Specialities, Emilia Romagna

Mora Romagnola (Foto di Fabio Liverani)
Mora Romagnola (Foto di Fabio Liverani)

Part of the pleasure of a holiday is trying new foods, whether as snacks or wholesome meals. In Italy the list of foods famous for their taste and originality is endless: there are our cheeses and cold meats, our fruit and vegetables, our cereals like rice and buckwheat, our honey. In Italy the tourist who loves good food can confound choice itself.
In this section we will reveal the characteristics and flavours of some of our most famous typical dishes, knowing that it was impossible to resist tasting them during your stay in Italy.

Lamb and Mutton, Quality Controlled Products

Typical of the rural traditions of Romagna, these Controlled Quality (QC) meats are obtained from lambs and sheep raised according to a strict regimen of production with clearly defined rules. » Visit

Mora Romagnola

This is the name of the 335 thousand black pigs that once populated the valleys and hills of the Apenines in Romagna. The species was so named in Faenza in 1942, in the course of a meeting about livestock when the characteristics of the breed were precisely defined. » Visit

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