Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, is a city rich in culture with the presence of one of the oldest universities in Italy, history and traditions.
Famous for its tasty and sublime cuisine that has conquered even the most severe.
It still retains the charm of a large city in the past, rich of many monuments and works of art. Walking through the beautiful arcades that characterize the city for 40 kilometers you will see:

• Torre degli Asinelli: one of the hallmarks of the city. The visitors, after having walked the 498 steps of the staircase inside, can get to the top of the tower, from about 97,20 meters in height, allows to see the city at your feet. On fine days, the sight can reach the sea and the foothills of the Veneto;
• Piazza Maggiore: the center of the civil and religious life of Bologna, is famous for the Fountain of Neptune, which overlooks the most important buildings of the medieval city: the fourteenth-century Palazzo Comunale, the sixteenth-century Palazzo dei Bianchi and the imposing Basilica of San Petronio in front of which lies the elegant Palazzo del Podestà. All buildings testify to the city’s history, a history that began in 1200 when the people heard the need to equip the city of an area to use as a market.
• Basilica of San Petronio: church in Bologna most important and impressive, is the last great Gothic work carried out in Italy, a Latin cross with three naves and chapels. Inside there is a artistic Contribution of many artists including Masaccio.
• Basilica of Santo Stefano: a set of sacred buildings that make up the complex known as the Seven Churches. The triangular Piazza Santo Stefano welcomes the Chiesa del Crocefisso, the Basilica del Sepolcro, the Chiesa of San Vitale and Sant’Agricola, the Cortile di Pilato, the Chiesa del Martyrium, the medieval cloister and the Museum of Santo Stefano. All buildings are very old, also if even date back to different times, tehy maintain a degree of uniformity style, making the whole, the Romanesque building more interesting and best preserved of Bologna.
• Pinacoteca Nazionale: One of the most important collections of Italian museums. The works here present recount the Emilian art from the thirteenth in the early nineteenth century. There are works such artists as Raphael, Carracci, Reni, and many other figures involved in Bologna and private donations.

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On 23 September, after a major renovation work, was inaugurated by the President of Egypt Hosni Mubarakil the Egyptian Museum in Rome.
Managed directly by the Cairo, it collects pieces from major institutions national museum.
Located at the Academy of the Arts of Egypt, in Villa Borghese, the structure puts in shows 120 pieces of art Pharaonic, Islamic and Coptic Egyptians from the major museums.
Among the most important are:

• The magnificent statue of Chephren eighth dynasty,
• The box which is part of the treasure of Tutankhamun,
• The gigantic head of Akhenaton, the pharaoh who chose another god and another capital,
• Depictions of deities,
• Roman statues of youths,
• A copy of the Koran more recent.

The Academy also houses a collection of modern and contemporary Egyptian art including a painting of Hosni himself, who continues his work as a painter with exhibitions around the world and the collection of belonged to King Farouk.
Besides the museum, the building includes laboratories, a movie theater, an electronic library consisting of over 10 thousand books on the history and culture of Egypt, several conference rooms and a restaurant.
The space will be open to the public in October.

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