ASSESSORATO AL TURISMO
COMUNE DI BOLOGNA

THE CITY CENTRE

The painstaking effort begins to bear fruit and the urban plan is gradually taking shape under our eyes. We will now try to extend the picture to include some vital thoroughfares which branch out from Piazza Maggiore.

A new fragment, and then another: Piazza Re Enzo.
Three, four, five new pieces: Via Rizzoli and the Roman road that lies below it, the decumano massimo, still visible from the pedestrian underpass.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten fagments: the Two Towers - the Torre degli Asinelli, the higher of the two, and the Garisenda - soaring stalagmites, an impassive Don Quixote and his Sancho Pancha, guardians and symbols of the city. Each new fragment is truly a discovery, and each place is somehow already defined by the other pieces. There, in front of the Garisenda tower, in Piazza Ravegnana, stands Palazzo Strazzaroli, guarding the entrance to the ancient Jewish ghetto. Let's walk along via dé Giudei, through an intricate maze of alleyways full of atmosphere and recently enlivened by the presence of craft workshops harmoniously blending into the architectural context: we feel as if we were walking through the unsubstantial essence of the past.





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