You would think February to be a pretty uneventful month. After all, the Holidays have just come and gone, so what in the world is left for me to see out there? If you’ve booked your trip to Italy and are finding yourself in Bologna during February, fret not – there is plenty to see […]
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Ferrara is the only planned Renaissance city in Italy that was actually completed. Every other city in the peninsula grew organically over centuries; Ferrara was designed. Under the Este dynasty, which ruled from the 13th to the 16th century, the city was laid out according to Humanist principles — wide straight streets, proportioned piazzas, palaces
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Ferrara sits between Bologna and the Po Delta and has its own food identity that belongs fully to neither. It shares the region’s love of fresh egg pasta and aged cured meats, but the Este court’s taste for the theatrical — sweet-and-savory combinations, elaborate pastry casings, spices from the medieval trade routes — produced dishes
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