Touring Bologna
Via de' Mattuiani 1/2, Piazza Tribunale Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40124, Italy
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Day 16
... also helps with contacting Aus. Great! We see Neptune, various palazzi and piazze, as well as a number of towers, all at night. Dinner is local at Luisa's trattoria where we have tagliatelle alla bolognese (authentic, approved recipe, pasta was home-made and by hand, deeelish) - not much tomato flavour at all - very yummy. Peter followed this with roasted guinea fowl, which smelled and tasted wonderful. Wifi is free but thick concrete walls don't make connection ...
Bologna, Italy
... capital of culture and in 2006, a UNESCO “city of music”. The city of Bologna was selected to participate in the Universal Exposition of Shanghai 2010 together with 45 other cities from around the world.
Bologna is also one of the wealthiest cities in Italy, often ranking as one of the top cities in terms of quality of life in the country: it was ranked 5th in 2006, and 12th in 2007, out of 103 Italian cities. In 2011 Bologna was ranked 1st out of 107 Italian ...
Marroni in Monterenzio
... 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?)
... it is hard to imagine them as part of the 1940s left-wing resistance. It seems on the surface that the reinvention of Bologna is complete, and the relics of past radicalisms are now simply historical documents. Leaving the Autostazione for our next farm, we pass by a distinguished old Neoclassical building marking a major intersection. On closer inspection, this building is emblazoned with an anarchist red and black flag. Perhaps this transition is not so complete after all.
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Spaghetti Bolognase!
... restaurants for our spag bol would be! We past the Torre Garisenda a 48 metre high tower with a tilt of 3.2 metres- and we thought Pisa was our next stop!!
After a great deal of searching we finally found a gypsy priced restaurant and had some lovely spaghetti bolognase with some very yummy wine! Mission accomplished!
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