If you are planning to visit Bologna, in Emilia Romagna region - Italy, here you’ll find the best tips on things to do in the city, looking at the most relevant points of interest to enjoy, so you can easily imagine and organize your trip: WHAT to see, HOW to plan your visit, and WHY to discover Bologna!
In this video I’ll show you the major attractions that you can't go home without having seen,including: the Two Towers (Asinelli and Garisenda), Piazza Maggiore, Neptune Fountain, the Basilica of Saint Petronio, Saint Stefano Square, Porticoes and canals, the Sanctuary of Saint Luca, and places where Eat and Drink.
FOOD TIPS:
- Trattoria Nonna Rosa: +39 051 6153921
- Il Posto: info@ilposto.bo.it
- Trattoria Battibecco: info@battibecco.com
- Trattoria da Me: +39 051 555486
- Al Cambio: info@ristorantealcambio.it
- La Bottega di Franco: prenotazioni@labottegadifranco.com
- Trattoria Serghei: trattoriaserghei@gmail.com
- Trattoria Bertozzi: trattoriabertozzi@libero.it
CURIOSITIES ON BOLOGNA:
If the Torre degli Asinelli is the highest leaning medieval tower in the world, the leanest tower is its neighbor, the Garisenda tower, leaning 4 degrees against the 3.97 degrees of the Tower of Pisa.
Some of the most illustrious intellectuals of the past studied in Bologna, including: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Tommaso Becket, Paracelsus, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Niccolò Copernico and, in the musical field, Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner and Puccini.
Did you know who chose the colors of the Italian flag? Luigi Zamboni, an Italian patriot, who said: "We join the white and red, the colors of our Bologna, with green, as a sign of the hope that all the Italian people will follow the national revolution we started.".
Another travel tip if you are passionate about painting: visit the Basilica of San Martino, which over the centuries has been decorated by the greatest artists, who have made it a sort of art gallery.
The frieze "L’incanto di Medea", a work by the Carracci at Palazzo Fava, is considered the first modern nude in the history of art.
It takes as many as 23 people to ring, in the “Bolognese style”, the bell mounted on top of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Pietro. In the “Bolognese style” means in a cadenced way and with a complete rotation of the bell. The bell weighs 65 quintals!
Bologna was the only European city to absolve the Knights Templar, who were tortured and tried in all other major European cities.
The Italian Academy of Cuisine, together with the Tortellino Confraternity, has deposited the official size of tagliatelle in the medieval Palazzo della Mercanzia, which contains a golden sample of the tagliatelle, where the engraved inscription reads: "8 millimetres, size of the tagliatelle, 1972”. 8 millimeters corresponds to 12,270 parts of the height of the Asinelli Tower.
The Basilica of San Domenico, which was the court of the Inquisition, houses the tomb of Rolandino de' Passaggeri, a famous glossator. The glossators were jurists who, to make the ancient texts of Roman law clearer, added notes in the margins, called "glossas". They were so respected in the city that their tombs, a unique case in Italy, were placed outdoors, in areas where they could be seen by everyone. Other examples can be found in Piazza Malpighi (Accursio, Odofredo and Rolandino de' Romanzi).
On the porticoes of Bologna: the porticoes in the thirteenth century were made of wood, and today it is still possible to observe them in their original guise in Casa Isolani in Strada Maggiore, Casa Grassi in via Marsala, Casa Azzoguidi in via San Nicolò and Casa Ramponesi in Via del Carro. The primacy of the largest portico goes to the fourteenth-century one of Santa Maria dei Servi in Strada Maggiore; the primacy of tallest is that of the Archdiocese building, in Via Altabella, with its almost 10 meters in height; the lowest is that of via Begatto, although each portico had to have the minimum height of a man on horseback. The longest arcades in the world are those of San Luca.
On the gates of Bologna:
- Porta San Vitale is known as the "Porta per Ravenna", because a fundamental axis of the road to the ancient imperial capital started from here; it should be remembered that for centuries Bologna was part of the ecclesiastical province of the archdiocese of Ravenna.
- Porta Galliera could be called "Porta della Rocca Ostile", due to its proximity to the Rocca di Galliera built several times and repeatedly demolished.
- Porta Lame is the "Porta delle Acque", due to the presence of marshes and the port. In 1334 it was equipped with 2 drawbridges.
- Porta Saragozza could be called "Sacred door" or "Pilgrims' door" as it leads to the portico of San Luca".
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