Bertinoro
Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia
Around 1300 the noble families of Bertinoro raised a stone column hung with rings: a traveller tying a horse to one became the guest of that family. The custom lives on in September's Hospitality Festival, when visitors pick envelopes from the rings to find their hosts. The medieval town crowns Monte Cesubeo in the Romagna hills, under a rocca that once housed Frederick Barbarossa.
Highlights
- The Colonna dell'Ospitalità, with its rings, beside the Palazzo Comunale
- The rocca from around 1000, now a sacred art museum and university centre
- The Hospitality Festival on the first weekend of September
- The Palazzo Comunale built in 1306 by Pino Ordelaffi
- The pieve of San Donato at Polenta, celebrated in a poem by Carducci
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Bertinoro (IT), Bertinoro (EN)), Wikivoyage (Bertinoro). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 11,026
Things to see
Events through the year
- Hospitality FestivalA night of music and dancing, re-enactments, and Sunday's hospitality rite
- Feast of Saint Catherine
Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.
Adapted from Wikipedia (Bertinoro (EN), Bertinoro (IT)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Local food & wine
- Albana (IT)Wine
- SangioveseWine
Adapted from Wikipedia (Bertinoro). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to sleep
6 places to stay within 3 km
- Hotels 6
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Thermal baths nearby
- Thermal spa: Terme di Castrocaro - Spa Termale Magiche Acque (IT) · ~29 min by car
- Thermal spa: Terme di Cervia (IT) · ~37 min by car
- Thermal spa: Terme di Punta Marina · ~49 min by car
- Thermal spa: Terme di Riolo · ~55 min by car
- Thermal spa: Piscina Termale · ~55 min by car
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Nearby member villages
- Verucchio · 30 km
- Brisighella · 30 km
- San Leo · 33 km
- Bagnara di Romagna · 35 km
- Bagno di Romagna · 38 km