Bologna is a beautiful city with many well preserved buildings. Today we took the hop on, hop off bus that goes around the city pointing out important locations. Before that though, we walked through the city where there was a May Day rally happening with 100s of Unionists wearing colourful uniforms rallying to March through the city. One interesting fact we heard was that there are more public burial sites of professors in the city than anyone else. Clearly a Bologna has been a great centre for learning. It’s the home of Guglielmo Marconi, the man who discovered that radiomagnetic waves could be detected from a distance and therefore could be used for radio communication - clearly one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century.
Palazzo Communale
Palazzo Communale Inside
May Day rally Piazza Maggiore
Piazza Galvani with the back of Basilica di San Petronio
San Francesco Church
Palazzo Communale
Torre degli Asinelli
Fountain of Neptune
One of the features of Bologna is the porticos around all the buildings. These began in the 1100s when the wealthy merchants built them to Jeep the dust away from where they liked to sit in the shade. At one point the city council legislated that all new buildings should have a portico as high as a man mounted on a horse, including his hat!
Due Torre - 2 towers, both leaning, the tallest being the tallest leaning tower in the world.
Latimer band entertaining the crowd
Palazzo Fantuzzi
Piazza Maggiore
Decoration on a portico ceiling
View from San Michelle in Bosco, once a private palazzo but, now an orthopaedic treatment facility.
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