Springtime total wellbeing FAM trips to Italy’s Romagna unveiled

Green treats include, great food, wine and cookery course, wine, food and olive oil tastings

Spring into the heart of Italy’s springtime with festivals, food, wine, fairytale castles, fun cooking course and great winetastings in a secret corner of paradise between Venice and Florence, the Apennines and the Adriatic.

Repeated for 2017 due to great agent experiences in 2016 and great business results!

See 2- minute videos of travel agents exploring Romagna in 2016 here:

Wine and food and accommodation HERE

Ravenna and food and wine HERE

Learning to cook Italian HERE

Romagna spring 2017 destination FAM experiences are now open for applications from travel agents, tour operators, group and MICE organizers, and spouses/partners to experience this unique area.

Applications are invited for a special spring FAM trips to the wonderfully picturesque ancient Italian region of Romagna.

Between Venice and Florence, the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic Sea – Romagna is known as the ‘Heart of Italy’. Authentic, natural and much less touristy than many other Italian destinations, Romagna is revered throughout Italy for its warm hospitality, the quality of its local food and wine, its stunningly beautiful countryside, its hundreds of fairytale hilltop castles and its major cities of art.

It has just been revealed as one of the world’s top100 sustainable destinations

"Italy’s Best Kept Secret" – said noted US food and wine writer Janice Nieder read story  HERE

FAM trip eligible participants will include travel agents, tour operators, group organizers, and spouses/partners from all over the world.

There are nominal charges for the FAM trips but this will be 100% refunded depending on post-FAM results (bookings or coverage).

The FAM trips to Romagna "Total Wellbeing" will cost: $595 per person (partners and spouses welcome cost $795  subject to space) Single room supplement $250 – all refundable on post-FAM business

The trips include: Return transfers from Bologna Airport, 5 nights 4**** accommodation in green Romagna with all meals, guided excursions specially-arranged tastings of local produce including food, wine, olive oils, a hands-on cookery class to make fabulous pasta and an informal workshop to understand the area – in particular its green tourism and marketing opportunities.

In 6 days, participants will:

• See the initiatives and people that make little Romagna one of the world’s top sustainable destinations
• Enjoy astonishingly good local food and wine
• Learn to cook a local speciality in "Italy’s Best Cookery School" at Casa Artusi
• Taste some of the region’s greatest olive oils in a 500-year old olive grove
• Try some of Italy’s best wines in the extraordinarily beautiful surroundings of  three beautiful wine-growing areas – Dozza, Bertinoro and Longiano
• Take an atrisan shopping trip
• Taste delicious local prosciuttos, salamis, breads, cheeses and pastries
• Visit the fabulous mountaintop UNESCO World Heritage Republic of San Marino
• Walk in Leonardo da Vinci’s port, of Venetian Cesenatico
• Experience the glistening 1500-year old basilicas and mosaics in ravishing Ravenna
• See stunning fairytale hilltop castles and extraordinary views throughout Romagna
• Visit Romagna’s lovely art-cities and villages

There will be up to 100% post-FAM refund depending on post-FAM marketing results.

Very small group departure dates: 2, 9 April, 7, 14 May. Numbers for all trips are strictly limited and therefore criteria will apply.

Departures will fill up quickly so early action is strongly recommended.

Best of Romagna has everything a travel agent needs to create and promote a great group experience. Check out:

Photo gallery HERE

Agents download page (including agent’s manual and FAQs) HERE

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ABOUT ROMAGNA:

In a small area including pretty fishing ports, wonderful vineyard covered, fairytale castle topped hillsides and astonishing cities of art – Romagna has one of the most astonishing treasure chests of heritage, culture and hospitality in the world.

The World Heritage city of Ravenna itself, world famous for its mosaics, was three times capital of the Roman Empire and has no less than 8 UNESCO sites all around 1500 years old.

Within the borders of Romagna there is the ancient ceramic art city of Faenza, the lovely Venetian-influenced resort and fishing port of Cesenatico (surveyed by Leonardo da Vinci) and historic hillside vineyards including in wine-centres such as Bertinoro.

Major art cities include serene Cesena (where there is the oldest library in the world), Forli with incredibly eclectic architecture from the middle ages to Mussolini’s brutalist Art Deco, festival-city Santarcangelo, and the Sforza city of Dozza with its atmospheric castle, wine museum and its biannual festival of murals on houses.

The world’s oldest republic – San Marino, at the top of mount Titano – towers over the area – this extraordinary world heritage site, and fiercely independent state is walkable history.

Romagna has an incredible legacy of atmospheric medieval hill and mountaintop castles, and citadels – it is said over 300 – built by the Montefeltro, Sforza, Este and the Malatesta families – and by various Popes.

Romagna is arguably also the birthplace of Italian cuisine. It has the best cookery school in Italy as part of an unique foundation started by a Romagnolo man – Pellegrino Artusi . Artusi is known to Italians all over the world as the father of Italian cookery.