From the town center, with a beautiful sea view, a short and steep route descends down to the foothill fields. Here you can walk through green areas, cultivated fields and the vineyards that give birth to the well known local wines. The countryside is well ordered and well kept. Walking along these paths is a real feast for the eyes. You will also find historic villas which have nowadays become wineries where you can taste and buy the local wines.
Wineyard Route
Useful Information
Points of interest
Badia Abbey
The first mentions of the abbey - first Benedictine and then Camaldolese - are found in the "Annales Camaldulenses" before the year one thousand, where it is mentioned among the most important monasteries of the Romagna area. Today, totally renovated after the bombings of the Second World War, it hosts the convent of Franciscan missionary nuns.
Road of Wines and Flavours of the hills of Forlì and Cesena
In this corner of Romagna, Sangiovese, a symbolic wine of this land, takes on a profound and austere character. Bertinoro wineries have chosen it to represent the specific terroir of this territory.
Historic Farmhouses
It is in the various ancient farmhouses – and more precisely in their wine cellars – that the art of winemaking has passed down from generation to generation. Surrounded by wide fields and parks rich in secular trees, these magnificent villas show the ancient bond between the soil and the wine production.
Wineries
The traditions connected to Bertinoro’s wines are nowadays renewed through modern technologies by the various wineries spread around this area. Here it is possible to assist to guided tours to the vineyards, to the historic wine cellars and taste wines. The most beautiful pages of the history of Romagna wines have surely been written inside these wineries.
Pagadebit
Pagadebit (debit payer): a name, a story. This vine, which is exceptionally resistant to climatic adversities and extremely productive, is so called because it was used by the farmers to pay off their debts contracted during the winemaking year.
Bertinoro Wines and Food
A generous land, with an offer of great seasonal products, which colour the hills with the green, gold and ruby hues of nature all year round. The many vineyards are testimony of a very long wine tradition. Today the tradition is consolidated in the "Bertinoro" sub-area that, in particular, offers Sangiovese and Albana wines of excellent quality. Here you will find something to satisfy all tastes.
The Bell of Albana
Following the DOCG recognition of Albana in 1987, the bell was commissioned by the Municipality of Bertinoro and the Tribunate of Romagna wines. Once a year in Bertinoro, its tolls announces the beginning of the harvest.
Winemaker monument
This bronze monument was made by sculptor Mario Bertozzi. Every year, during the Hospitality Festival, the New Winemaker ceremony takes place at the foot of the monument, with the consignment of a certificate of honour to a winemaker who has entered or made a fresh start in the profession during the last year.
Grape harvest street
A short alley where seven paintings are on an “open air” and permanent display, portraying the key phases of the wine production, from grape plantation to its transformation into the final delicious nectar.
