Square
The city's largest square, known as the Bologna Salon, is the main meeting place and the centre of the city's civic and religious life. [btn "Book your hotel now with a discount at Booking.com" https://www.booking.com/city/it/bologna.cs.html?aid=2380460&label=p-bologna-piazza-maggiore] In the centre of the square stands the grand Palazzo di Re Enzo, which houses the Bologna Welcome information and tourist centre. The square is lined with…
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Square, Fountain
Piazza Piazza Maggiore flows seamlessly into another square, Piazza del Nettuno, which is also home to one of the most beautiful fountains in Italy, the Fontana del Nettuno. [btn "Book your hotel now with a discount at Booking.com" https://www.booking.com/city/it/bologna.cs.html?aid=2380460&label=p-bologna-fontana-del-nettuno] Bologna's Neptune Fountain is one of the city's most famous symbols and appears on many promotional materials. …
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Street
Take a stroll down the rue dell'Archiginnasio, characterised by the most famous of all Bologna's famous arcades. The street runs connecting Piazza Maggiore and Piazza Galvani. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Bologna" https://www.booking.com/city/it/bologna.cs.html?aid=2380460&label=p-bologna-archiginnasio] Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio was the original seat of the university. Today it houses the Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, and inside it's worth a…
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Water Canal
Few people know that Bologna has always been a city of water. Bologna's "little Venice" Finestrella is now largely hidden away, but you can still admire some of it. For example, in Via Piella, where there is a mill canal used for centuries to feed water mills, or from the bridges in Oberdan and Malcontenti streets. [btn "Book your hotel now with a discount at Booking.com" https://www.booking.com/city/it/bologna.cs.html?aid=2380460&label=p…
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City Quarter
The Jewish Ghetto is located in the heart of the medieval city centre, between the historic centre and the university quarter, and still retains its original structure. It is a maze of alleyways and corridors, covered bridges and small windows telling the hard fate of a community that was forced to live in separation from 1556 before being expelled from the city. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Bologna" https://www.booking.com/city/it/bologna.cs…
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