Hotel Panazza Bologna
Via Lughese Nord 269 / 319, Mordano Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40027, 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
... 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
... kilos of tomatoes this week,” is the flippant call from across
the steep field. “Just pick from a couple of the plants in the middle there.”
The notion that thirteen kilos of tomatoes can be picked from a couple of plants seems absurd, but with every branch of the vine we find several clusters of five, six, seven fruits.
All of a sudden, we hear what sounds like “Jew! Jew!” from across the field. Where have ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... with a backdrop of wooded hills on either side. The hotel is typically shabby – complete with faded floral carpets and browning net curtains – but seemingly well-used. An Eastern European tour bus arrives at the same time as us; among the throng, stern-looking 40-something women scour the lobby for their teenage offspring while they wait impatiently for the hotel’s one small lift to chug back to the ground floor.
After finally making our ...
Bologna: What? Spaghetti bolognese doesn't exist?
... I'm not a big fan of toilets on the train) and 1.50 euros on delicious gelato. I was ready for gluttony, Italian style! My friend lives about 70km from Bologna and she offered to pick me up from the train station since it was next to impossible to get to her place via public transportation. The 1 hour trip from Milan to Bologna was probably the fastest train I've ever been on. With a top speed of 300 ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Ville Panazza



