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About Bologna, Italy

Bologna is the lively, historic capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy. Its Piazza Maggiore is a sprawling plaza lined with arched colonnades, cafes and medieval and Renaissance structures such as City Hall, the Fountain of Neptune and the Basilica di San Petronio. Among the city’s many medieval towers are the Two Towers, leaning Asinelli and Garisenda.

  • Weather: 9°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 95% Humidity
  • Metropolitan city: Bologna (BO)
  • Population: 388,367 (2017) Istat
  • Province: Metropolitan City of Bologna
  • Colleges and Universities: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
  • Did you know: Bologna is the seventh-largest city in Italy by population (371,337)

Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna

The Palazzo del Podestà is a civic building in Bologna, northern Italy. The edifice was built around 1200 as the seat of the local podestà, the various functionaries of the commune. It stands on the Piazza Maggiore, ...

 

Museo Ducati, Bologna

The Ducati Museum is a transport museum in Bologna, Italy at the Ducati factory. It contains a collection of Ducati motorcycles and some early non-automotive products. It opened in 1998. The museum's collection of ...

 

The Archaeological Civic Museum (MCA) of Bologna

The Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna is located in the fifteenth-century Palazzo Galvani building at Via dell'Archiginnasio 2 postal code 40124 Bologna, once known as the Hospital of Death. Founded in September ...

 

Palazzo Re Enzo

Palazzo Re Enzo is a palace in Bologna, northern Italy. It takes its name from Enzio of Sardinia, Frederick II's son, who was prisoner here from 1249 until his death in 1272. The palace was built between 1244-1246 as an ...

 

Certosa di Bologna

The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city's Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron ...

 

Metropolitan Cathedral of San Pietro

Bologna Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, is the cathedral of Bologna in Italy, and the seat and the metropolitan cathedral of the Archbishop of Bologna. Most of the present building dates from the 17th century, with ...

 

Biblioteca Salaborsa

Salaborsa is the main public library in Bologna, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In 2001, the central offices of the public library were moved into the northern portions of the Palazzo d'Accursio, flanking the Piazza ...

 

Parco della Montagnola

The Park of Montagnola is a public park in Bologna, Italy; it owes the original construction to Napoleonic rule, who commissioned the park design from Giovanni Battista Martinetti. The base of the park contains the ...

 

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