Ripagrande Hotel Ferrara
Via Ripagrande 21 Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, 44100, Italy
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Day 16
... onto the little church and it is beautiful. The Marian devotion is amazing - they have at least 5 masses daily and from what we saw, there were about 40 people - old young, men, women - on a Monday morning at 10. There is a lovely statue of our Lady behind the altar with a little walkway so that you can pray close to Her - there is also a very shiny disc with a raised image on it that people are constantly touching as they make their requests of our Lady - if ...
Bologna, Italy
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 ...
#Occupy My Sandwich
... the prices online while I was standing their accessing my phone. Once I realized this, I just walked out, I don't deal with jackasses.
The place down the street was called something like Hope Hotel. It was run by a strange looking fellow who kind of reminded me of Andy Kaufman. It looked like he did all of his own construction work and the place was really nice. It was one of those few times where I could tell that ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... dialect, which was until recently very strong among the city’s inhabitants, is in decline, as the global connections that have been forged demand a greater standardisation of language. Flora, Helen’s second cousin, who works at one of the industrial complexes, gestures towards an Italian-Bolognese dictionary. “I have this, but I don’t use it very often. It’s really only the older generations who still speak Bolognese.” She reflects ...
Pumkins Everywhere
... I am encouraged that I will soon be arriving with family. I can put my travel miles card away, put my feet up and have a proper vacation. Because as I've been saying to some people. This is not a vacation, it's Hard Work!
I arrived in Ferrara at 5:30ish on Monday evening, It was already starting to darken, the skies saying goodnight for a while. I found my hostel with only asking one person ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Hotel Ripagrande



