Bologna

Ninth stop: BOLOGNA

Hey! Do you like eating? I hope you do because today we’re traveling to Bologna –one of the most important place on the culinary map of Italy! What comes to your mind when you think of this city? Well, for sure you associate it with a popular spaghetti bolognese. And do you know that Italians don’t use this denomination at all? For them pasta with tomato sauce and minced meat is always called ‘tagliatelle al ragù’. What’s more, as you can see, they don’t prepare it with spaghetti however they use flat, long pasta ‘tagliatelle’. If you visit Bologna, you have to also taste tortellini (a kind of really small dumpling), mortadela, prosciutto (pork ham) and of course, lasagne! So after a long day of walking through the city, you’ll find many places to taste some delicious Italian dishes!

 

If it goes about monuments, as always I don’t want to bore you telling  you something about the old town and the rest of the top places to see there. I would like to share with you some curiosities of this city that not everyone knows. Bologna is famous of its towers, so it’s worth climbing the one situated in the city canter, called ‘Torre degli Asinelli’, just to see an amazing panorama. Moreover, in the city there are a lot of arcades, so you can take a moment to admire the architecture of this place. 

The other interesting fact is that Bologna offers you a chance to see the oldest University in the world that was established in the 1088! Just to finish our adventure in Bologna, I’d like to reccommend you visiting Santuario di Madonna di San Luca, situated on the hill next to the Stadium of Bologna. Of course first you need to go up the stairs but the view from the top of the hill is really nice, so it’s worth geting tired a bit just to see the city from the other perspective!