Showing posts with label Bologna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bologna. Show all posts

3.11.2010

La Grossa

Finally, Bologna's best nickname: La Grossa. After looking at these pictures, it shouldn't be too hard to guess why...


And no, unfortunately I did not eat all of this on my own.

La Rossa

Another name for Bologna is La Rossa, the red one, so-called for two reasons: the architecture, and its historical fascist and / or communist leanings, depending on the decade.



The oldest permanent nativity scene, dating back to the fourteenth century.

3.08.2010

La Dotta

Bologna is known as La Dotta, the educated one, the clever one. Here are pictures from the capitol building there, a little nicer than the California chambers, no?