Tours & Activities in Bologna
The places that we are going to see are all placed in the center of Bologna. We will talk about food, lifestyle, history, some people and how Bologna developed itself.
Bologna offers much more then just tasty food and wines.
City its full of resturants, bars and beautiful spots.
Places where we will have a walk in town:
-Archiginnasio (First University in Europe) and Square Galvani
-Piazza Maggiore
-Quadrilatero district (Food area)
-Square Santo Stefano
-2 Towers
Lets discover it together and lets have some fun!
Tour just in English and only with direct booking!
The free tour of Bologna is for all audiences: children, adults, couples, families... We will discover the city, I will explain the secrets and I will show you the most emblematic sites. What are we going to discover? -It begins with Piazza Galvani -Then we will see the Archiginnasio, the oldest university in the West. -Next we will see the church santa maria de la vita, santo Stefano, the 2 towers, the palace of King Enzo, San Pietro and the Finestrella dil canale di Reno. ¡ Sign up for a different guided tour of the essential places of Bologna!
Hunting for the Towers!
Did you know that in the Middle Ages Bologna had almost 100 towers? Some almost 100 m high, like the Torre degli Asinelli, others lower and used as fortified houses.
Today we can admire about 23 towers, incorporated into the modern city.
We will go hunting for a dozen of these, and we will explore the historic center with our nose up!
For each stage, we will see 1 or more medieval towers.
Where are we going to go:
- Piazza del Nettuno
- Piazza Maggiore
- Galileo Galilei square
- Piazza dei Celestini and Catalani tower
- Galluzzi court and tower
- Piazza Galvani and Archiginnasio
- Via Marchesana (mwzzo market)
- Minghetti Square
- Piazza Santo Stefano
- Piazza della Mercanzia
- Torre Asinelli and Garisenda
- Vicolo Mandria
- Piazzetta Prendiparte
- Altabella Tower
- King Enzo square
- Voltone del Podestà
- Piazza Maggiore
Bologna is unique: on tour with Maurizio you will understand why its University is not really the oldest, but it is different from all the others, why the stock market was born here and why in the Middle Ages this place was at the center of the world economy.
Because only here for centuries has there existed a secular Basilica, dedicated to a lay saint for a lay people. Bologna is the cradle of secularism, despite having been part of the State of the Church for centuries. This is why he made the magical word LIBERTAS his motto.
With Maurizio you will discover the PORTICOS, and their reason for existing, THE ARCHIGINNASIO and its student coats of arms, one of the oldest still active MARKETS in Europe, the JAZZ street, the JEWISH GHETTO and the SANCTA JERUSALEM BONONIENSIS, as well as the TOWERS and HIDDEN CHANNELS.
And you will finally understand why we eat so much and well here. With Maurizio BOLOGNA you will not forget it. Never again.
And you will want to come back
