Author name: Emilia Delizia

Ravenna is the port. Emilia-Romagna is the region. If your ship gives you a full day, there is enough time to get into the interior and see two of the things that make this part of Italy different from anywhere else. This excursion covers a Parmigiano Reggiano aging warehouse and your choice of a second […]

Ravenna’s mosaics take two to three hours. If your ship is in port for the day and you want to do something with the rest of it, the Romagna hills are an hour away by car and one of the best truffle territories in northern Italy. We run a truffle hunting experience in the Apennine

Ferrara is 30 minutes from Bologna, entirely car-free, and almost nobody goes. The Este dynasty built one of the most coherent Renaissance cities in Italy — a planned grid of palaces, an intact castle with a water-filled moat, nine kilometres of city walls you can cycle on — and then largely disappeared from the history

Ferrara’s historic centre is compact, flat, and car-free. Everything worth seeing is within 20 minutes’ walk of the Castello Estense. This route covers the main sites in a logical sequence — avoiding backtracking, using the best streets rather than the most direct ones — and takes 2.5 to 3 hours at a comfortable pace with

Ferrara is 30 minutes from Bologna by direct train. There are no reservations required, no connections, and no complicated logistics. You step off at a car-free medieval city that almost nobody visits, spend a day that will not resemble any other day trip in northern Italy, and are back in Bologna for dinner. It is

Ravenna’s mosaics are unlike anything else in Italy. The colours have not faded in fifteen hundred years, the figures hold a strange stillness, and the gold still catches the light the way it did when the craftsmen set the last tesserae. The problem most visitors have is standing in front of them without knowing what