There are around 62 kilometres of covered walkways in Bologna. In the historic centre alone, the figure is closer to 40. They run along almost every significant street, connecting piazzas, markets, university buildings, churches, and residential blocks without a gap. When it rains in Bologna — and it rains — the city keeps moving. You […]

Bologna is Guglielmo Marconi’s birthplace, and the city takes that seriously. Marconi was born on April 25, 1874 at Villa Griffone in Pontecchio, a village 12 km south of Bologna in the Apennine foothills, and it was there — in the attic of the same villa — that he conducted his first wireless telegraphy experiments