Blogs from Maranello, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
May 21st 2011
FERRARI'S FERRARI'S AND MORE FERRARI'S what can I say we saw Ferrari's and more Ferrari's. We gave the kids the choice another old town with lot' of churches or Maranello were Ferrari come from. Even the girls voted for Maranello, I guess there over old churches. The museum is great made me want a Ferrari or even just to drive one for a day or two. We sat in a bar outside and you could test drive a Ferrari so we watched them fly down the road in all sort's of Ferrari's. The whole town is Ferrari mad shops cars, you name it. THe factory is so big and modern and red it was quite surprising. We even stayed in a Ferrari hotel just for somemore Ferrari Fun.... read more
May 1st 2011
Before heading off to Venice I wanted to visit the Ferrari museum so after a couple of wrong turns we found it, with easy parking by the front gate and alongside the inevitable Ferrari shops. After a stroll through the shops seeing the outrageous prices it was off to the museum for a look see. This is a great place to visit if you are a car or F1 buff but if you are not then don’t bother, I loved it, they had actual F1 race cars on show from around 2001 onwards, only the championship winners unfortunately, cant have non winners on show can we. There are samples of engines dating back to 1985 and the turbo day’s right through to the 2010 v10. Also on display were numbers of older and very rare road ... read more
Day 53: Riccione to San Marino To Maranello
Published: April 30th 2011Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Maranello
April 30th 2011
An early start today as we had some ground to cover and I wanted to stop off and see Imola race track today and Pam had promised Gerry that we would call into Forli’ on the way. Before that though it was off to another country, the 5th smallest in the world and the 2nd smallest in Europe, that is San Marino. Total population 27,000, I still don’t know how or why San Marino is separate from Italy but there you have it. San Marino is s small country located on the top of yet another hill with a large castle fortification, the day was very cloudy and the best way to get to the town is via the cable car. The best thing about San Marino it is tax free therefore a great place to ... read more
May 17th 2007
On the side of the Autostrada near Reggio Emilia, there stands an effigy of a ferrari and a sign advertising the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, the birthplace of Ferrari. It was something I had to see and how could my father possibly refuse, they have a place in his heart as well, so we set off to find it one afternoon. It was just him and I this time and we managed to get really really lost. We ended up taking backcountry roads and kept missing Maranello somehow, which means when we finally reached Maranello and saw the first prancing horse, it was already 5pm. Tensions were running high, as we were both frustrated and worried, my father about getting lost again on the way home, and myself about it being too late to go ... read more
