Hotel Gloria Bologna

Via Emilia 46, Dozza Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40060, Italy

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Day 16

A travel blog entry by twowombats

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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

A travel blog entry by pink-obsessed

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Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history, art, cuisine, music and culture.
It is the seventh largest city in terms of population in Italy and it is the heart of a metropolitan area (officially recognized by the Italian government ...

Marroni in Monterenzio

A travel blog entry by rootsandroutes

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... made inroads into developing collective, public food politics. The Slow Food movement – initiated in Italy to promote the benefits of locally-sourced, healthy and sustainable food production and consumption – has created a significant quasi-political force in Italy and elsewhere around the politics of food. Using leftish rhetoric and iconography, Slow Food undertakes diverse forms of direct action, lobbying and awareness-raising.

At a Slow ...

Bologna (Rosso?)

A travel blog entry by rootsandroutes

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... previous sentence, and clarifies: “It’s a shame, really.”

In our travels so far, Flora is a life-line to family and British culture. Although we have barely travelled a few hundred miles so far, Italy feels quite alien in a number of ways – especially the little everyday things we take for granted such as the correct way to wash up or the order in which to eat different foods. Despite this, the transitions that she is connected to are ...

Bologna update

A travel blog entry by culpers

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... the Maserati museum, never mind eh, maybe next time. We headed straight for Bologna instead.

After checking in at the hotel and a couple of extortinately priced Moretti we took a taxi into Bologna and met up with Kris and Dan. Spent the evening in Bologna, eating, drinking and watching the world go by.

Sorry, no pictures of Bologna but it is a beautiful city, well worth another visit.


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