Tagged With "Bologna"
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 22, 2015: The 7 churches of Santo Stefano, Bologna
At first glance, you see a church, albeit an oddly solid one with few windows, and no grand portico. At a further glance, it looks like parts of three churches wedged together. And then from the inside, the full picture becomes clear:...
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June 16 2019: Bologna's Porticoed Streets
Jonathan L walked among the porticoed streets of Bologna and brought back these pictures of light and shadow
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June 30, 2019: Electric Bus Wires, Bologna, Italy
While walking through Bologna, Jonathan L looked skyward and saw this fascinating crossing of electrical wires
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Bologna: a Wonderful City to Walk Around
Jonathan L takes us on a walk along the porticoed streets of Bologna.
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Visiting Bologna's churches on Easter Sunday
Jonathan L visited two of Bologna's cathedrals on Easter morning.
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Visiting some of Bologna's Museums
Jonathan L takes on a tour of two of Bologna's wonderful museums
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July 7, 2019: Street Murals in Dozza, Italy
Jonathan L shows us some of the amazing street murals from the town of Dozza in Italy
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Bologna's stray cats get a luxury apartment
Woman's will leaves apartment to be sold to benefit stray cats
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The Restorer, Bologna
Artist at work, restoring the frescoes of the Archiginnasio, one the principal building of Bologna's University, and now home to a municipal library.
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Bologna's San Petronio: 625 years behind schedule
Bologna's San Petronio Basilica is one of the world's largest churches, unfinished after more than six centuries, but magnificent nonetheless.
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The 'skinned men' of Bologna University
Carved in precise detail, these two 'skinned men' hold up a canopy over the anatomy teacher's chair in Bologna's University medical school.
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Mar. 12, 2016: Finding a Pharmacy, Bologna
In Europe, it's generally easy to locate a pharmacy by searching for a lit-up green cross sign, but in Bologna, we found some special signs...
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Re: Bologna's stray cats get a luxury apartment
I could understand it if she'd done this for dogs, but for cats it seems a little much to me.....
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Re: June 30, 2019: Electric Bus Wires, Bologna, Italy
In Basel, where the trolleys are trams, there are also lots of complicated overheads...and also complex track intersections under them...