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Shibawanko posted:How is Bologna? I've been to Italy only once in my life and that was to Rome, which was way too touristy for my tastes, I'm considering a short trip in the fall or winter. We like to simply sit around and eat great affordable food and drink wine most of all, is Bologna good for that? Bologna is nice and super not touristy at all. There are lots of students and some foreign students, but at least from my one visit there in late spring, there are essentially zero foreign tourists. Make sure that you do the walk up to the San Luca church. It's a crazy walkway and the view from the hill is pretty nice, although not mindblowing. That they made like a 2 mile long covered walkway to the place is, however, kind of mindblowing. Whoever built Bologna must have had a cousin who was in the business of selling covered walkways because holy poo poo did they go all out on that. Other than that I don't think there's really any major draw to Bologna, which is kind of a relief actually since it means you can just sit around and relax and enjoy the food instead of worrying that you missed out on X. Actually basically all of Emilia-Romagna is like that. A bunch of nice stuff but nothing so famous that you feel obligated to go and see it, so instead of checklist checking you can actually enjoy your entire time. I would maybe not go to Bologna during student vacation times though; I bet the city looks like the setting for a zombie film between semesters given that something like 20% of the city's population is university students.
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Saladman posted:Other than that I don't think there's really any major draw to Bologna, which is kind of a relief actually since it means you can just sit around and relax and enjoy the food instead of worrying that you missed out on X. Actually basically all of Emilia-Romagna is like that. A bunch of nice stuff but nothing so famous that you feel obligated to go and see it, so instead of checklist checking you can actually enjoy your entire time. Oooh, I love places like that! Bologna's going on my list of places to visit now.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:56
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Actually if you have time I'd recommend a day-trip out to Ravenna, where you'll find incredible Byzantine-era Christian mosaics inside a bunch of different churches. I'm a huge fan of mosaic art so YMMV, but our mental imagery of Christian icons and scenes is so dominated by the Renaissance, it's incredible to see stuff from long before that, with a totally different style.
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Jul 16, 2018 20:45
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gently caress yeah I'm going to Bologna then. When it comes to travel I basically stopped giving a poo poo about buildings and landmarks (except maybe museums...) and care only about food and drink.
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Jul 20, 2018 05:45
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Shibawanko posted:gently caress yeah I'm going to Bologna then. When it comes to travel I basically stopped giving a poo poo about buildings and landmarks (except maybe museums...) and care only about food and drink. Yeah, me too. Cool thing about museums: sometimes the small out-of-the-way ones have some really interesting and idiosyncratic collections, and they are often more pleasant to visit than "destination museums" because they aren't packed with people constantly.
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Jul 20, 2018 21:04
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Shibawanko posted:gently caress yeah I'm going to Bologna then. When it comes to travel I basically stopped giving a poo poo about buildings and landmarks (except maybe museums...) and care only about food and drink. 
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Jul 21, 2018 07:30
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If I can't put it in my mouth it don't matter
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