Carpi Cathedral
[June 2025] On the final day of our short trip to Italy‘s Emilia-Romagna region, after checking out, we returned to the town of Carpi, where we’d not yet had enough time to explore the day…
Emilia Romagna
In the town of Carpi
[June 2025] About a 20-minute drive west of Correggio, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, lies the town of Carpi. On our second day, we visited the town. I first learned of the…
Unexpectedly, a festival
[May 2025] We spent two nights in the town of Correggio in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. This time, it was a short trip to celebrate my husband’s birthday. We use our anniversaries as an…
A town whose name is hard to remember
[Nov. 2024] As the weather in Northern Italy was sunny this November, we went to a town called Castell’Arquato in Emilia-Romagna this time. No matter how many times you say it, it’s hard to remember…
Visconti village
[Sept. 2022] We went on a day trip from Milan in Italy to a village called Grazzano Visonti in Emilia-Romagna. Speaking of Visconti, it is the family who had great power mainly in Milan in…
Looking back on 2020–cancelled trips, etc. (Part 1)
[Dec. 2020] One year ago, when this year began, who would have imagined that it would be such a year? We returned to London from Japan after spending the New Year holidays in January and…
Ride on the San Luca Express in Bologna
[ Oct.2019 ] In Bologna in Italy where we went to eat delicious Tagliatelle alla Bolognese, when we came into the main square, Piazza Maggiore, we noticed the Trenino (tourist bus in the shape of…
The castle in the town
[ May2016 ] In the middle of the old town of Fontanellato in Emilia Romagna, Italy, there is a castle called Rocca Sanvitale. It is a picturesque castle surrounded by …
World Heritage in Modena
[ Apr.2016 ] There is the UNESCO World Heritage site in Modena in Italy. They are the cathedral, the bell tower and the square located next to one another. This site apparently shows…
