Annual · Romagna cuisine tradition
For the cooking schools and osterie preparing the Romagna dishes at the centre of the festival menus (piadina, tagliatelle al ragù, passatelli in brodo, strozzapreti, castagnoli, ciambella romagnola, sangiovese wines), the folk groups parading in the historic centres of Forlì-Cesena, Rimini and Ravenna, the marching bands accompanying the allegorical floats, the sponsor brands of the cuisine festivals (banks, insurance, beverages, confectionery, kitchenware, agricultural consortia), the pro loco and the municipal committees running the closing evenings, the workshops stocking piadina, squacquerone and other typical Romagna products for the festival windows, the local catering schools entering the cook-off and the local press documenting the event — coordinated costumes for the folk groups, uniforms for the bands, gift kits for the sponsors setting up their hospitality, shopper and gadget for the festival audience, limited editions for the cookbook collections and packaged piadina, welcome packs for the delegations of twin cuisine festivals arriving from other Italian and foreign regions — delivered in time for the opening of the closing evenings of the Romagna cuisine festival.
The Romagna cuisine festivals — the calendar of sagre, food fairs, wine weeks and cooking competitions that punctuate the year in the provinces of Forlì-Cesena, Rimini and Ravenna — are the moment when the pro loco, the cooking schools and the municipal committees close their annual programme with the final cook-off, the parade of the allegorical floats dedicated to the typical dishes, the handing-over of the keys of the city to Pellegrino Artusi (the father of Italian cuisine, born in Forlimpopoli in 1820) according to tradition, the lighting of the closing stoves, the distribution of piadina, tagliatelle al ragù, passatelli, sangiovese and other typical Romagna products in the piazzas, and the great closing parade bringing together the folk groups of the region. In Romagna the cuisine festival tradition is rooted in every district: the Festa Artusiana in Forlimpopoli celebrates the author of “La Scienza in Cucina e l’Arte di Mangiar Bene”; the piadina sagre of Rimini and Riccione honour the bread of Romagna; the wine weeks of Faenza, Brisighella and Modigliana celebrate the Sangiovese di Romagna; the cooking competitions of Cesenatico and Cervia reward the seafood of the Adriatic.
For the pro loco, cooking schools and the municipal committees of the Romagna cuisine festivals, Corp-Merch.IT runs the full chain from its operational hub for the folk groups, the marching bands, the cooking schools, the sponsor brands of the parades and the pro loco kitchens: intake of the folk group's, sponsor brand's or cooking school's master artwork (AI, EPS, PDF/X-4 with CMYK images at 300 dpi, FOGRA39 colour profile for print, Pantone for textiles), adaptation to the different customisation techniques (water-based screen-printing on GOTS-certified organic cotton for band uniforms and cuisine kits, sublimation printing on synthetic fabrics for parade scenography, computer embroidery on felt and velvet for coordinated costumes of folk groups, hot-foil printing on cassettes for evening programmes and festival booklets, laser engraving on the finest woods for festival trophies, screen-printing on Faenza ceramics for committee limited editions, artisan work on Murano glass for the collectible collections of cookware), physical pre-production sample with Pantone colour map and technical sheet, production on Italian supply chains (Como textile, Scandicci leather, Maniago steel, Faenza ceramics, Murano glass, Fabriano paper, Collodi wood) and delivery to the festival venue, the folk group's atelier, the cooking school or the sponsor brand's consolidation warehouse on slots confirmed by the local organisation.
The full folk group (twenty to one hundred participants depending on the festival) needs coordinated costumes: sweatshirt in GOTS-certified organic cotton or wool blend with computer-embroidered group symbol, polo for rehearsal days, the coordinated shopper for personal effects during the parade, silk or cotton scarf or bandana with the festival graphic. The cooking school needs materials for its craft work (aprons, recipe folders, packaging for finished cookbook collections) and numbered limited editions for collectors. The marching band needs coordinated uniforms: jacket, shirt, tie or bow tie, leather shopper for scores and instruments. The sponsor brand setting up a hospitality area along the parade wants gift kits for invited guests (coordinated gadgets, limited editions, branded shoppers). The festival audience looks for festival gadgets and souvenirs (pins, shoppers, sweatshirts, bandanas, caps, small coordinated objects). The delegation of the twin cuisine festival arriving from another Italian or foreign region (historical twinnings between Romagna cuisine festivals and Tuscan, Emilian, Venetian and Provençal events) wants welcome packs delivered on arrival.
Most folk groups, sponsor brands and pro loco running a merch programme around the Romagna cuisine festival coordinate their operations from their town base, but launching a coordinated uniform collection, a coordinated shopper line or a limited-edition cookbook collection requires a district supply chain that our hub can orchestrate on Italian territory. Como for silk and silk textiles, Scandicci for leather and small leather goods, Maniago for steel and metal hardware, Murano for artistic glass, Faenza for ceramics, Padua for technical paperboard, Fabriano for the paper of the evening programmes, Collodi for wooden objects and small engravings: the hub lets us consolidate the commissioner's artwork files, run a physical pre-production sample through Italian supply chains and ship the batch to the festival venue, the folk group's atelier or the sponsor brand's consolidation warehouse on a tight 24-to-48-hour courier window from the national territory. For programmes involving a delegation from a twinned foreign cuisine festival (historical twinnings between Romagna cuisine festivals and Tuscan, Emilian, Venetian and Provençal events) we handle bilingual materials (Italian and English as a minimum) and, on request, full multilingual releases with translations aligned to ISO 17100.
The Romagna cuisine festival window is concentrated and must be planned against a calendar that includes set-up days of the cook-off, the Saturday and Sunday general rehearsals, the weekend parades, the closing cook-off, the handing-over of the keys to Pellegrino Artusi, the lighting of the closing stoves and the closing evening with the distribution of piadina and sangiovese in the piazzas. For folk groups and sponsor brands the gap between confirmation of the festival graphic and the opening of the closing cook-off is normally less than ten weeks, and any object that has to be at the folk group's meeting point, the cooking school or the pro loco warehouse for the first evening must be closed and shipped at least one week before the closing evening. We work backwards from that moment: production must close two-to-three weeks before the evening; the courier slot must be booked for the Friday or Saturday of festival week; the addressee list must be finalised at the same time as the cook-off calendar is confirmed; the specific details of the Romagna cuisine festival evening (year, edition number, claim) only add a small reprint to an already-produced neutral graphic base.
For Italian clients with VAT registration the invoice is issued through the Agenzia delle Entrate's Sistema di Interscambio (SdI) with the application of the 22% VAT rate in EUR; reduced rates of 4%, 5% or 10% are available on the product categories that provide for them (publishing, works of art, typical Romagna products, limited editions of authored cookbook collections). Reverse charge for intra-EU buyers registered in VIES, split payment for public administration entities, recipient code or PEC for the electronic delivery of the invoice. For clients subject to CSRD reporting (D.Lgs. 125/2024 transposing Directive (EU) 2022/2464) we attach a per-order sustainability sheet with Scope 3 CO₂e estimate per the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain on the internal legs and from the indicated production supply chains.
Sweatshirt in GOTS-certified organic cotton or wool blend with computer-embroidered group symbol, polo for rehearsal days, coordinated shopper in durable fabric, silk or cotton scarf or bandana with the festival graphic, metallic badge for marching band uniforms.
Romagna cookbooks in hand-bound Fabriano paper or printed leather, numbered and certified cookbook collections, limited packaging for piadina, squacquerone, passatelli and other typical products, technical paperboard coffer boxes for collectors and Romagna confectionery tradition brands.
Coordinated gadgets (Faenza ceramics mugs, GOTS organic cotton shoppers, small Scandicci leather goods, Maniago steel accessories), numbered limited editions for sponsor top customers, packaging coordinated with the brand's institutional colours, welcome kits for the guests of hospitality areas set up along the parade.
Welcome packs for delegations of Italian and foreign twinned cuisine festivals (historical twinnings between Romagna events and Tuscan, Emilian, Venetian and Provençal events): coordinated shopper, regional gadget, small Faenza ceramic object, bilingual agenda, traditional cookbook kit, limited edition of the typical Romagna sweet.
Before kicking off production, artwork, quantities per recipient, packaging and named receiving point must be locked. The final delivery address is fixed against the festival calendar issued by the municipal administration of the town and the pro loco in charge of the cook-off: the historic centre of the town has regulated loading lanes; the folk group's atelier has its own delivery times that must be coordinated with the contacts; the pro loco warehouse has loading windows coordinated with the contacts of each town; the sponsor brand's consolidation warehouse is often located away from the historic centre and must be reached with adequate couriers. The ZTL areas of Romagna historic centres (Forlimpopoli, Cesena, Forlì, Rimini, Ravenna, Cervia, Faenza, Brisighella, Santarcangelo di Romagna) condition the access of couriers, and most teams opt for early-morning or post-19:30 deliveries, when heavy vehicles are again admitted to the ZTL areas of the historic centre.
For an Italian programme routed via the national hub, deliveries are consolidated at the hub and shipped to the Romagna cuisine festival town, the folk group's atelier or the pro loco warehouse with 24-to-48-hour windows via BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express Italy, on appointment for venues requiring phone pre-notice. For programmes above 1,000 pieces we propose appointment delivery with phone pre-notice and, on request, on-site installation by our staff at the folk group's atelier or the pro loco warehouse. For materials requiring controlled environmental conditions (silk, leather, ceramics, glass, wood) we coordinate climate-controlled transport with specialised partners. For welcome kits bound for twinned cuisine festival delegations we handle multilingual labelling (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish) and tamper-evident pouch packaging with bilingual packing lists addressed to the recipient.
Eight to ten weeks is the safest window for GOTS-certified organic cotton coordinated uniforms, parade audience shoppers, sponsor gift kits for the Romagna cuisine festival and welcome packs for twinned cuisine festival delegations. Tighter programmes are only possible after confirming stock, print methods and access to the historic centre of the town.
Only after the pro loco or the folk group's atelier has confirmed the loading window, the lane access and the named recipient. For limited editions of cookbooks and coordinated uniforms specific packaging conditions must be agreed.
Yes. Coordinated uniforms for folk groups, cookbook limited editions for collectors, sponsor gift kits and welcome packs for twinned cuisine festival delegations can be packed and labelled as separate batches, each tied to its own audience and each delivery point.
No. Corp-Merch.IT is an external, independent B2B supplier that helps folk groups, marching bands, cooking schools, sponsor brands, pro loco, municipal committees and twinned cuisine festival delegations prepare their merch for the Romagna cuisine festivals. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the municipal administrations of the Romagna towns or the individual pro loco.
Corp-Merch.IT is an external, independent B2B supplier for the folk groups, marching bands, cooking schools, sponsor brands and pro loco of Romagna towns. This page helps teams prepare their merch for the closing evening of the Romagna cuisine festival; it does not represent municipal administrations, pro loco, cooking schools or any sponsor of the Romagna cuisine festival.