BOLOGNA TRAVEL GUIDE: How to Feel, Eat and Live the Italian City That Feeds the World

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Bologna has three nicknames, and each one is true. La Grassa — the Fat — for the richest regional cuisine in Italy, the city whose meat sauce the world has been mispronouncing and mismaking for a century. La Rossa — the Red — for the terracotta of the buildings and the Communist municipal tradition that produced, for fifty years, the most competent local government in Italy. La Dotta — the Learned — for the University of Bologna, founded in 1088, the oldest university in the western world.


In this complete travel guide, Sofía Kristiansen takes you through every layer of the city: the medieval towers and the Piazza Maggiore, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio, the thirty-eight kilometers of covered arcades that make Bologna the only city in the world you can walk entirely under shelter, the Mercado di Mezzo with its hanging mortadelle and its fresh tortellini, the San Luca pilgrimage along its centuries-old portico, and the day trips to Parma, Modena, and Ferrara that complete the most extraordinary food geography in Europe. Bologna has been answering the question of how to live well for nine centuries. Its answers are in the food, the arcades, and the streets. And the answers are very good.

Bologna has three nicknames, and each one is true. La Grassa — the Fat — for the richest regional cuisine in Italy, the city whose meat sauce the world has been mispronouncing and mismaking for a century. La Rossa — the Red — for the terracotta of the buildings and the Communist municipal traditi...

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Sofía Kristiansen is an independent writer specializing in audio travel guides. She has spent years exploring the world's capitals with one clear goal: to truly understand them before writing about them. She has no interest in postcard itineraries or the same monument lists everyone repeats. What interests her is the rhythm of each city, its food, its people and those corners that only reveal themselves when you stay long enough.

Her guides are born from direct experience and written for travelers who want to live their destinations, not just visit them. With a warm, practical and passionate style, Sofía writes the way a good friend talks when they know a place firsthand.

Sofía Kristiansen is an independent writer specializing in audio travel guides. She has spent years exploring the world's capitals with one clear goal: to truly understand them before writing about them. She has no interest in postcard itineraries or the same monument lists everyone repeats. What...

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