corsa delle Putte or Palio di San Paolo), one for donkeys (Corsa delle Asine or Palio di San Maurelio) and the last one for horses (Corsa dei Cavalli or Palio di San Giorgio). There are also flag-wavers competitions and musicians that represent the eight dividing streets of Ferrara.

www.paliodiferrara.it

Crossroads Jazz Festival

n.montemaggi — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:55:42 +0000

An annual celebration of Jazz which travels across the Emilia Romagna region. Holding concerts and events in more than 20 cities, from Modern and Bologna via Ferrara and Rimini, visitors can profit from a jazz concert almost every day!

Cento Carnival of Europe – Allegorical floats parade

n.montemaggi — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:45:28 +0000

Cento’s Carnival which dates back to the 1600s is a celebration of the stars of show business. During the event there are floats with more than 500 people in colourful costumes parading through the town’s seventeenth-century streets drawing the public in to the cheerful, festive mood.
For centuries, the party remained a very local celebration until the town twinned with the carnival in Rio de Janeiro- the festival has now become known internationally. Date: 5th Feb, 19th Feb, 26th Feb, 4th Mar- the float parades begin at 2pm.

Westfield Stratford city – The Photo Diary

n.montemaggi — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:03:39 +0000

January 9, 2012

Here some of the pictures taken during the Christmas cooking with Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, in Westfield Stratford city.

A journey around Italy’s Emilia Romagna region together with Riccardo Giacomini patron chef at Tentazioni restaurant which serves pure Italian cuisine and contemporary Italian food in Southwark; Theo Randall Head chef at The InterContinental Park Lane and indisputable star of Saturday Kitchen at BBC; Simone Remoli patron of Pasta Remoli who discovered his passion of hand made fresh Italian pasta when he was less than 5 years old working in his grandmother’s country kitchen.

Our fellow passengers were Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium -under the protection of which only cheeses produced according to the rules of the Production Regulation may bear the distinctive Parmigiano Reggiano marks- and Bianca&Mora which has a great stand at Borough Market and showed us the cracking open of the wheels and offered a tasting of the king of all cheeses!

Apt Servizi was in charge of leading people to the discover of Emilia Romagna region home of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, with the aim of taking people on a journey of the most authentic experiences the region has to offer: from food to ski, from spa to golf, from beaches to the art cities were you can jump back to the Romans era, to the Renaissance or enjoy the modern art.
Emilia Romagna is the most popular leisure district in Italy – but most of it has yet to be discovered by theBrits!

There was alsoa a Twitter competition and people could take their chance to win a box of delicacies! Winner was Sebastien Powell from Bristol!

Mama Is Chef’s Pasta Maker

n.montemaggi — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:29:28 +0000

December 16, 2011

Jeff Gordinier of the New York Times meets a woman dusted with flour at Gradisca Restaurant.

“Very tiny,” Mr. Galeano said on a recent Wednesday night as he watched her in action. “Small. Delicate.” The size and shape of the tortellini should be comparable, he said, to “that famous part in the painting by Botticelli” — the navel, that is, of the goddess in “The Birth of Venus.”

Read the full article online “Mama Is Chef’s Pasta Maker” by Jeff Gordinier