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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Bologna’s medieval walls no longer exist in any continuous form — most were demolished in the 19th and early 20th centuries to make way for the viali, the ring roads that follow their line. What survives are the gates: twelve of them, built as part of the outermost and final circuit of walls constructed between
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The Pavaglione runs for about 140 metres along the eastern edge of Piazza Maggiore, under the Renaissance arcades of Palazzo dei Banchi, before opening onto Piazza Galvani and the Archiginnasio. It is one of the most-walked stretches in Bologna — a natural corridor between the main square and the university quarter, the portico lined with
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