Sofitel Bologna
Viale Pietramellara 59 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40121, Italy
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Bloody RyanAir
I didn't sleep well during the night. I'm not sure if it was due to jet-lag or being worried about missing my early morning alarm (or maybe both). I got out of bed at 4am to get myself ready and out to catch the bus to the Girona airport (a little north of Barcelona). It was dark when we left and the driver was driving crazy. The sun started to …
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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
... metropolitan city) of about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The urban sprawl of Bologna, including nearby Modena, whose metropolises are adjoining, is continuously expanding.
The city, the first settlements of which date back to at least one millennium before Christ, has always been an important urban center, first under the Etruscans (Velzna/Felsina) and the Celts (Bona), then under the Romans (Bononia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality (for one century it was ...
Marroni in Monterenzio
... with whom we are working have come here.
Eszter and Fabrizio first moved here nine years ago, followed by Corrado and Francesca six years later. Their main income stems from the annual chestnut harvest in October, but it has been late this year due to an abnormally dry summer – even by Italian standards. We don’t gather any chestnuts during our stay, but there is much clearing to be done. Aside from the chestnuts, most of their produce is ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... are left with traces of the city’s impressive track record.Beyond these official commemorations, however, there is a powerful sense that Bologna has undergone a transformation to a high-tech industrial centre which has changed the economy and culture of the place. Transnational companies have set up here to form vast clusters of industrial plants and offices on the city’s periphery, bringing new money and new social and cultural dynamics.
Even ...



