7 special experiences to have in and around Bologna

The Parmigiano Reggiano tasting with visit is a tour that lasts about an hour and consists of a short theoretical introduction followed by a visit to the dairy with illustrated all the stages of Parmigiano Reggiano processing, up to the maturing warehouse.

At the end of the visit you will participate in a tasting of typical products.

Full Tasting

With tasting of various ripenings of Parmigiano Reggiano, ricotta, Crema di Parmigiano Reggiano choice, balsamic vinegar, jams and/or mostarde, accompanied by water and Lambrusco wine.

The estate tasting in Emilia will allow you to taste the traditional wines of Emilia while surrounded by acres of vines and cultivated fields. You can choose from two different options for this tour, both including a guided tour of the estate and accompanied by local products.

Lunch at an agritourism outside Modena allows you to enjoy typical Romagna products on an organic farm.

The menu is linked to tradition and aims to enhance the farm products and those of organic micro-farms in the area, creating and supporting networks and synergies nowadays fundamental for the survival of small realities of excellence.

The dishes vary weekly according to seasonality and availability of raw materials, starting from the farm’s harvests and proposals from external co-producers.

The spearhead of the kitchen are the baked goods produced in-house with the farm flours (sourdough bread, breadsticks, focaccia, cookies), the result of a long research always in the making of spelt spelt and ancient grains. The same semintegral flours are used to prepare the fresh pasta and desserts offered in the menu.

You can choose from a variety of proposals.

Basic menu

If you choose this option, you can enjoy:

•    bis of first courses
•    1 second course
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

Menu with appetizer

This menu includes:

•    appetizer with cold cuts, cheese and tigelle
•    1 first course
•    1 second course
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

Full menu

This option includes:

•    bis of first courses
•    bis of main courses
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

For adults who do not drink wine, there is a no-wine option for each menu.

The farm also offers a children's menu (4-10 years old) that includes:

•    1 first course
•    1 second course
•    1 dessert
•    water

In case of food allergies and intolerances you can contact the facility after booking.

The Parmigiano Reggiano tasting with visit is a tour that lasts about an hour and consists of a short theoretical introduction followed by a visit to the dairy with illustrated all the stages of Parmigiano Reggiano processing, up to the maturing warehouse.

At the end of the visit you will participate in a tasting of typical products.

Full Tasting

With tasting of various ripenings of Parmigiano Reggiano, ricotta, Crema di Parmigiano Reggiano choice, balsamic vinegar, jams and/or mostarde, accompanied by water and Lambrusco wine.

The tasting in the medieval village of Torrechiara will be based on wines and typical products in the evocative setting of a winery.

You will have the opportunity to taste products vinified inside the centuries-old walls of this fortress, made with grapes from the vineyards behind the castle.

Processing is entirely artisanal from the moment of harvest to vinification. The wines ferment naturally in the bottle and rest inside an underground cellar, once a cistern dedicated to collecting rainwater.

During the tour you will have the opportunity to visit this cellar, located three meters underground, in which, at the time of restoration, archaeological artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age were found.

Wine tasting in Torrechiara will be accompanied by some local products.

The estate tasting in Emilia will allow you to taste the traditional wines of Emilia while surrounded by acres of vines and cultivated fields. You can choose from two different options for this tour, both including a guided tour of the estate and accompanied by local products.

During this horseback ride in the Emilian Stirone Park you will be able to fully enjoy the beauty of the Apennines.

The horseback rides will take place on trails of low and medium-low difficulty suitable for all levels of experience, but also for those who have never been on horseback before.

You will be provided with all equipment for the excursion, including helmet (mandatory). Recommended clothing includes long pants and closed-toe shoes.

Lunch at an agritourism outside Modena allows you to enjoy typical Romagna products on an organic farm.

The menu is linked to tradition and aims to enhance the farm products and those of organic micro-farms in the area, creating and supporting networks and synergies nowadays fundamental for the survival of small realities of excellence.

The dishes vary weekly according to seasonality and availability of raw materials, starting from the farm’s harvests and proposals from external co-producers.

The spearhead of the kitchen are the baked goods produced in-house with the farm flours (sourdough bread, breadsticks, focaccia, cookies), the result of a long research always in the making of spelt spelt and ancient grains. The same semintegral flours are used to prepare the fresh pasta and desserts offered in the menu.

You can choose from a variety of proposals.

Basic menu

If you choose this option, you can enjoy:

•    bis of first courses
•    1 second course
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

Menu with appetizer

This menu includes:

•    appetizer with cold cuts, cheese and tigelle
•    1 first course
•    1 second course
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

Full menu

This option includes:

•    bis of first courses
•    bis of main courses
•    dessert of the day
•    water
•    coffee
•    1 glass of local organic wine

For adults who do not drink wine, there is a no-wine option for each menu.

The farm also offers a children's menu (4-10 years old) that includes:

•    1 first course
•    1 second course
•    1 dessert
•    water

In case of food allergies and intolerances you can contact the facility after booking.

This typical tasting in the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines based on local products is a unique experience.

On the hills of Brisighella, in the province of Ravenna, you will be welcomed by a welcoming atmosphere, that of the most genuine Romagna, among the vineyards and hills that characterize this magnificent area.

A tour all to be discovered, in which to savor the goodness of Romagna in distinct ways:

•    Bread and Wine: Tasting of 3 wines accompanied by dry appetizers;
•    Aperitivo Romagnolo: Tasting of 3 wines accompanied by small board of cold cuts, cheeses and piadina and tasting of fried cappelletti;
•    Lunch or dinner: Tasting 3 wines, paired with 3-course tasting menu that varies according to season (appetizer, first course, second course).

Horseback riding in the Casentino Forest Park, Premilcuore in Emilia Romagna, is a unique experience. During the horseback ride you will discover landscapes immersed in silence and nature. You can perform the 1-hour or 2-hour ride, depending on your preference.

The horseback riding trip starts from the riding school and then goes into the nature trails, among the green woods where you will be accompanied by the sound of streams and waterfalls and along the Rabbi River whose natural pools are one of the most suggestive Italian locations for bathing and the wild and spectacular landscape.

The riding school recommends that you show up in clothes suitable for horseback riding (long pants, comfortable shoes).

It is possible to add, before or after the horseback ride, a lunch of typical products at the agriturismo. You can opt for the full menu option with appetizer, first course, second course dessert and cover included. Alternatively, menus with only dishes are available.

Some of the dishes available at the farmhouse:

•    Appetizers: Charcuterie and cheese board, Truffle egg, Seasoned wild boar sausage.
•    First courses: Tortelli with truffle or meat sauce, Tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms or meat sauce, Tagliatelle with truffle, Vegetarian strozzapreti.
•    Secondi: Lamb chops, Wild boar chop, Pork shank, Roast rabbit.
•    Desserts: Panna cotta, Creme caramel, Jam tart.

Some products are variable depending on the season. Dishes may be added directly to the farmhouse that will not be included in the paid menu price.

Wine tasting in the Hills of Romagna is a unique experience. Upon your arrival, you will be welcomed by the sommelier who will accompany you to discover the original geographical location but above all the curiosities and philosophy of the winery.

Weather permitting, initially you will have the opportunity to walk in the closest and most representative vineyards. After that you will have the opportunity to visit the winery, where seasonality may allow a tasting of must or wine previews directly from the tank.

When the guided tour is over, you will continue to the tasting room, where in the colder months the ever-burning fireplace is the master, and in the warmer months you can enjoy the coolness of the cellar inside, and the hilly breeze outside.

In every season, however, you will always find 7 different wines to taste, the best available at different times of the year or the ones you are most curious about, which will be accompanied by selected quality cheeses, our own cured meats, piadina and our monovarietal and multivarietal EVO oil.

Throughout the experience, we will give space for your questions and requests for more in-depth information, such as on winemaking methodologies, olfactory perceptions or food-wine pairings. We are simply waiting for you like this, for a true sensory experience that will surely leave you curious to return.

Farmhouse lunch in the hills of Faenza allows you to experience a relaxing moment surrounded by greenery in the province of Ravenna.

You will be welcomed by an organic farm surrounded by olive trees, currants and medicinal plants, in a unique and evocative environment.

You can have lunch or dinner in a beautiful restaurant room made out of a carefully restored barn, where you will enjoy a familiar, refined and elegant atmosphere.

The restaurant offers traditional but at the same time creative and careful cuisine, with many specialties prepared with local products, carefully selected for their quality and typicality.

The full menu includes:

•    1 appetizer
•    1 first course or 1 second course
•    1 dessert
•    water
•    1 glass of wine

The restaurant does not have a children's menu, but younger children can choose a la carte dishes (payment for which will be made on site).

In case of food allergies and intolerances, it is possible to contact the facility after booking.

A farmhouse lunch among the vineyards in Faenza allows you to enjoy typical Romagna products in a charming atmosphere.

The kitchen has an in-house pasta laboratory and guarantees guests products born in the farmhouse and coming from Romagna farms or marked DOP or IGP.

It is possible to eat in the indoor rooms obtained from the old stable, on the patio and, in the warmer months, also in the outdoor garden.

The menu, following the trend of nature and the seasons, changes frequently, almost from month to month.

You can choose from several options.

Basic menu

The basic menu is customized to your taste and allows you to choose from a variety of courses. It includes:

•    1 appetizer
•    1 first course
•    1 main course with side dish
•    1 dessert
•    water
•    wine (1 bottle for every 3 people)
•    coffee
•    liquor

Wines will be matched by the facility (bottled white and red) according to the menuù chosen

Excluding reserve wines, passiti, sparkling wines and liquors (rum, vodka, whiskey and cocktails) which, if requested, will be charged separately

Menu with cake

This option includes a menu which will be customized according to your tastes that includes:

•    1 appetizer
•    1 first course
•    1 main course with side dish
•    1 portion of cake of gr 120
•    water
•    wine (1 bottle for every 3 people)
•    coffee
•    liquor

Wines will be matched by the facility (bottled white and red) according to the menuù chosen

Excluding reserve wines, passiti, sparkling wines and liquors (rum, vodka, whiskey and cocktails) which, if requested, will be charged separately

Full menu

The full menù includes:

•    1 appetizer
•    bis of first courses
•    1 main course with side dish
•    1 dessert
•    water
•    1 bottle of wine between Arlus (Romagna Albana dry DOCG) or Vigna dello Sperone (Romagna Sangiovese Superiore)

In case of food allergies and intolerances it is possible to contact the facility after booking.