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Hi, my wife and I are about to visit Bologna for 4 days, 21-25 Feb, and are wondering about accomodation. Hotel Fiera is very cheap, €152 for the four nights, but I know it's a little way from the centre. We don't mind walking, or getting a bus/tram, how easy is this? If it's hard, does anyone know of reasonably priced hotels that are closer to the centre, or that you would recommend?
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Steve.
Hmmmn, well, I haven't stayed at the Hotel Fiera, but I see that it is about 1.5 kilometers (about a mile) north of the edge of the city center. We stayed at the Jolly Hotel de la Gare, which is, as the name implies, near the train station, which is also on the north side of the city center (about 2 kilometers from your hotel). I like the de la Gare, but it is not cheap, being a business class hotel.
However, I know that it was an easy walk into the city center from the de la Gare, so you would be adding some 20 minutes to that walk each way - certainly doable if you were walkers.
Note that your hotel is on the Via Stalingrado, which is a main road, so I would have to believe that there would be city buses along that road. Well, I just looked at the Bologna transit website (in English at http://www.atc.bo.it/english/index.asp) and it look slike several lines run down that stretch...
Bill
We were expected to speak Italian. No one would really speak English to us, so we wre thrown on to our own resources. I greatly improved my passable Italian under pressure (and enjoyed doing it!. Enjoy sitting at the outdoor cafes, drinking cappuchino and people watching. What else?
Bologna is the major centre for railway transportation for the region of Emilia Romagna. Which I find rather logical, given that it’s the region’s capital, after all. This is also the only place (or may be one of two places) where you can purchase Trenitalia, Interrail and other rail passes.
When it comes to rail links, there are many trains linking Bologna with other attractive spots in Emilia Romagna (I shall make a separate entry, I think, to deal with the links to other regions). Most of them are regional trains that stop at most stations, including Rimini, Cesena, Forli, Parma,Fidenza, Ravenna and many others. In fact, there are few rail routes that bypass Bologna.
Some faster trains also cross the region and they all stop in Bologna with stops also in Rimini (for Intercity and Eurostar), Forli, Cesena, Faenza, Imola, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza, and Fidenza (for Intercity trains).
Started with lardo e crostini - which was one of my favorite dishes of the region. For a primi - tortellini filled with spiced pumpkin - another regional favorite. For my secondo - cheese flan with white truffles. I had a local lambrusco. as a counter point to all the rich food the lardo (though I liked Tamburini's better)
Due Torri are located in the middle of the Old Town. The construction of the taller one (Torre degli Asinelli) commenced at anno 1109 and lasted some ten years. It is 97.20 meters (over 100 yards) high. It is open to public and offers some very nice views of the city from its top.
The shorter tower (Torre Garisenda) is a "mere" 48.16 meters tall and it is leanning!Incredible!
I'll confess it: I'm a university junkie. I could ramble happily around the campus of an institution of higher learning anywhere in the world...particularly if it features a bookshop. But our time in Bologna was limited and the day was extremely hot, so I had resigned myself to NOT seeing this ancient seat of learning, which has been churning out intellectuals with credentials for more than a thousand years.
But we were looking for the Opera (another of my passions), and we happened to stumble upon the Law School. Since my traveling companion is a law professor in the US and we're both attorneys, this was of considerable interest. Plus, it looked really old -- it turns out to have been built in the mid-sixteenth century, with a recent addition a couple of hundred years back. We strolled in and were prepared to follow one of the many students into a lecture hall, just to see how it compared with our own alma mater, when we realized from the chatter around us that virtually all the young people were Americans. From which, we concluded that they were attending a summer program, probably led by US professors, and we'd both seen plenty of that sort of thing back home. So we went to the Oratory of St. Ceceilia instead, which was truly worth the visit.
But you might be there during the term, so forge ahead! See how the other half lives, or litigates. And then drop me a line so I can sound intelligent the next time it comes up in conversation.
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