Food & Drink
Tour the FICO Eataly World food park
Bologna · Emilia-Romagna
QUICK INFORMATION
- CATEGORY
- Food & Drink
- COUNTRY
- Italy
- REGION
- Bologna · Emilia-Romagna
- DURATION
- Half a day
- DIFFICULTY
- Easy — a flat, covered complex, with bicycles available to borrow.
- BEST TIME
- Year-round; closed on Mondays.
ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE
FICO Eataly World is the world’s largest food park, built on the site of the old wholesale fruit and vegetable market outside Bologna, a 100,000-square-metre complex that brings together farms, factories, markets and restaurants of Italian food under one roof. It is a place to see how Italian food is made — the cows being milked, the cheese being spun, the pasta being rolled, the hams being cured — and to eat it in the restaurants and buy it in the market. It is the most complete single place to understand the food of Emilia-Romagna and of Italy, and it is reached by a free shuttle from the centre.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
What you’ll experience
THE EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL
What it’s really like
HIGHLIGHTS
Moments worth savouring
The farms and factories — the working demonstrations of cheese-making, pasta, bread, beer and cured meats.
The market — the stalls of Italian products, from Parmesan and Parma ham to olive oil and wine.
The restaurants — the counters of regional Italian cooking, eaten at shared tables.
The fields — the open-air fields and orchards around the complex, showing the crops.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Good to know before you go
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Before you go
MAP & LOCATION
Tour the FICO Eataly World food park
Tour the FICO Eataly World food park, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
44.5236, 11.2889
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FOOD & DRINK
Where to eat nearby
Trattoria di Via Serra — a beloved trattoria for handmade pasta and Bolognese classics, book ahead
Osteria Bottega — a wine bar and trattoria for the best tortellini in brodo in the city
Trattoria Anna — a no-frills trattoria in the market quarter for tagliatelle al ragù and boiled meats
Salumeria Simoni — a salumeria in the Quadrilatero for a mortadella sandwich and a glass of Lambrusco
Drogheria della Rosa — a romantic trattoria in a vintage grocery for refined Emilian cooking
HOTELS & STAYS
Where to stay nearby
Grand Hotel Majestic gia Baglioni — a grand hotel in a 16th-century palace near the station, with a rooftop
Hotel Porta San Mamolo — a charming garden hotel just inside the old walls, a quiet base
Art Hotel Commercianti — a boutique hotel near the Piazza Maggiore, in a medieval building
Hotel Al Cappello Rosso — a historic hotel near the Piazza Maggiore, in business since 1375
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