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.
Hotel, bed & breakfasts, hostels, apartments and farm holidays are solutions that will keep the warmth, hospitality and cordiality typical of Bologna.
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The aquarium largest of Adriatic, hosts over 100 fish tanks with 2500000 liters of seawater containing 300 specimens of 400 species.
The visit to the Aquarium of Cattolica is an unforgettable experience because it offers the opportunity to learn, observe, admire and get excited in front of many sea creatures, and not only unknown to us.
Beautiful and fascinating animals will capture your attention and give the idea of how vast and populated and incredible it’s the underwater world.
It’s possible to make four types of paths:
- Blue Path: it shows the history of the planet and with it his biological evolution: sharks, penguins, turtles and jellyfish are just some of the protagonists. The visit will be a tour of the world below the water surface, starting from the Mediterranean Sea via the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean up to the beautiful and colorful coral reefs of the Red Sea, populated by colorful organisms.
- Purple Path: unique opportunity to discover the sounds made by the habitants of the seas. Discover how to communicate fish, marine mammals and invertebrates.
The combined rhythms of fish and cetaceans is the basis of the first true “concert of the Sea“, five exciting minutes created by Andrea Centazzo, who used the combined voices of these creatures as real musical instruments, through the use of technology.
- Green Path: a place full of charm and mystery dedicated to exotic animals, get surprised by chameleons, frogs, insects and snakes, tortoises and many others.
- Yellow Path: path to the discovery of the sea and navigation with beautiful models of ships of various nations where you just touch some objects to animate them and hear them tell all their secrets
For the more adventurous, you can perform, with the help of highly qualified staff, safely immersions with sharks.
News of summer 2010 is the tank of the penguins which responds to the mission of the Aquarium of Cattolica, always been committed to raising awareness and educating the general public to conservation, management and responsible use of aquatic habitats through the knowledge and animal species and their habitats.
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The Via Francigena is the route that, in the Middle Ages, thousands of pilgrims walked from Canterbury to get to Rome.
The route had to be made mostly on foot (for penitential reasons) with an average of 20-25 kilometers per day and it was driven by a fundamentally devotional: the pilgrimage to the holy places of Christianity.
This street full of history and spirituality crossed England, France and finally Italy.
Here are the cities where stop and walk on Via Francigena: Gran San Bernardo, Aosta, Ivrea, Santhia, Vercelli, Pavia, Piacenza, Fiorenzuola Fidenza, Parma, Fornovo, Pontremoli, Aulla Luni, Lucca, San Genesio, San Gimignano, Siena, San Quirico, Bolsena, Viterbo, Sutri and finally Rome.
On the way is also possible to walk or bike on mountain and plain roads leading to the capital.
Many structures, including Farm Holidays and Bed and Breakfast, can give hospitality to pilgrims who decided to make this journey into the mystical and spiritual center of Christianity.
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