Amalfi Coast in winter
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The Amalfi coast offers some fantastic geological features but from the point of view of the motorhome traveller it is a complete waste of time. There are very few places to stop, almost nowhere to spend the night and to cap it off idiots trhowing fireworks at vehicles, or in my case, a firework was lit on the windscreen which broke it. This happened in Maori. The weather was the coldest the peninsula had suffered since 1970 so that was an exception but my overall impression is to give it a miss.
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Located in Ravenna (Punta Marina), Terme Beach Resort is within the vicinity of Bagno Arcobaleno and Marina Romea Beach. This beach hotel is within the vicinity of Mausoleum of Theodoric and Rocca Brancaleone.
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Presentata a Ravenna la Romagna Visit Card 2018
14/04/2018 - Presentata a Ravenna la Romagna Visit Card 2018, un'opportunità per il turista che vuole conoscere la cultura e non solo in Romagna.
Ha fatto il suo esordio nel weekend di Pasqua, la Romagna Visit Card 2018, card turistica che ha accolto i primi turisti giunti a Ravenna, ma anche a Forlì-Cesena, Rimini e Ferrara con la sua offerta completa e integrata che è arrivata quest’anno a includere oltre 130 siti turistici all’interno della Destinazione Romagna. Per 55 di questi, garantisce l’ingresso gratuito a bellezze locali di varia natura (artistica, culturale…), mentre sono 70 le altre strutture del circuito per le quali sono previsti sconti (fino al 50%) o altre forme di agevolazioni: tutte insieme vanno a comporre un pacchetto che, a fronte dei 17 Euro del costo (invariato rispetto al 2017) della card, permette un risparmio di circa 280 Euro (rispetto all’acquisto dei corrispondenti biglietti a prezzo intero di tutti i siti convenzionati).
L’offerta a disposizione di visitatori e residenti spazia come sempre tra cultura, natura, benessere, accoglienza, divertimento, altre agevolazioni ed omaggi, tutto in un unico strumento di estrema comodità, poiché esiste sia in formato digitale, da portare sempre con sé sul proprio smartphone, oppure nella tradizionale forma cartacea (acquistabile in circa 70 punti vendita).
A Ravenna e dintorni, punte di diamante dell’offerta, tra i siti ad entrata gratuita, si confermano i patrimoni Unesco della Basilica di Sant’Apollinare in Classe e del Mausoleo di Teodorico, ma anche la Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra, Cripta Rasponi e Giardini Pensili, le collezioni permanenti del MAR Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna, il Museo Nazionale, TAMO, la Casa delle Marionette e il Museo NatuRA a Sant’Alberto. Non solo, a pochi chilometri di distanza, i titolari della card hanno la possibilità di visitare gratuitamente anche la straordinaria mostra “L’Eterno e il Tempo tra Michelangelo e Caravaggio”, allestita ai Musei San Domenico di Forlì, il Museo Delta Antico a Comacchio, la Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena, ma anche il MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, il neoclassico Palazzo Milzetti e il Museo Carlo Zauli a Faenza, la Domus del Chirurgo e il Museo della Città di Rimini, il Museo della Marineria di Cesenatico, MUSA, Museo del Sale di Cervia e tanti altri.
Il circuito dei siti ad ingresso ridotto include, nel Ravennate, l’Antico Porto di Classe e il Planetario, ma anche l’Abbazia di Pomposa e la Rocca Malatestiana di Cesena insieme ad eventi culturali (Ravenna Festival, Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest), spettacoli in cartellone nei principali teatri romagnoli (“Alighieri” di Ravenna e il programma comico del “Diego Fabbri” di Forlì), parchi di divertimento ed attrazioni (CerviAvventura, il Labirinto Dedalo di Savio, lo Skydive Pull Out di Ravenna, fino ad Aquafan e Oltremare di Riccione, Acquario di Cattolica e Indiana Park della Fratta) e stabilimenti termali (Punta Marina, ma anche Cervia e Riolo Terme, oltre a Bagno di Romagna, Castrocaro, Fratta Terme, Riccione e Rimini). Per chi desidera immergersi nel verde e nella quiete della natura, la card offre la possibilità di accedere, con agevolazioni e omaggi, alla Casa delle Farfalle di Milano Marittima, alle escursioni organizzate da Cervia Turismo, al cammino di Sant’Antonio (dal Parco del Carnè fino a La Verna), a quello della via Romea Germanica (ad esempio da Casal Borsetti a Ravenna, fino a Bagno di Romagna) e a quello di San Vicinio (sulle colline cesenati con arrivo e partenza da Sarsina).
Per favorire gli spostamenti tra le differenti località, la Romagna Visit Card 2018 propone il Romagna Smart Pass di Start Romagna (durata 3 o 7 giorni) oltre ad uno sconto per chi utilizza il Wild Bus, il divertente mezzo che percorre il Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, alla scoperta del patrimonio Unesco della Riserva di Sasso Fratino.
Hotel Pierina, Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, Italy - The Right Room
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Located in Castrocaro Terme, Hotel Pierina offers free Wi-Fi and air-conditioned rooms with a flat-screen TV. This hotel also features a garden and a bar. Free bike hire is available on site.
Latitude 44.1733360259165, Longitude 11.9477578997612, zip 47011, County Italy, City Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, Address Via Nicola Guccerelli 17
Italian Wine, Azienda Agricola Maccari Graziano
The Wonderful Wine of the Region of Veneto
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©Lucia Barbini Falcone
During my last visit in Italy, my brother-in-law, Bepi, drove his friend Paolo and I to the Azienda Agricola Maccari Graziano: the small agriculture company where he personally buys his delectable wines. As we drove, Bepi assured us that well experience once again la bella vita.
The Azienda Agricola Maccari Graziano, is situated in the heart of Visnà di Vazzola, a small village in the northeast part of Italy, 50 kilometers north of Venice.
A welcoming committee made up of the two Maccaris grown children, Graziano and Ferdinando, and their father and mother greets us with much enthusiasm.
Signor Ferdinando is the one who explains the history of their Azienda Agricola, the art of wine making, and answers all my questions.
Information flows from Signor Ferdinando like the wine his Brother Graziano transfers from the huge metal container into the flask.
Our wine is the best, says Signor Ferdinando as he points to his brother. We do not adulterate our wine. E genuino, Its pure.
Signor Ferdinando gives me and my friends a tour of his family farm and tells us its history. Great-grandfather Maccari started the vineyard in the late nineteenth century. In 1998 Maccaris grandchild, Signor Graziano, a shy man of forty with a family of six, took over the activity after his uncle retired. He then constructed a new cantina in the same place as the old one, purchased the newest equipment, and with much enthusiasm continued the family tradition of wine making.
La passione è nel sangue, The passion is in the blood, says Maccari Sr. with much pride. My Son Graziano has worked in our vineyard since he was this big. He places his right hand to his waist to show how tall Signor Graziano was when he started working in the family farm.
Maccari Sr. smiles benevolently, bids us an Ill see you later, with a wave of his hand and tells us that later hell show us the barn, his pride and joy.
Sr. Ferdinando, tells us that he joined the Graziano Maccari Azienda Agricola a few years ago to take care of the business facet of it.
The Maccari Azienda Agricola produces different types of wine, he says with pride: Prosecco, Chardonet, Merlot, Cabernet, and Raboso which is the typical wine from the Piave area.
The Raboso is our best. Yes, our best together with the Prosecco. To produce the wine they use only grapes from their territory. The most important factor about the wine is that it isnt artificially altered.
What are the elements necessary to produce a vino di alta qualità, a high quality wine? I ask turning to Signor Graziano. In breve, in short, Signor Graziano tells us, several elements contribute to the quality of the wine; primarily, the climate, the territory and of course its biological entity.
As far as the climate, there are several things to consider such as the temperature, the light, and the rain preceding the time of the vendemmia, harvest, all elements that influence the maturation of the grapes.
The territory determines the typicality of the wine which is the essence of the Viticultura Classica Europea. One of the most important aspects of the territory is the diversity of its components.
However, Signor Graziano explains that the star ingredient is the knowledge one brings into the art of wine making, the sensitivity to understand the correlation between the territory, the grape, and the process of fermentation.
For that, Signor Ferdinando interrupts, we have Graziano, who relates to wine as he relates to his children. Wine is his first child, he says with a smile.
Signor Ferdinando, as well, talks about how hed like to enter the International Market, and of the difficulties for a small Azienda Agricola to enter it, due to certain Italian laws which make it hard to compete with other wine producing countries.
After a tour of the farm with Maccari Sr., we are escorted to the office where Signora Maccari, a cheerful woman of sixty is holding a bucket full of eggs in one hand, and a dish of award winning sopressa, salami, in the other, which the Maccaris also sell. She bids us to sit down and enjoy the sopressa, a piece of fresh bread, and of course, a glass of their best Prosecco chilled to perfection.
Salute, Signori Maccari! Bepi, our friend Paolo and I raise our glasses with our compliments and best wishes. We shake hands with the whole Maccari family, and load the six cases of their best wine into the car. A smiling, satisfy Bepi hops in the front seat, eager to get home and to try the new Raboso del Piave Signor Ferdinando has suggested to him.
Lucia Barbibi Falcone: Falcon7072@aol.com
Azienda Agricola MACCARI GRAZIANO
Via Crosere, 7
31021 Visnà di Vazzola (TV) Italy
Tel. 00139 0438 443971
e-mail: tnf@libero.it