Strada dei Vini di Romagna Two days along the Apennine foothills south of the Via Emilia, from Faenza to Bertinoro. It links the Sangiovese villages of Brisighella, Modigliana and Predappio with the Albana hill of Bertinoro, following the two official Romagna wine roads.

What to taste here

• Romagna AlbanaDOCG Scacco Matto, the botrytis passito, is the reason the estate is famous
• Pietramora The estate's top Sangiovese, from the Marzeno hills

Via Vicchio 11, Marzeno di Faenza. Cellar visits are sold through the estate's own online portal, so book before you leave Faenza. Taste the Pietramora Sangiovese beside the Albana.

Where to taste

What to taste here

• Sangiovese di RomagnaDOC Brisighella is a named subzone: higher, cooler and herbal
• Brisighella DOP oil The olive oil the village is as proud of as its wine; pour it on the piadina

Walk the covered Via degli Asini and climb to the clock tower. The village has no camera gate; park in the car parks by the station below the village. Pork festival on the first Sunday of November, olive oil festival on the fourth.

Where to taste

Where to eat

Romagna pasta in a cave under the donkey street

Ristorante La Grotta. Via Antonio Metelli 1, in the old gypsum caves under the Via degli Asini; Mirko Conti chooses the wine list. Ring 0546 81488.

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What to taste here

• Sangiovese di RomagnaDOC Modigliana's three valleys, Tramazzo, Acerreta and Ibola, each give a different Sangiovese
• Ronco della Simia Ronchi di Castelluccio's single-vineyard Sangiovese, the cru that made the village's name

Ronchi di Castelluccio, Via Tramonto 15, offers a 10 euro vineyard and cellar tour and three tastings from 25 to 67 euros, by phone or email. Villa Papiano and the growers' association pour together at Stella dell'Appennino each September. Sleep here: the next leg is 40 minutes of hill road.

What to taste here

• Sangiovese di RomagnaDOC Predappio is the subzone for structure: firm tannin and red fruit off the spungone rock
• Vigna del Generale Nicolucci's Riserva from a vineyard planted over 90 years ago by an army general

Nicolucci's Vigna del Generale is the bottle to find. Predappio Alta is the vineyard village above the modern town; the modern town itself was rebuilt in the 1920s and 1930s and looks it.

Where to eat

Cappelletti al ragù and the ox cooked on the gypsy's stick

Ristorante da Loro. Via Roma 51, 100 metres from the centre. Cappelletti 11 euros, the bue nel bastone della zingara 20; Andrea Lombini runs it.

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What to taste here

• Sangiovese di RomagnaDOC Vigna del Pruno is the house Riserva; taste it against the village wines
• Bordeaux blends Claudio Drei Donà planted Cabernet here in the 1980s, chateau-style, and still does

The 90-minute visit ends with three wines in the old stables, with homemade bread and the estate's oil, 25 euros, under-18s free. Monday to Saturday at 10.30 and 15.30, groups up to twelve, booked on 0543 769371 or [email protected].

Where to taste

What to taste here

• Romagna AlbanaDOCG The dry Albana on its home hill, at 100 to 350 metres on spungone
• Pagadebit di RomagnaDOC The white the village kept for paying debts; ask for it at the enoteca
• Sangiovese di RomagnaDOC Bertinoro's Sangiovese is the historic subzone: salty and full

Park below the walls on Via Badia or Via Allende and walk up. The Colonna delle Anella on the piazza is where travellers once tied their horses and were taken in by the family whose ring they chose. The Festa dell'Ospitalità runs 4 to 7 September 2026.

Where to eat

Tagliatelle al ragù and the bolliti, with 400 Romagna wines

Ca' de Bè. Piazza della Libertà 9/b, on the balcony itself, open since the late 1960s. Lunch and dinner every day except Wednesday; the list runs to 400 labels from Imola to Rimini.

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