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Celebrate the Christmas holidays in Emilia Romagna

The Christmas holidays can be the right occasion to get to know our region.

Nativity scenes, markets, concerts, shows, exhibitions and many other events await you to celebrate in our company.

To facilitate the choice, here is the selection of:

• Christmas events
• Ideas for New Year’s
• Celebrations for the Epiphany (Befana in italian)

And if still not convinced, know that visiting Emilia Romagna until the end of the year is worth:

• Visiting Parma, Capital of Italian Culture 2020 + 21, will be cheaper if you decide to stay 2 nights, the second night is free, so you can get to know the little Emilian Paris better ...
• Discovering Modena province will be even more surprising: by staying at least 2 nights you receive a voucher (up to 40% of the cost of the stay) to be spent in restaurants, shops, tours, tourist services and museums.
• Getting to know Ferrara, the capital of the Renaissance, will be even more interesting by participating in the guided tour "Telling Ferrara - standard or Reinassence edition", free of charge in the event of a stay in the affiliated structures.

Open Theaters are back in Emilia

From 4 to 8 December 2021 the Open Theaters are back in Emilia.

The ancient theaters of the three Emilian provinces (Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia) are extraordinarily popular with the public with a packed calendar of special visits to historic theaters.

The right opportunity to discover the secrets of 16 historic theaters and experience what lies behind the curtain ...

Let us take you behind the scenes to learn about the artistic and architectural wonders as well as fascinating stories mostly unknown ...

There are many dedicated guided tours: to find yours, just choose a province.

Open Theaters in Piacenza
Open Theaters in Parma
Open Theaters in Reggio Emilia

Emilia is the land of Giuseppe Verdi but also of great playwrights, comedy writers, artists and musicians.

Here the theaters are not just a place for shows and intriguing events, but real works of art to be admired and experienced.

Are you ready to go on an experiential journey into the heart of the historical theaters of Emilia?

Modena, UNESCO creative city for Media Arts

UNESCO defines a new recognition for Emilia Romagna.

Modena has just been nominated UNESCO Creative City 2021 for Media Arts, the first Italian city of this cluster.

Creativity, digital culture, artificial intelligence: confirming that innovation lives #inEmiliaRomagna.

With 13 recognized places, Emilia Romagna is an important protagonist of the Italian team: discover them all!

Four World Heritage Sites of Humanity

• Ferrara, city of the Renaissance, and the Po Delta -1995
• Early Christian monuments of Ravenna - 1996
• Modena: Cathedral, Civic Tower and Piazza Grande - 1997
• Forest of Sasso Fratino in the context of Ancient primordial beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe - 2017

Nine other Unesco awards

• Malatesta Library of Cesena - Register of the Memory of the World - 2005
• Abbey of Santa Cecilia alla Croara - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2005
• Bologna - Creative City of Music - 2006
• Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2010
• MIC - International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2011
• Parma - Creative City of Gastronomy - 2015
• Tuscan-Emilian Apennines - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2015
• Delta del Po Park - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2015
• Po Grande - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2019
• Modena - Creative City 2021 for Media Arts - 2021

Humans of Emilia-Romagna awarded at the International Tour Film Festival

The video-series made #inEmiliaRomagna dedicated to the people who make our region special, won the prize in the “tourism” category at the 10th International Tour Film Festival - International Competition open to short, medium and feature films.

Emilia Romagna has won because it has decided to promote regional tourism through its truest faces and its most beautiful and authentic crafts, linked to tradition, ancient gestures and knowledge handed down through the generations.

Passionate people, close ties with the territory and identity and a respectful look at the past: the elements that have always made Emilia Romagna great even in the tourist hospitality sector.

"For humanity, right from the title, the footage emanates among the beauties of the Emilia-Romagna region, while maintaining the promotion its intent: that of tourism" the realization of recognition for the project.

New website for Visit Emilia

A new site for the 3 provinces, Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia that makes up the Emilia Tourist Destination.

Reorganized contents (locations, interests, travel ideas, events and news), to tell the territory in an innovative way, give ideas on what to visit, but also highlight the experiences and stay proposals of the operators of the Food & Wine Networks, Spas & Outdoor, Culture & Castles, the three main thematic areas of the site.

There is also a section to help you on your journey.

A website that is also a visual journey, thanks to the beautiful photos that invite you to browse and leave, and which is directly connected to social networks, in particular to Instagram, to grasp new inspirations.

Emilia as a unique destination, where the fusion of different experiences creates the unexpected, the extraordinary, in the name of the slow mix, a tourist offer characterized by the peculiarities of the provinces of Parma, Piacenza and Reggio Emilia, which merge into more types of holidays.

The Slow mix of Emilia is in the Italian slow mix, in the different and particular possibilities of unique sales.

Start enjoying what Emilia has in store for you at www.visitemilia.com.

The land of the Slow mix awaits you to surprise you in person ;-)