Emilia-Romagna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. Until the early nineteenth century, when a large-scale urban reconstruction project was undertaken, Bologna remained one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe; to this day it ...

I have decided to take a break from the rat race in London for a short period of time and go experience the language, weather, food, wine, traditions and culture of Italy. The primary objective is to improve my Italian language skills by checking in to ...

Welcome to this blog about my year in Italy. I will post all the news from Bologna and elsewhere in the world in this place...so stay up to date!

... 150,000 people with a recorded history of more than 2200 years.  Situated in the Po River Valley in the Emilia Romagna region, a bountiful and beautiful geography is dotted with villages every few kilometers in all directions and cities like Parma, ...

Over the centuries, Bologna has acquired many nicknames: "the learned one" (la dotta) is a reference to its famous university; "the fat one" (la grassa) refers to its cuisine. The red one" (la rossa) originally refers to the colour of the roofs in the ...