Friendly territory, the land "with a soul", Emilia Romagna offers a lot of places for the visitor to discover, rare art treasures and unusual places. So if you feel like moving around you will find what you are looking for: try out the suggested institutional sites, which offer the starting point for getting to know the people, the nature, the art and the spirit of our territory.
List of tourist routes: Open-air | Historical-Cultural Trails | Bicycle Trails | A stroll in the green | Spiritual Trails
Open-air
Outdoors: Emilia-Romagna in camper Twenty-eight itineraries in nature, to historic and cultural places, and dedicated to discovering great local food, with stopping places, maps, and information sheets about the destinations; this is what you can find on this site dedicated to people who love campers. Curated by the Tourism Service and Quality Tourist Areas of the Region.
Historical-Cultural Trails
Itineraries in the Landscapes of Author
Motivations for the journey, followed by some indications of thematic itineraries among the lands connected to the Great Figures of the Italian Culture. Discover their beauties through the eyes, the words, the music and the art of the Great Artists that lived there leaving a permanent mark of their inner feelings in the magic of these places.
Viva Verdi
Discovering well-known and obscure places in Emilia linked to this great composer's life through two fundamental and closely intertwined cultural and historical events of the 1800s: the melodrama and the Italian Risorgimento.
The Lands of Matilde di Canossa
The website offers the possibility to do a virtual travel in the tourist paradises of art and excellent gastronomy in the provinces of Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena and Ferrara.
European Streets of Historical Theaters
This Italian itinerary, curated by the Association of Historical Theaters of Europe, runs through the northern regions, the only place in the world where it is possible to follow the history of the Theater from the Renaissance to the 19th century. In the region of Emilia Romagna, the itinerary passes through Parma, Carpi, Bologna, San Giovanni in Persiceto, Faenza and Cesena.
Bicycle Trails
CYCLER. Cities of Art Cycling Itineraries
A long main connects the towns of Modena, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì and Faenza, from Emilia to Romagna, from the Apennines to the sea. The most charming itineraries inside the town centres are highlighted on the map and available as navigation files. Out of town, secondary itineraries and variations allow you to discover the nature, hills, small towns and villages of the area.
Cycling Tourism in the Province of Ferrara More than fifty touristic cycling routes along the river Po, in the marshes of the Delta Park, in the cities if art along the Ferrara coast, supplied with PDF maps, GPS data and Google Earth inputs. Provided by the Ferrara Tourism Office.
A stroll in the green
WebTrails
This website has been realized in the sphere of the excursionistic cartography project, with the results of 15 maps 1.50.000 scale of Appennino emiliano-romagnolo created by non-sistematic updates over more than 60% of the informations gathered by on site surveys.
Spiritual Trails
The Via Francigena
A historical itinerary leading to Rome from Canterbury, a major route which in the past was used by thousands of pilgrims on their way to Rome. Online you can find a map of the whole route with detailed information about foot paths and accommodations.
The Via dei Romei
By land, by sea and through the Apennines, this route includes the most important legs of the journey made by pilgrims in antiquity coming from the northeast to go to Rome.
Paths of the light
Link to the spiritual routes: "Il Sentiero Matilde, la Via Bibulca e la Via Romea Nonantolana", once again accessible by foot and on bicycle, thanks to clear indications and signs.