Bologna

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04 June 2011

We want to spend the next few days of the trip visiting some of the towns and cities in Northern Italy we didn’t have time to see on our last trip to this country so we drove 200k north west to Bologna and found an excellent camp site in the outskirts with good bus connections into the historic centre.

Bologna turned out to be most attractive and well preserved with many splendid churches, palaces and other buildings and it was humming with Saturday afternoon shoppers and part of its large student population. It is well known for the miles of its medieval porticos lining the streets which are built high enough to take people on horseback. The tradition is continued in modern buildings. They were put to good use in the early evening as we had a huge thunderstorm.

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