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Amici di Italy Magazine,
Modena still remains the 'floridissima' (prosperous) city that Cicero described. Once notorious as the stage for the war between Brutus and Mark Anthony, today it is better known for Pavarotti, Ferrari, Lambrusco wine and balsamic vinegar.
Although history has endowed the city with a wealth of impressive architectural and artistic treasures, the relative compact urban layout of the city centre makes a one day visit to the city quite manageable. In our Day Tripper dedicated to Modena, Silvia Donati explains how to get the most out of a day in the city where you can visit Piazza Grande, a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Cathedral and the Ghirlandina tower, while shopping for the best aceto balsamico in the world.
And just few kilometers away, perched on a hill overlooking the valley of the river Sellustra, you can visit Dozza, near Bologna. A medieval village right on the border between Emilia and Romagna, surrounded by vineyards and classified as one of the "100 most beautiful Italian borghi (historic villages)." Do not miss our feature about Emilia-Romagna wines to find out what the region has to offer, then head to the well-stocked wine cellar of the Enoteca Regionale Emilia Romagna, right in the centre of Dozza, where you can taste the 'vini emiliani', Sangiovese, Gutturnio, Lambrusco, Pignoletto, etc and choose among 1,000 labels from 260 regional wine producers.
And as there is no 'Emiliano' more famous than Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, we continued with our series dedicate to the 200th anniversary of his birth Homage to Verdi dedicated to Don Carlo.
This year we created a 2013 Italy Magazine desktop wallpaper calendar. We hope you liked the idea and downloaded the first months. It is now possible to download the September page.
A presto!
ITALY team
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