Emilia-Romagna, explored through its landscape, history, food traditions and local identity. Emilia-Romagna is often presented as Italy’s great Food Valley, but that description is only the beginning. The region stretches from the Po River and the western plains around Piacenza to the Adriatic coast of Rimini, with the Apennines forming its southern backbone. Between them run Roman roads, medieval communes, Renaissance courts, agricultural estates, fishing ports, university c