Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Bologna, Italy

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Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 4.5 km
Ascend 46 m
Descend 51 m

Experience Bologna in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BolognaIndividual Sights in Bologna

Sight 1: Giardini Margherita

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The Giardini Margherita is a park in Bologna, Italy, located just south of the city centre.

Wikipedia: Giardini Margherita (EN)

958 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Museo Carducci

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Museo Carducci

Casa Carducci is a historic building in Bologna, so called because it was the residence of the poet Giosuè Carducci and today the seat of a cultural institute dedicated to him which includes the historic residence with garden and monument, library and archive, house-museum, collection of Carducci's objects and documents, information center specialized in the writer's work, center for literary studies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The institute is a special section of the Archiginnasio Library and houses the Commission for language texts of which Carducci was president as well as the civic museum of the Risorgimento.

Wikipedia: Casa Carducci (IT)

869 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Porta San Vitale

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Porta San Vitale, sometimes known as Porta per Ravenna, was an eastern portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Bologna, Italy. It is located on a piazza of the same name, immediately west of the intersection of Via San Vitale with the Viale di Ciconvallazione.

Wikipedia: Porta San Vitale, Bologna (EN)

553 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Santa Maria dei Servi

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Santa Maria dei Servi is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bologna, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna (EN)

474 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Piazza Santo Stefano

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Piazza Santo Stefano also known as Piazza delle Sette Chiese is a piazza of Bologna, Italy. It is a pedestrian zone, in a triangular space near the beginning of Via Santo Stefano, both of which are named after the Basilica of Santo Stefano which is located on the piazza.

Wikipedia: Piazza Santo Stefano (EN)

472 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Teatro Eleonora Duse

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The Teatro Duse is one of the oldest extant theaters in the city of Bologna, Italy. Located in the Palazzo del Giglio, the theatre's address is at 42 Via Cartoleria, 40124. Built by the engineer Antonio Brunetti, it opened as the Teatro Brunetti in 1822. In 1898 it was re-named for the actress Eleonora Duse. While more frequently used as a venue for plays during its history, the theatre has also presented other types of performance such as operas and concerts. The opera composer Guglielmo Zuelli conducted operas at the theatre in the mid to late 1880s. In the 1890s the conductor Antonino Palminteri was active as a resident opera conductor at the theatre. Gialdino Gialdini's opera I due soci premiered at the theatre on 24 February 1892.

Wikipedia: Teatro Duse (EN)

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Porta Castiglione

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Porta Castiglione was a portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Bologna, Italy.

Wikipedia: Porta Castiglione, Bologna (EN)

757 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 8: Basilica di San Domenico

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The patriarchal basilica of San Domenico is located in Bologna and is the sanctuary that houses the mortal remains of the saint of the same name, founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, who died in 1221 in a cell of the adjoining convent, which he himself established, and where the first General Chapters that gave shape to the order were held.

Wikipedia: Basilica di San Domenico (Bologna) (IT)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Tomba di Egidio Foscherari

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The tombs of the glossators of the Bolognese School preserve the remains of some of the first and most important professors of what in the Middle Ages was called the studium, i.e. the University, which in Bologna was renowned above all for the teaching of Law: they were called glossators because they commented on the texts of Roman law with explanatory additions in the margin, the "glosses", to make the contents of the passages under consideration clearer. These new professional figures, cornerstones of the city's political and cultural life, chose to be buried in places of great urban visibility.

Wikipedia: Tombe dei Glossatori della Scuola bolognese (IT)

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