Centrale Bologna
Via della Zecca, 2 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40121, Italy
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Day 16
... also helps with contacting Aus. Great! We see Neptune, various palazzi and piazze, as well as a number of towers, all at night. Dinner is local at Luisa's trattoria where we have tagliatelle alla bolognese (authentic, approved recipe, pasta was home-made and by hand, deeelish) - not much tomato flavour at all - very yummy. Peter followed this with roasted guinea fowl, which smelled and tasted wonderful. Wifi is free but thick concrete walls don't make connection ...
Bologna, Italy
... largest European city based on population). Home to the oldest university in the world, University of Bologna, founded in 1088, Bologna hosts thousands of students who enrich the social and cultural life of the city. Famous for its towers and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved historical centre (one of the largest in Italy) thanks to a careful restoration and conservation policy which began at the end of the 1970s, on the heels of serious damage done by the ...
#Occupy My Sandwich
... visit of the city's archaeological museum. It had a few interesting pieces, but mostly we were interested in staying out of the brisk weather. Conveniently, the museum closed just as the cathedral opened, so we took a quick look there. Inside is a fresco with the Muslim prophet Muhammad shown being tortured by demons. There have apparently been terrorist plots and threats due to this fresco. Photography not allowed.
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Marroni in Monterenzio
... eat-in’ in the nearby town of Faenza, Eszter has been invited to talk about the
principles and practice of WWOOF. She is visibly nervous as she stands and takes the megaphone, but (although we have absolutely no idea what she is saying) her speech captures the members of the audience that can hear her over the hum and rumble of the night-time cityscape, and her parting words are greeted with heartfelt applause.
Why is food so important to ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... names give clues to its past: Via Antonio Gramsci, Via Marx, Via Rosa Luxemburg. A vast collage of photographs off the main square commemorates the 2,000 anti-fascist partisans who perished in the struggle to liberate the city, many of whom were various shades of anarchists and anti-Soviet communists. An unassuming plaque elsewhere commemorates the Bolognese who slipped out of Mussolini’s Italy to fight Franco’s forces in Spain. Public spaces, if one looks ...



