Undiscovered Italy spring FAM trips unveiled

Country house accommodation, fun Italian cookery class, superb fresh local dining, wine tastings, fascinating visits – will warm your heart!

Join one of our exceptional and different FAM trips to undiscovered Romagna as a treasured guest where you will enjoy experiences that truly warm your heart.

What our travel agent guests said in 2016: "My clients they deserve to see this part of italy that’s not really known and its beautiful" "Breathtaking mosaics – something you just can’t imagine" "On every corner of the street there’s a story and someone wanting to tell it to you" "After Rome it was so nice to be here without that craziness" "You see smiles, graciousness and you see fun – you want to be a part of it and its so easy because everyone welcomes you"

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

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

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

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 – 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.

And it has another really important aspect that you and your clients will feel everywhere you go.

Whether you’re shopping or eating, walking or talking, in Romagna you can always expect old-fashioned courtesy, kindness and care. Here you can feel totally relaxed in the knowledge that your (and your clients’) visit is really important and worthwhile.

Because, in Romagna you are not just another tourist as you may be in many places nowadays – here you are indeed a treasured guest.

Romagna has been recently rated as one of the world’s top 100 Green Destinations for very good reason – it offers visitors experiences that really warm their hearts.

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

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

The FAM trips to Romagna cost: $595 per travel agent (partners and spouses welcome – cost $795  subject to space). Single room supplement $250 – all 100% refundable on post-FAM business

The trips include: Return transfers from Bologna Airport, 5 nights country house accommodation in 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 – and its sales opportunities

In 6 days, participants will:

• Meet the people that make little Romagna one of the world’s greatest opportunities for travel agents
• Learn to cook a local speciality in "Italy’s Best Cookery School"
• Taste the region’s great olive oils in a 500-year old olive grove
• Try some of Italy’s best wines in the extraordinarily beautiful surroundings of three superb vineyards
• Take an artisan & fashion shopping trip
• Taste delicious local prosciuttos, salamis, breads, cheeses and more
• Experience the glistening 1500-year old basilicas and mosaics in ravishing Ravenna
• Visit the fabulous mountaintop UNESCO World Heritage Republic of San Marino
• Walk in Leonardo da Vinci’s port – Venetian Cesenatico
• See stunning fairytale hilltop castles and extraordinary views throughout Romagna
• Visit Romagna’s lovely art-cities and villages

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.

Email expressions of interest as soon as possible to [email protected]

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

ABOUT ROMAGNA:

Astonishing Treasure Chest

Romagna has one of the most astonishing treasure chests of heritage, culture and hospitality in the world. Its small area includes pretty fishing ports, wonderful vineyard covered, fairytale castle topped hillsides and astonishingly rich cities of art.

Old World Courtesy, Care, Kindness

And in Romagna you are not just another tourist as you may be in many places nowadays – here you are indeed a treasured guest. Wherever you are you can always expect old-fashioned courtesy, kindness and care.

Great food, wine and hospitality

Romagna has an unbelievable range of great local food and wine. Superb hillside vineyards, wonderful olive groves, great local meats, salamis, prosciuttos, a vast variety of fruits and nuts. It is arguably the birthplace of Italian cuisine with one of the best cookery foundations in Italy started by Pellegrino Artusi – the ‘Father of Italian Cookery’. And its reputation for generous hospitality is second to none

Walkable Art and History Heritage

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

 Other major art cities include the hilltop festival-city of Santarcangelo, the Sforza city of Dozza with its atmospheric castle, wine museum and its biannual festival of murals on houses. The ancient ceramic city of Faenza, the lovely Venetian-influenced resort and fishing port of Cesenatico.

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.

And Atmospheric Hilltop Castles Galore

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. All add to Romagna’s atmospheric beauty and charm.