Alloro Suite Hotel Bologna
Via Ferrarese 161 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40128, Italy
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Day 16
This is the Vicenza - Bologna day. Out the door by 9.30, with car packed and ready to go. We decided to go back to Monte Berico, which is actually on the top of the hill behind bob & jenny's - a long walk, so we drive. On Monte Berico, there was an old Roman church, and as the story goes - the Virgin Mary appeared here twice to save the citizens of Vicenza from the plague - she asked a woman, Vicenzina Pasini, to build a bigger church - and so they tacked the ...
Bologna, Italy
... at the end of the 19th century as well as that caused by wars.
An important cultural and artistic center, its importance in terms of landmarks can be contributed to homogenous mixture of monuments and architectural examples (medieval towers, antique buildings, churches, the layout of its historical center) as well as works of art which are the result of a first class architectural and artistic history. Bologna is also an important crossroads of the roads and trains of ...
Marroni in Monterenzio
... br> Such are the hard realities for these two young families. Several of them are well-travelled, and all are well-educated. However, now, they are linked to the land and the local. They are rooted in a particular economy that relies on endurance and slow, careful nurture. Around them is a network of individuals, couples and families in similar positions – these all have come to this remote part of Italy in their search for alternative ways of living and ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... to changes that have taken place back home, and it is possible to find parallels between these economic changes and ones in places like Leeds or London Docklands.
Our hotel is itself at the centre of an industrial area. Such is the life of a traveller, a budget hotel is sometimes cheaper than a youth hostel – the bastion of budget travel. As a relatively undeveloped industrial area, Pianoro is surrounded by grey cuboid factories and office ...
Sleepwalking through our first day
We arrived in Milan after the long overnight flight and went immediately to get cappuccinos and pastries. Yum! It began to pour right after we boarded the bus to the Milan Centrale train station, so we didn't miss much as we snoozed along the way. Once in the station, we found sandwiches (good Italian salami for Mary) and boarded the train for Bologna. En route, the weather cleared, so after our walk to the Hotel Guercino and a quick change of clothes, we decided to stroll ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Executive Hotel



