The space of piazza Maggiore exerts an almost magnetic pull on visitors and locals alike so that you will inevitably start or end up here. Standing in the middle of the entirely pedestrianized piazza you feel you could be in the central courtyard of a great castle, enclosed and protected by towe .... Click Here for More Shadowy porticoed streets that conceal buzzing and experimental cafés, bars, canteens by day and fine restaurants and underground clubs by night, mostly designed to suit the student pocket. Heralded by the city's famous Due Torri (two towers) at its head, the main artery of univer .... Click Here for More Though fed by the attractive capillaries of via Santo Stefano and via Castiglione, nowhere is the beauty of this area more evident than in the triangular piazza Santo Stefano, site of the intricate complex of churches of the same name, one of the great architectural and artistic wonders of the c .... Click Here for More The southwest of the Centro Storico contrasts the elegant via d'Azeglio, catwalk and hunting ground for Bologna's dedicated followers of fashion among wallet-bruising boutiques, with the boozy uproarious osterie of the via del Pratello and via San Felice, famous for the concentration of years-ol .... Click Here for More Badly damaged both by Allied bombardments and subsequent bad taste in its reconstruction, the area to the northwest of piazza Maggiore is not instantly as attractive as the rest of the Centro Storico. With some notable exceptions this is an area of modern urban planning where wider boulevards re .... Click Here for More The other side of the railway line begins the modern face of Bologna. In 1965 a Zona Fiere (Exhibition Centre) was built to cater for the increasing number of conventions, fairs and trade shows that were being hosted by the city. If Bologna has only recently become considered a tourist destinati .... Click Here for More To the south of Bologna's old city walls the countryside begins to bulge above the plain in a series of lush, undulating hills which rise to the lower Apennines beyond. In the immediate vicinity are three hills, Guardia, Osservanza and San Michele, which effectively belong to the city and which .... Click Here for More The hills behind Bologna are speckled with villages providing glimpses of rustic Italian life. They also provide the opportunity to savour the Apennine's rich flora and fauna and to take part in recreational activities, from trekking and climbing to cycling and skiing, or simply to relax at one .... Click Here for More The attributes of Parma read like a mouthwatering shopping list from the local delicatessen: Parma ham, Parmesan cheese and the Barilla empire that makes half the pasta in Italy. Sensuous island of affluence, elegance, sophistication, fine opera and gourmet food, the people of Parma are convince .... Click Here for More Situated 41 km northwest along the via Emilia, Modena has always been Bologna's closest and fiercest rival. It all apparently started with a stolen wooden bucket. The Modenese were Ghibelline supporters of the Emperor Frederick II and were furious when their Guelf neighbours kidnapped his son, r .... Click Here for More Ferrara owes its Imperial aspect to the powerful Este dynasty who made the city their stronghold from the 13th to 16th centuries, elevating it from inauspicious beginnings in the middle of a fly-ridden Po delta swamp, and keeping the major artists of the day, such as Pisanello, Mantegna and Jaco .... Click Here for More Imola has a Roman forum, many beautiful churches and a couple of museums, but you could be forgiven for making the only object of your visit here a trip to the world-famous Autodromo Dino Ferrari. Built in 1950 on the site of a Roman amphitheatre that would have witnessed many chariot races, the .... Click Here for More Ravenna was coveted by invading forces, so much so that the Byzantines, arriving after the Goths, gave it what are generally considered to be the finest examples of their art existing anywhere in the world, still remarkably intact despite bombs and 20th-century industrial ravishment. Modern Rave .... Click Here for More Nowadays the Italian equivalent of Ibiza, it is hard to believe Rimini was once an important Adriatic port. Rimini's hidden depths imclude Roman ruins and the fact that it was the birthplace and psychological inspiration of the film director Federico Fellini, whose film Amarcord records his chil .... Click Here for More
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