The Emilio Romagna region supplies a good portion of Italy’s food. You can drive for miles through farmland dotted with small towns and churches.

The courtyard of our hotel was home to seven peacocks. They are beautiful birds, but really LOUD.

It’s all about the culatello here, even the children’s play things have a pig theme.

Parma is the largest city in the area. It is a big university town. At one point in time the city apparently looked more like New York City with all of the towers, but these are pretty much the only two remaining.