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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
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
... Later, however, we fill a Fiat car to the roof with vast green and yellow pumpkins, while one of the four children of the farm stares on in almost as much amazement as we do. Honey stocks will last through winter and beyond, and the weekly baking of bread and pizza in their traditional wood oven leaves both houses with a plentiful supply. There is no comfortable medium here – everything is in flux, nothing guaranteed.
“Oh, we only need ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
“This place is not really Red Bologna like it was,” said Fabrizio mournfully. “There are more and more fascists here now.”
Fabrizio, a born-and-bred Bolognese, had seen Bologna change dramatically over the course of his 30-something years there. The elegant, seemingly unending rows of arches lining virtually every city centre street, and the delicate baroque frontages of the city’s numerous palazzi suggest that Bologna should be ...
My Return to Bologna
... roommates' cell phones.. nothing. Justin and I tried for TWO hours to get inside- I was sure we wouldn't be getting in there and settled myself on the stairwell to try and get comfortable and sleep till someone came out. Justin on the other hand never once gave up. Right when I thought he had, he let out a sigh and ran INTO the door- breaking in successfully! The lock broke and Justin just looked at me and said, well, we are in! We were both ...


