I'm in love... with Bologna 97 metres up

I'm in love... with Bologna

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March 4th 2006
Bologne, Italia, as Italians refer to it, is a beautiful city in northern Italy that I have fallen in love with. It is shadowed by the three famous cities that form a triangle around it - Milan, Florence and Venice. That means it isn’t over-invaded by tourists and remains a truly cultural centre of Europe. It has really kept a small town feel, but it certainly ain't small! After the meetin ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more