Check-in Mon Jul 27 — arranged ~2:00 PM with the host (official window 3:00–6:00 PM) · Check-out Wed Jul 29 (8:00–10:00 AM)
Two-Bedroom Apartment (private bathroom, terrace, kitchen) · 2 adults + 2 kids (13, 15) · 2 nights
Host: +39 347 768 6561 · Confirmation 6913.995.215 · PIN 9621
🔑 Check-in: plan is to arrive ~1 PM, have lunch first, then check in around 2 PM. Message Irma (+39 347 768 6561) when you finish lunch — she is 5 minutes away and comes to the apartment to hand over the keys. She may message if it’s ready by 1 PM.
🅿️ No parking at the apartment. Plan a nearby public car park — easiest is by the train station (Stazione di Crema, ~400 m up Via Stazione), or street parking outside the centre. Don’t drive into the historic-centre ZTL (camera-enforced traffic zone — automatic fines).
- Bring €12 cash for the tourist tax (tassa di soggiorno) — the 13-year-old is exempt (under 14 doesn’t pay)
- Confirmation 6913.995.215 · PIN 9621
- Total €250.20 (incl. €36 cleaning); card charged €227.46 after Booking discounts — nothing due at the apartment
- Non-refundable rate (free-cancellation window ended Jul 12); WiFi free in the rooms
🎬 Call Me By Your Name — Day 1: Elio & Oliver’s Crema. This is Phima’s day. The 2017 film was shot around Crema in the summer of 2016, and the old town looks virtually unchanged — almost every street here appears on screen. After lunch and check-in, walk into the historic centre.
| Time | What |
|---|---|
| ~10:00 | Leave Ravenna (~3 h drive; Irma is expecting you Monday) |
| ~13:00 | Arrive Crema — lunch first at Al Dòmm (the host’s tip: authentic tortelli cremaschi), by the Duomo |
| ~14:00 | Check in — message Irma when you finish lunch; she’s 5 min away |
| 15:00 | Piazza del Duomo — the heart of the film: café terrace, war memorial, bicycle scenes, where Marzia & Elio meet |
| 16:00 | Cathedral arch + historic streets: Via XX Settembre · Via Cavour · Via Marazzi · Piazza Premoli |
| 17:30 | Porta Serio — the old town gate from the cycling scenes |
| Evening | Gelato, then back to Piazza del Duomo for sunset, photos & dinner |
🏛 History: the first cathedral here was razed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa after the brutal seven-month Siege of Crema (1159–60), when the whole town was destroyed. The Duomo you see was rebuilt 1284–1340 in Lombard Gothic — brick, rose window, soaring bell tower.
🏛 History: built in 1525, a gift to the city from Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan. Walk through it — it links the piazza to the old market square behind.
🏛 History: one of Crema’s two surviving town gates, on the east road toward the Serio river. Crema spent 350 years (1449–1797) as the westernmost outpost of the Republic of Venice — a fortified island of Venetian territory inside Milanese Lombardy, which is why the old town feels subtly different from its neighbours.
🍬 About those tortelli cremaschi: Crema’s signature pasta is stuffed with amaretti, candied citron, raisins and spices — a sweet-savoury combination that is a direct legacy of the Venetian spice trade that ran through the town for centuries. Nobody else in Italy makes them like this.
📸 As it happened: the evening walk delivered — window-peeking through the closed shutters, the piazza by Porta Serio at golden hour, and the view through the arches off Piazza del Duomo at dusk.
