Category: Culture

When I had lunch with Franco last week he told me about the Festival della Zuppa (soup) scheduled for this weekend in a near-by suburb of Bologna, Corticella. Since I have always wanted to go so some kind of festival or sagra related to food ( I think a sagra is always a food thing) […]

The Library Salaborsa. I mention this library in a previous post and today I returned to take some photos. It’s the most beautiful library I’ve ever seen and is used a great deal. There are two large floors with an indoor covered “courtyard”. I was amazed to see so many people there. The two times […]

Well, not really an ode, or even a poem. Maybe it should be a paean (I don’t know that I’ve ever actually used that word before) that is a praise of Bologna. Now that I have a fixed schedule to go back to Bologna for two months I am becoming more and more nostalgic. I […]

After almost two weeks of wandering around the regions of Italy which border the Adriatic coast it was time to head home. Most of the trip from Bologna down to Puglia was in relatively small bites save for the 4 hour race from Giulianova, Abruzzo to Fasano,Puglia one Sunday morning. Now I was facing the […]