Noi romagnoli siamo proprio fortunati: in posizione ottimale per raggiungere sia il mare che la collina, il nostro piccolo lembo di terra ci offre tantissime opportunità per godere della natura in ogni sua espressione. D’estate, infatti, quando la calura è opprimente abbiamo il mare a portata di mano: da Gabicce a Riccione, da Rimini a Cesenatico, da Cervia e Milano Marittina possiamo raggiungere velocemente le spiagge più belle della riviera romagnola. E le stesse località sono ugualmente vicine in inverno, quando le passeggiate sulla battigia hanno quel che di malinconico che le rende ancor più affascinanti. Allo stesso tempo, poi, possiamo raggiungere in tutta tranquillità le comunità montane del Montefeltro e del Casentino e godere di splendidi scenari naturali durante tutto l’arco dell’anno. Ma soprattutto abbiamo a disposizione un’ampia scelta di località attraverso le quali evadere dalla routine quotidiana per tornare a contatto con la natura.
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I live in Romagna and, as you may know, this makes me very lucky: equally distant from both hills and the seaside, this little piece of land offers plenty of opportunities to enjoy each and every aspect of nature. During the summertime, when heat becomes unbearable the sea and the most known beaches of Romagna such as Gabicce, Riccione, Rimini, Cesenatico, Cervia and Milano Marittima are within easy reach. In winter as well, when walking on the beach is at the same time gloomy and fascinating, these same beaches are still very close. Besides the seaside, Romagna gives easy access to the hills too, as you can reach Montefeltro or Casentino and enjoy outstanding natural sceneries during the whole year. But most of all, depending on everybody’s own wishes you can choose among many places to escape daily routine and go back to a peaceful nature.
I’m pretty sure we locals don’t even know all the jewels our region hides and the fact that such places are so near could perhaps be a reason for this. For instance, despite I live very near to Rimini I visited Verucchio for the first time two weeks ago in occasion of the Rimini Tipica blog tour. Verucchio had often been a proposed destination for a daily tour within my group of friends, but for several reasons – not last its closeness to home, which makes it reachable any time you wish to go there – this daily trip’s never happened so far. So I have to thank the Typical Rimini Hotels for organizing the excursion to Verucchio: our guide’s true passion for our territory helped me discover the charm of this little town rich in history and arts and the beautiful viewpoints you can enjoy on either the Valmarecchia or the Adriatic coastline totally conquered me.
Between the 11th and the 6th centuries b.C. after a people of Etruscan origins selected the place as home for its own settlement Verucchio had been an extraordinarily developed centre of the Villanova civilization. At the local archaeological Museum you can see artefacts in wood and bronze, jewels, arms and instruments of daily life dating back to the Iron Age. However the village reached its pinnacle of glory many centuries later thanks to the Malatesta dynasty that mastered all the towns, villages and fortresses in the inland of the region from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, setting Verucchio at the centre of their strategic system of territory control.
Developed by Malatesta di Verucchio – the “ancient Mastiff” as Dante Alighieri calls him in the “Divine Comedy” – in the 13th century, the fortified system of the village is based on walls, medieval gates and the famous Malatesta fortress. It had then been remoulded in the 15th century by Sigismondo Malatesta, one of the best known exponents of the family. The fortress rules the surrounding valley offering lovely sightseeing of both the Adriatic coastline and the valley of the Marecchia, as well as the buildings and palaces that make part of the medieval village. You can access the interior of the fortress, a must see if you’d like to get a hint of the court life of that time. Besides the family tree, several arms and armours of the Middle Ages are exposed in the Great Hall, while in a separated room you can see the ingredients and typical recipes of that period.
To be continued…