Emilia Romagna Travel tourism

Emilia-Romagna is a region of northern Italy, with capital Bologna.
It is bordered on the east by the Adriatic Sea, north to the Veneto and Lombardy, to the west with Piedmont and Liguria, south of Tuscany, the Marches and the Republic of San Marino.
It is made from two historical regions: Emilia, which includes the provinces of Piacenza, Parma, Reggio, Modena, Ferrara and much of the province of Bologna, the capital, and Romagna, with the remaining provinces of Ravenna, Rimini, Forlì - Cesena and the eastern part of the province of Bologna (Imola and surrounding areas).
The history, however, cover small areas Romagna in Le Marche and Tuscany.
The areas which constitute the region today are populated since ancient times, as we indicate several findings: The most famous is the site of Monte Poggiolo at Forli, where they were found thousands of artefacts dating to about 800,000 years ago, demonstration that the area was already inhabited in the Paleolithic.
Emilia-Romagna is a region mainly flat plains in fact occupy 47.8% of its territory. The hills, 27.1% of the territory, and the mountains, 25.1% of terriorio, are located in the south of the region.
In Emilia Romagna the economy is highly developed. Typical industries are family-run small and medium businesses and large international groups do not exist apart from food and automotive.
Cooperatives are also very common, especially in the area of Reggio Emilia and Modena. The industry is present in all three areas.
In the primary region can count on strong growth across the Po Valley and in the Romagna. Many PDO and PGI products grown in the region.
The secondary sector is undoubtedly the most developed: in areas ranging from Bologna to Reggio Emilia is a very high rate of mechanical industries, ceramics and textiles (known throughout the world, the cars produced in Modena), such as Ducati, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati.
Parma is very developed in the food industry (Parma has been chosen as the seat of European institutions in control of the sector, the EFSA). §
Ravenna in the chemical industry is highly developed and has the largest port in the Adriatic Sea.
The tertiary sector has also developed, and the Romagna coast is the center of tourist attraction and summer for the rich and the very organized accommodation (more than 5000 hotels) than in other periods of the year for many local youth activities; It is estimated that during a year are about 10 million tourists who inhabit it, Italians and many foreigners mostly from Germany and Holland.
Discreet also winter tourism in the ski resorts of the Apennines, including the internationally Sestola and other places on the slopes of Monte Cimone, and Corno alle Scale, in Bologna.
Strongly developed, sightseeing in the cities of art, especially from abroad.
Regarding the services sector, the region is the most important commercial node in the country, Bologna railway junction is of primary importance in the North, its freight station is the largest in Italy as the volume of traffic.
Emilia gathered together practically all the major highways of the country.