VirtualGlobetrotting: Italy: Bologna

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Funerale al cimitero Borgo Panigale
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Abandoned Water Park
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Università di Bologna (oldest university in the world)
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The University of Bologna (Italian Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is the oldest continually operating degree-granting university in the world, and the second biggest university in Italy. It is located in the city of Bologna. The University of Bologna was the first university founded in the western world (AD 1088) and since 2000, its motto has been Alma mater studiorum (Latin for "fostering mother of studies"). The university received a charter from Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but in the 19th century, a committee of historians led by Giosuè Carducci traced the birth of the University back to 1088. The University celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1988, making it arguably the longest-lived occidental university. The University of Bologna is historically notable for its teaching of canon and civil law.

Piazza Maggiore
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By: AdrianoMark.
Piazza Maggiore is a square in Bologna, Italy. It was created in 1200. It is one of the finest squares in all of Italy

Ducati factory
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Ikea Bologna
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Montecuccolino nuclear reactor
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
Il reattore nucleare RB-3 di Montecuccolino è destinato ad attività di ricerca. E' in gestione ENEA ed è attualmente in fase di disattivazione.

"Fontana di Nettuno"
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The Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) of Bologna is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore. Its bronze figure of Neptune, extending his reach in a lordly gesture of stilling and controlling the waters, is an early work of Giambologna's maturity, completed about 1567.

Stadio Renato dall'Ara
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Bologna G. Marconi Airport (BLQ)
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Porta San Felice
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Villa Aldini
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In 1116 a little church dedicated to the Madonna was built on top of the Colle dell'Osservanza, and in 1805, while he was visiting Bologna, Napoleon saw it and was so struck by its magnificent view that he had a villa built nearby. This magnificent building was built between 1811 and 1816 by Giuseppe Nadi under the orders of the Napoleonic minister, Antonio Aldini. The façade is in a neoclassical style with a large pronaos with ionic columns, and a tympanum enriched by stucco reliefs depicting the Olympian Gods. The little round church dedicated to the Madonna was encompassed inside the villa.

Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati
Effi (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Effi.
The Villa is located in the Camaldoli estate purchased by Annibale Marescotti in 1616. A few years later, in 1690, after Raniero's death, the noble building and its gardens became the property of the Aldrovandi family. Despite slight renovations on the building to make it suitable for an important senatorial family, the villa kept untouched its single-floor structure with open gallery until 1761, when works were initiated in preparation for the wedding of Gianfrancesco Aldrovandi Marescotti with Lucrezia Fontanelli. On September 24th, 1763 the small theatre with two tiers of open galleries supported by stucco caryatids and telamones by Petronio Tadolini, with busts by F. Balugani and paintings by Basoli was inaugurated. In 1765 the second storey was added to the villa. The final project was made by Francesco Tadolini who from the first half of 1770 to 1772, inspired by Neo-classical models, completed the new layout of the villa with the central body with a six-column porch, tympanum and partially elliptic wings with porch. This is the transposition in a Bolognese setting of a Venetian villa with barchesse clearly in Palladian style. In the late 18th century the villa became the property of Marquis Mazzacorati. Now the villa houses the Historical Museum of Toy Soldiers "Mario Massacesi".

Due Torri (Two Towers)
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By: upcome.
Very nice city design.

Palazzo Re Enzo
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Basilica di San Petronio & Piazza Maggiore
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Named after the city’s patron saint, the Basilica of St Petronius is Bologna’s largest house of worship and dominates Piazza Maggiore with its imposing pockmarked façade. Begun in 1392, the basilica was originally intended to be larger than St Peter’s in Rome. Plans came to a halt, however, when the pope refused permission for such a grandiose scheme. The unfinished façade stares across the Piazza like a jilted bride, her rosy complexion topped by a heavy frown of bare brick. Carvings in the central door, depicting scenes from the Old and New testaments, are by Sienese artist Jacopo della Quercia. Inside, a brass meridian in the floor of the north aisle forms an ingenious solar clock – a small hole in the roof allows the sun to shine on the correct spot. Tradition has it that when the sun’s rays fall in the shape of a heart, it is time to seek a husband.

Porta San Vitale

Bologna Centrale railway station
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Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. It is at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008 and the northern end of the Bologna–Florence Direttissima, opened on 22 April 1934. A new high-speed line to Florence opened on 13 December 2009.

Porta Saragozza

Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca
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Test Track

Stadio Gianni Falchi
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Home field to Italeri Fortitudo Bologna

Ustica air disaster museum
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Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870, also known in the Italian media as the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), was an Italian flight that suffered an in-flight explosion while in route from Bologna, Italy to Palermo, Italy. It was a regularly scheduled flight from Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna, Italy to Palermo International Airport in Palermo, Italy. The flight departed 2 hours late at 8.08 pm CET on 27 June 1980. At the controls of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 that evening were Captain Domenico Gatti and First Officer Enzo Fontana.
The aircraft (registered I-TIGI), which left Guglielmo Marconi Airport bound for Palermo International Airport, crashed at 8.59 pm CET into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica, Italy about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Naples, Italy. All 81 people on board were killed (2 flight crew members, 2 flight attendants, and 77 passengers).
Two Italian Air Force F-104s were scrambled at 9.00 pm CET from Grosseto Air Force Base to locate the accident area and to spot any survivors but they failed due to lack of visibility. In July 2006 the re-assembled fragments of the DC-9 aircraft were returned to Bologna from Pratica di Mare Air Force Base near Rome. On 23 June 2008, Italy announced that they have reopened the case of Flight 870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870

Basilica di San Domenico

Montagnola Park (Montagnola Parco)
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Ducati
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Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is a motorcycle manufacturer in Bologna, Italy. It produces motorcycles for both road use and motorcycle racing.
In April 2012, German automobile manufacturer Audi, part of Volkswagen Group, announced its intention to acquire Ducati.

Car Accident

Towers of Bologna
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'Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau' by Le Corbusier
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By: pmoore66.
This is a 1977 recreation of the 1924 original.
Recreation by Jose Oubrerie and Giuliano Gresleri

Torre dei Prendiparte

Porta San Donato

Man carrying a truck on his back
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Hit a Crack in the Road
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Northern Cross Radio Telescope
"Searches for millisecond pulsars conducted up to now were strongly biased against the detection of periodicities near or below the period value 1.5 ms or the original millisecond pulsar B1937+21. This value is remarkably close to the limiting period of neutron stars predicted by the so-called ``stiff'' equation of state of the ultradense matter. On the other hand, other realistic equations of state, such as the ``soft'' one, predict a much lower limiting spin period (~0.6 ms) for a rotating neutron star - a range that was never searched by radioastronomers. So, a sensitive search for pulsars in the sub-millisecond period range can be used to put constraints on the equation of state of matter at nuclear densities. Triggered by these considerations, we constructed equipment, including an online data-processing facility, specifically designed to undertake a large scale survey of the galactic field for sub-millisecond pulsars, up to a limiting spin period of 0.15 ms. We discuss the main characteristics of the pulsar equipment and the survey plan."
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Porta Galliera
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The Galliera city-gate was built in 1661 on the remains of its 12th-century predecessor. It was designed in a typically Baroque style by Bartolomeo Provaglia. In the gardens opposite there is a statue of Ugo Bassi which was cast by Carlo Parmeggiani in 1888. Nearby, you can see the remains of the old Rocca di Galliera. This was the old castle once owned by the Pontiff's legation.

Ad on Disney Bus
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Statue of San Petronio
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The statue of San Petronio made by Gabriele Brunelli in 1670 was again placed under the towers, after being removed in 1871 for "traffic reasons".

Fontana di Nettuno
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Ippodromo bologna
harness racing

Galvani's statue on Piazza Galvani
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Basilica di San Franscesco
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Fokker 100 "Yamamay"
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San Vittore Observatory

Very long apartment building

Stazione Radioastronomica di Medicina
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Porta Mascarella

Amore

Giant Ant

Porta Castiglione

Paladozza palas
Home of Fortitudo pallacanestro

August 1980 Bologna bombing Clock Memorial
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By: GlobalPlayer.
The area of the station where the bomb detonated has been reconstructed, but, as a memorial to the attack, the flooring has been kept in the same condition, and a deep crack in the main wall has been left as is. Moreover, the station main clock is forever stopped at 10:25, the exact time of the explosion.

Bionic Robot
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Jawbreaker, Fluf & That Dog Concert - 1995

Graffiti by Blu

Futurshow palas
Home of Virtus forza Bologna

Graffiti

Res Rubini Srl

il Resto del Carlino headquarters
il Resto del Carlino is an Italian local newspaper based in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the oldest newspaper in Italy.

Antipope Alexander V's tomb
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By: Dania.
At Basilica of San Francesco
Alexander V was Antipope from June 26. 1409 to May 3. 1410.

Bologna War Cemetery
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Polish War Cemetery Bologna
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By: Dania.
On this Polish War Cemetery are 1,416 graves.

Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 [TC-AVP]
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Carabinieri

Toy Soldier Museum
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Museo Nazionale Del Soldatino “Mario Massaccesi”

Lamborghini LP 570-4 Superleggera
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Fire truck

Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe
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Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe is apart of the Johns Hopkins University serves as the European campus for the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

'Piazza, Fiere di Bologna' by Isamu Noguchi
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By: pmoore66.
1979
at Piazza Renzo Imbeni