BOLOGNA CITY BREAKS   >   EMILIA ROMAGNA


Capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines


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Camping and Caravanning

  Eurocampings   -   ACSI Camping Guide Emilia-Romagna

  Camping.it   -   Camp site Bologna 

Car Rental Bologna 

  Holiday Autos  -    
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

  Sixt   -    

Holiday Homes Bologna

  Interhome    -   Holiday homes Bologna
Interhome offers quality apartments or houses. All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.

Hotels in Bologna

  Booking  -  Hotels in Bologna   -   Hotel Guide Bologna
Hotels in Borgo Panigale, Navile, Porto, Quartiere San Donato, Reno, San Vitale, Santo Stefano, Saragozza [ Bologna Districts ], and more ...

 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

  

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

  Kuoni Travel    -   Bologna
Bologna grew up at the junction of the Via Aemila and the main road over the Apennines from Florence. Modern Bologna has a splendid medieval heritage, with its collection of charming porticoed streets, palaces clustered around the two central squares, the famous Torri degli Asinelli e Garisenda, the leaning towers mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy. Last but not least a culinary Mecca.

 
Create your perfect trip to Bologna   -   Flight, Hotel and Car

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Travel Guides Bologna / Related books

Bologna (Footprint Pocket Handbooks S.)  -   by Ben Donald
Popular mini guide to help you get the best out of Bologna. Covering the city itself, it looks outside the city to the popular excursions: the Appenine villages, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Imola, Ravenna and Rimini. With streets like embroidered cloth, threaded with the arches of continuous colonnades, the heart of Bolgona is a giant cloister. The city is littered with breathtaking monuments and masterpieces all of which are readily accessible. If this were not mouth-watering enough Bologna is the food capital of Italy and renowed for its fast cars.
Paperback 256 pages (April 29, 2005); Publisher: Footprint Handbooks

Transport / How do I travel to Bologna

  Bologna Airport   -   G. Marconi [ Guglielmo Marconi International Airport ]

  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights   -   Flights to Bologna

  Bologna Central Station   -   most important train hub in Italy

  Public transport Bologna [ ATC ]


Links

  Bologna City   -   City Council Bologna

  Province of Bologna   -   Province of Bologna 

  Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna
  Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio
  Arca di San Domenico
  Basilica of San Petronio   -   one of the biggest in the world
During construction it was intended to be larger than St. Peter's in Rome, but Pope Pius IV ordered that the arms of the church be truncated, leaving it without transepts. See Wiikipedia 
  Beata Vergine di San Luca basilica and sanctuary, on Colle della Guardia
  Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna [ Bologna Museum of Modern Art ]
With its permanent collection the museum traces the history of Italian art from World War II to the present day, as seen through the experience of the former Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. MAMbo supports the most innovative artistic practices and helps outline the routes of contemporary art, through an exhibition program focused on research and experimentation. See MAMbo
  Botanic garden   -   Orto Botanico dell'Università di Bologna
The university's botanical garden was established in 1568 and is the fourth-oldest in Europe.
  Ducati Motor Holding   -   motorcycles
  Fountain of Neptune, Bologna
  International museum and library of music
  Lamborghini   -   cars
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini, is an Italian manufacturer of high performance sports cars (supercar) based in the small Italian village of Sant'Agata Bolognese, near Bologna. See Wikipedia.
  Land Rover Arena   -   an indoor sporting arena located
See BolognaBasket.it [ Il portale del basket bolognese ].
  Maserati   -   cars [ now seats in Modena ]
  San Pietro Cathedral
  Santo Stefano basilica and sanctuary
  San Domenico basilica and sanctuary
  San Francesco basilica
  Santa Maria dei Servi basilica
  San Giacomo Maggiore basilica
  San Michele in Bosco
  San Paolo the Great, basilica
  Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca
  Towers of Bologna   -   a group of medieval structures
The two most prominent ones, also called the Two Towers, are the landmark of the city.

  University of Bologna   -   Universitá di Bologna
The University of Bologna, attracting since nine centuries students from all over the world has created a unique "crossroad" of knowledge, people, ideas, styles and flavours.
A crossroad which has given hospitality since the Middle Ages to travellers and tourists, businessmen and, today as yesterday, to pilgrims who move along ancient roads as the Romea and the Francigena in direction of Rome.

Cuisine  -  Bologna

Over the centuries, Bologna has acquired nicknames. One of them, "the fat one" (la grassa), refers to its cuisine.

Located in the fertile Po River Valley, the local cuisine depends heavily on meats and cheeses.

Bologna has given its name to the Bolognese sauce, a meat based pasta sauce called in Italy ragù alla bolognese.

  Bologna Cuisine 

History of Bologna

  Bologna's history   -   see Wikipedia
Bologna was founded by the Etruscans with the name Felsina (ca. 534 BCE) in an area previously inhabited by the Villanovians, a people of farmers and shepherds. The Etruscan city grew around a sanctuary built on a hill ...

  Balnea Museum   -   Virtual Museum of sea bathing and seaside tourism
Website dedicated to the history of seaside tourism.

Music, Arts & Culture, Events in Bologna

Bologna's large student population has largely contributed to the city's vibrant and varied nightlife.

Until the 16th century, the theatre was a very popular form of entertainment in Bologna. The first public theater was the Teatro alla Scala, active since 1547 in Palazzo del Podestà.

  Culture in Bologna

  Angelica   -   International Contemporary Music Festival
  Bolognafestival   -   International classical music festival
  Bologna Jazz Festival   -   the Italian autumn jazz event
  Biografilm Festival   -   International Film Festival devote to Biography
  BilBolBul   -   International Comic Festival
  Casadeipensieri   -   International Summer Festival of literature and poetry
  Danza Urbana   -   International Street Contemporary Dance Festival 
  F.I.S.Co   -   International Festival on Contemporary art
  Future Film Festival   -   International Festival on animation and special effects.
  Il Cinema Ritrovato   -   International Film Festival about Forgotten Films
  Gender Bender
International Festival on the gender identity, sexual orientation and body representation
  Homework festival   -   lectronic music festival
  Human Rights Film Festival
  Netmage   -   International Festival dedicated to Electronic Art


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