Bologna - arcades - i.k. photo
1. Enjoy the shade under the arcades on hot summer days
i. k. photo
2. The great many red brick buildings exude a warm atmosphere
3. The youthfulness and laxity due to its university city character
4. Look out from the top of the Torre degli Assinelli
5. The flea market on Sunday morning, in front of the church of San Stefano
6. Gothic chapels of the Church of Santo Domenico
7. Public transport is well-organized and on schedule
8. Piazza Maggiore with the great San Petronio church (Gothic!)
9. The almost all-wood Archiginnasio
10. Bologna is cleaner than the average of Italian cities
1. The pushy, stolid African street vendors with their monotonic goods
2. The staircase of the Torre degli Assinelli is narrow and dark, which makes it a bit depressing to go up and down.
3. At noon face churches with closed gates
4. It’s easy to gain weight with all those greasy (albeit yummy) mortadellas
5. The people of Bologna are very proud of their beef soup called passateli in brodo di carne, but I was not delighted with it
6. Few green areas, so dogs dont pee on grass, but on stone pillars. When the sun shines on these pillars, we smelled urine.
7. The bread selection is surprisingly poor
8. The people of Bologna speak very loudly
9. Lacks the same number of vantage points with a sweeping view that you get in Florence, Rome or Venice
10. To shamefully realize that there is no such thing as spaghetti bolognese, but there is fettuccine alla Bolognese
