Bologna attractions on the map

The coronation ceremony will explain why the victor and the defeated man needed a shared walkway.

The history of the palace reveals the moment when street violence disrupted the transfer of city power.

Here, the proclamation of freedom will turn from a solemn gesture into a long and expensive municipal operation.

The procession's endpoint brings the route back to a dispute over land, priests, and the right to support a community on the hill.

The finale will explain why the saint found here received an enormous basilica at the beginning of the route.

The story of the first academic year will explain how the new order changed relations between students and the university.

This is where the story begins of people whom urban improvements deprived of their customary place of trade.

The scientific rooms will link one man's military downfall to the founding of a new city institution.

Here, the museum collection is presented as a collection of works that were repeatedly moved and saved.

The crossing will link the two sections of the portico and show the decision that changed its builder's career.

The history of a personal book collection will explain why the library appeared here before the university itself.

Here you will learn why a papal monument immediately became the subject of an everyday dispute.

This stop explains why independent vendors remained under one roof after the renovation.

The finale will show how merchants sped up legal proceedings and turned the loss of business trust into a public punishment.

Here you will see how replacing pipes gave cause to remake an entire city square.

At this stop, the service entrance will prove more important than the theater’s grand façade.

The final stop will bring together a dispute over a monument and a transport hub in one surviving forework.

The surviving ceremonial route makes it possible to reconstruct the basilica's connection with the vanished family palace.

Here, a failed attempt at reconciliation will lead to a hospital that occupied almost the entire block.

The street's width will show which part of the old trading quarter was demolished to make way for the new thoroughfare.

A family business will provide a continuous thread of local trade from the nineteenth century through to subsequent generations.

The old shops will explain how the city twice stripped fishmongers of their monopoly and again allowed competitors access to buyers.

Here the annual procession acquired a permanent city gateway, for whose sake the gate itself was later altered.

The commercial thoroughfare links three vanished everyday names with the posthumous memory of one man.

One niche preserves the story of a family promise that the sons had to fulfill after their father's death.