UNESCO's Treasures

In 1972, with the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, the world’s nations came together under the auspices of UNESCO to formally recognize and conserve heritage of value and importance not just to one community, but to all of humanity. It was agreed that their loss would constitute an impoverishment of the world’s shared heritage, and thus we must protect these places deemed to have “Outstanding Universal Value.”

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DAY 1 and 2

Parma UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy

is In this part of Italy, there are so many places famous for their culinary delights. So many Italian traditional dishes, in fact, come from here, Emilia Romagna region, renowned also as the Food Valley.

Parma and Emilia-romagna Region hold a record breaking number of local products protected by DOP (Denomination of Controlled Origin) and IGP (Protected Geographical Indication) marks.

Guided tour of a dairy during the production of Parmigiano Reggiano DOP and final tasting of different maturations: its unique and unstable taste is a journey through nine centuries of history, preserving the passion for things made with care.

Guided tour of a prosciuttificio: the uniqueness of this territory, an extremely limited area, is precisely that it has ideal climatic conditions for natural curing, which gives that unmistakable sweetness and taste to Prosciutto di Parma DOP. Tasting

DAY 3

Modena’s UNESCO sites: Cathedral, Torre Civica, and Piazza Grande (inscribed in 1997).

The Cathedral of Modena, with its striking Romanesque architecture, is a masterpiece by architect Lanfranco and sculptor Wiligelmo. Together with the Torre Civica (Ghirlandina) and Piazza Grande, it represents the power and spirituality that defined the city in the Middle Ages.

Guided tour of a family acetaia where the maturation, refinement and aging of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena DOP takes place. Tasting lunch with Emilia's most precious nectar.

DAY 4  and 5

To visit the Unesco World Heritage monuments of Ravenna is to travel through the history of Italy, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the central centuries of the Middle Ages.

They preserve stunning polychrome mosaics of early Christian and Byzantine age, sites dating back between the 5th and the 6th century AD, which represent the artistic splendour of this city during a crucial time for the history of Europe, namely between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages.

In Cesena, there is a place suspended in time where everything seems crystallised since the 15th century. With its 350,000 volumes, the Malatestiana Library represents amonumental and bibliographical complex of inestimable value.

UNESCO (inscribed in 2005) recognised its importance by selecting the library as the first ever Italian site to include in the Memory of the World Register.

If you are wondering what makes this place so unique, note that la Malatestiana is the only 15th-century monastic library of humanist heritage, in Europe, in perfect condition.

Forlimpopoli, on the via Emilia, between Forlì and Cesena, is the native town of Pellegrino Artusi, acknowledged father of modern cookery and great promoter of the Italian language, he is the author of, Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, the first italian national cook book.

"Italian cuisine, between sustainability and biocultural diversity" as been nominated a UNESCO intangible heritage site and the evaluation process should be completed by December 2025.

Casa Artusi Foundation has joined this ambitious project from the beginning in drafting the dossier and as a proposing community.

Would cuisine therefore be an "intangible" heritage? The idea is not so obvious if we are slicing zucchini or enjoying tortellini. But it must be clear that it is not the products or the recipes that are candidates, but rather the knowledge, the savoir-faire, the gestures from which those realities arise. Ultimately, the way of thinking and relating to food culture. Massimo Montanari (Alma mater University of Bologna)

DAY 6

The porticoes of Bologna are a selection of 12 porticoes that reflect the different architectural typologies found in the overall 62km of Bologna’s porticoed pathways, the largest porticoe system in the world.

*  Guided Tour of Parma city centre (2 hours)

*  Guided Tour of a Parmigiano Reggiano producer and tasting

*  Guided Tour of a Prosciutto di Parma producer and tasting

*  Guided Tour of Modena city centre (2 hours)

*  Guided Tour of a family Acetaia – aceto balsamico Tradizionale di Modena producer and tasting lunch

*  Guided Tour of Ravenna city centre (2 hours)

*  Guided Tour of Malatestiana Library in Cesena (2 hours)

*  Guided Tour, cooking demo and tasting lunch at Casa Artusi in Forlimpopoli (2 hours)

*  2 Dinner in gourmet osteria

*  2 Lunch in gourmet osteria

*  2 night in Parma, 2 breakfast

*  3 night in Ravenna, 3 breakfast