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Overview:
Bologna, Italy - Ask
most people to name the first
Italian city that comes into their
head and few will trump out
Bologna. That suits this city just
fine. While the tourist hordes
clog up Florence, Rome and Venice,
Bologna remains relatively tourist
free, letting the locals enjoy one
of the highest standards of living
in Italy unmolested. Founded by
the Etruscans as Felsina, on the
Po Plains in 600BC, the northeast
Italian city was renamed Bononia
by the Gauls, whose French
overtones still can be heard in
the local dialect. Bologna came to
worldwide attention with the
founding of the university in
1088, when two thousand students
from all over Europe poured into
the medieval commune.
The heart of Bologna is around the
twin piazzas, Maggiore and Nettuno
– a handsome public space sealed
on all sides by medieval palazzi
and the hulk of San Petronio.
Here, amid the pigeons, the
Bolognese come to shop, to pray,
to chat and, of course, to
demonstrate. Not just for the
ochre colouring of the medieval
buildings in the fading evening
light is the city known as ‘Red
Bologna’, with socialism and
communism a major feature of
Bolognese life, ever since
determined partisan resistance in
World War II.
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