Rimini is effectively two cities in one: a working Roman and medieval city centre with monuments that rank among the most significant in northern Italy, and a 15-km stretch of Adriatic beach that has been one of Italy’s main summer resort destinations since the 19th century. Most visitors come for the beach and discover the […]
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Art City Bologna is an annual contemporary art festival held each February in Bologna, running in parallel with Arte Fiera. Over three hundred events spread across the city’s historic buildings, civic museums, commercial galleries, and unconventional spaces — turning Bologna into a concentrated point for contemporary art for one long weekend. The fourteenth edition, Art
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The Portico di San Luca runs for 3.5 kilometres and 666 arches from the Arco del Meloncello at the edge of the city up the hill to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. It was built between 1674 and 1793 to protect the annual religious procession that carries the Madonna’s icon down to
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Ravenna is about 75 km east of Bologna — roughly an hour by direct train — and contains eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites, all within walking distance of each other in the city centre. The city was the capital of the Western Roman Empire in its final decades (402–476 AD), then the seat of the Ostrogothic Kingdom
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The south bank of the Arno — Palazzo Gambacorti stands on Piazza XX Settembre, a few minutes from Ponte di Mezzo Most visitors to Pisa spend their time north of the Arno, in and around Piazza dei Miracoli. The south bank is quieter and less visited — and it is where you find Palazzo Gambacorti,
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Palazzo Pepoli on Via Castiglione houses the Museum of the History of Bologna — 2,500 square metres of exhibition space tracing Bologna’s fascinating history from its Etruscan origins as Felsina through the Roman period, the medieval university, the Renaissance, and into the modern city. The building itself is part of the experience: a 14th-century palazzo
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