Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bologna, Italy

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 8.9 km
Ascend 110 m
Descend 98 m

Experience Bologna in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BolognaIndividual Sights in Bologna

Sight 1: Teatro Dehon

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The Dehon Theatre is a theatre in Bologna, Italy, built under the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio at the intersection of Via Libia and Via Sante Vincenzi, in the Cyrenaica district of the San Donato-San Vitale district.

Wikipedia: Teatro Dehon (IT)

981 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Porta San Donato

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Porta San Donato, also known as Porta Zamboni, was a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Bologna, Italy. It was a gate into the university area of the city.

Wikipedia: Porta San Donato, Bologna (EN)

604 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Porta San Vitale

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Porta San Vitale, sometimes known as Porta per Ravenna, was an eastern portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Bologna, Italy. It is located on a piazza of the same name, immediately west of the intersection of Via San Vitale with the Viale di Ciconvallazione.

Wikipedia: Porta San Vitale, Bologna (EN)

478 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa dei Santi Vitale e Agricola in Arena

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The church of Santi Vitale e Agricola in Arena is a Catholic church located in Via San Vitale, in the historic center of Bologna. The church is the seat of the parish of the same name in the Vicariate of Bologna-Centro of the Archdiocese of Bologna.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Vitale e Agricola in Arena (IT)

285 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano

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Chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano Georges Jansoone / CC BY 2.5

The Basilica of Saints Bartholomew and Gaetano is a Roman Catholic church in Bologna, Italy, Italy. In October 1924 Pope Pius XI elevated it to the dignity of a minor basilica.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano (IT)

321 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore

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The Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore is an historic Roman Catholic church in Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy, serving a monastery of Augustinian friars. It was built starting in 1267 and houses, among the rest, the Bentivoglio Chapel, featuring numerous Renaissance artworks.

Wikipedia: San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna (EN)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Oratorio di Santa Cecilia

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Oratorio di Santa Cecilia

The Oratory of Saints Cecilia and Valeriano is a religious site in central Bologna, found on Via Zamboni, contiguous to the portico of the church of San Giacomo Maggiore.

Wikipedia: Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, Bologna (EN)

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Garisenda Tower

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The Torre della Garisenda is one of the so-called two towers of Bologna, symbol of the city, located in Piazza di Porta Ravegnana, at the intersection of the ancient Via San Donato, Via San Vitale, Via Maggiore, Piazza della Mercanzia and Via Rizzoli.

Wikipedia: Torre della Garisenda (IT)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Asinelli Tower

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The Torre degli Asinelli is one of the so -called two towers of Bologna, symbol of the city, located in Piazza di Porta Ravegnana, at the intersection of the ancient streets San Donato, San Vitale, Maggiore and Castiglione. According to tradition, between 1109 and 1119 by the noble Gherardo Asinelli, the tower is 97.20 meters high, hangs west for 2.23 meters and has a staircase consisting of 498 steps inside.

Wikipedia: Torre degli Asinelli (IT)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Loggia dei Mercanti

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The Palazzo della Mercanzia in Bologna, also known as the Loggia dei Mercanti or Palazzo del Carrobbio, overlooks the square of the same name. From the end of the fourteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century it was the seat of the Universitas mercatorum and some Corporations. From 1797, with the French occupation, it became the seat of the Chamber of Commerce.

Wikipedia: Palazzo della Mercanzia (IT)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Piazza Santo Stefano

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Piazza Santo Stefano also known as Piazza delle Sette Chiese is a piazza of Bologna, Italy. It is a pedestrian zone, in a triangular space near the beginning of Via Santo Stefano, both of which are named after the Basilica of Santo Stefano which is located on the piazza.

Wikipedia: Piazza Santo Stefano (EN)

66 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Basilica di Santo Stefano

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The basilica of Santo Stefano encompasses a complex of religious edifices in the city of Bologna, Italy. Located on Piazza Santo Stefano, it is locally known as Sette Chiese and Santa Gerusalemme. It has the dignity of minor basilica.

Wikipedia: Santo Stefano, Bologna (EN)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: San Michele de' Leprosetti

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San Michele dei Leprosetti is a Greek-Catholic church serving the Ukrainian community in Bologna, Italy. It is situated on the piazza of the same name in the Quartiere San Vitale district. Records indicate that the original church burned down in 1210 and was rebuilt in 1361. It was consecrated to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in November 2009.

Wikipedia: San Michele dei Leprosetti (EN)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica

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Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica

The Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica is a music museum and music library in the Palazzo Aldini Sanguinetti, in the historic center of Bologna, Italy.

Wikipedia: Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica (EN), Website

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Museo civico d'arte industriale Davia Bargellini

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Museo civico d'arte industriale Davia Bargellini Photo: Paolo Carboni aka Biopresto / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Davia Bargellini Museum of Industrial Art is a museum located in the Palazzo Davia Bargellini in Bologna, Italy. It is part of the Civic Museums of Ancient Art and is managed by the Bologna Civic Museums Sector.

Wikipedia: Museo civico d'arte industriale Davia Bargellini (IT)

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Santa Maria dei Servi

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Santa Maria dei Servi No machine-readable author provided. Biopresto assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0

Santa Maria dei Servi is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bologna, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna (EN)

604 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: Teatro Eleonora Duse

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Teatro Eleonora Duse No machine-readable author provided. Biopresto assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Teatro Duse is one of the oldest extant theaters in the city of Bologna, Italy. Located in the Palazzo del Giglio, the theatre's address is at 42 Via Cartoleria, 40124. Built by the engineer Antonio Brunetti, it opened as the Teatro Brunetti in 1822. In 1898 it was re-named for the actress Eleonora Duse. While more frequently used as a venue for plays during its history, the theatre has also presented other types of performance such as operas and concerts. The opera composer Guglielmo Zuelli conducted operas at the theatre in the mid to late 1880s. In the 1890s the conductor Antonino Palminteri was active as a resident opera conductor at the theatre. Gialdino Gialdini's opera I due soci premiered at the theatre on 24 February 1892.

Wikipedia: Teatro Duse (EN)

482 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Basilica di San Domenico

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The patriarchal basilica of San Domenico is located in Bologna and is the sanctuary that houses the mortal remains of the saint of the same name, founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, who died in 1221 in a cell of the adjoining convent, which he himself instituted, and where the first General Chapters were held that gave shape to the order.

Wikipedia: Basilica di San Domenico (Bologna) (IT)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Tomba di Egidio Foscherari

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The tombs of the glossators of the Bolognese School preserve the remains of some of the first and most important professors of what in the Middle Ages was called the studium, that is, the University, which in Bologna was renowned above all for the teaching of Law: they were called glossators because they commented on the texts of Roman law with explanatory additions in the margin, the "glosses", to make the contents of the passages under consideration clearer. These new professional figures, cornerstones of the city's political and cultural life, chose to be buried in places of great urban visibility.

Wikipedia: Tombe dei Glossatori della Scuola bolognese (IT)

375 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Museo Civico Archeologico

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Museo Civico ArcheologicoStefano Bolognini / Attribution

The Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna is located in the fifteenth-century Palazzo Galvani building at Via dell'Archiginnasio 2 postal code 40124 Bologna, once known as the Hospital of Death. Founded in September 1881 by the merging of two separate museums: the one belonging to the University of Bologna – heir of the Room of Antiquity belonging to the Academy of Sciences founded by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili in (1714) – and that belonging to the City of Bologna (enriched by the antique collection of Artist Pelagio Palagi and the large amount of finds from excavations conducted in and around Bologna during these times.

Wikipedia: The Archaeological Civic Museum (MCA) of Bologna (EN)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Santa Maria della Vita

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The Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Vita is a late-Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Bologna, near the Piazza Maggiore.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Vita (EN)

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Strada del Jazz

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La Strada del Jazz is a project conceived in 2011 by Paolo Alberti and Gilberto Mora, and carried out in collaboration with the municipality of Bologna and the Quadrilatero.

Wikipedia: Strada del jazz (IT)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Cattedrale di San Pietro

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Cattedrale di San Pietro Steffen Brinkmann, claimed to be Szs here Hue and distortion fixed by Wikipeder. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bologna Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, is the cathedral of Bologna in Italy, and the seat and the metropolitan cathedral of the Archbishop of Bologna. Most of the present building dates from the 17th century, with a few parts from the late 16th century.

Wikipedia: Bologna Cathedral (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: Palazzo Re Enzo

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Palazzo Re Enzo Patrick Clenet / CC BY 2.5

Palazzo Re Enzo is a palace located on Piazza del Nettuno, 1 in the historic center of Bologna, northern Italy. The palace takes its name from Enzio of Sardinia, Frederick II's son, who was prisoner here from 1249 until his death in 1272. The palace is presently used to sponsor cultural events and exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Re Enzo (EN)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 25: Salone della Podestà

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Salone della Podestà Georges Jansoone / CC BY 2.5

The Palazzo del Podestà is a civic building in Bologna, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna (EN)

438 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Basilica di San Petronio

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Basilica di San Petronio

The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petronius, who was the bishop of Bologna in the fifth century. Construction began in 1390 and its main facade has remained unfinished since. The building was transferred from the city to the diocese in 1929; the basilica was finally consecrated in 1954. It has been the seat of the relics of Bologna's patron saint only since 2000; until then they were preserved in the Santo Stefano church of Bologna.

Wikipedia: San Petronio, Bologna (EN)

285 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Oratorio dello Spirito Santo

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The Oratory of the Holy Spirit is a Catholic church located in Via Val d'Aposa, in the historic center of Bologna.

Wikipedia: Oratorio dello Spirito Santo (Bologna) (IT)

446 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Santuario del Corpus Domini

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The Church of Corpus Domini, also known as the Chiesa della Santa is a Roman Catholic church in Bologna. It is part of an active monastery complex of the order of Clarissan nuns, that is nuns of the contemplative Second Order of St. Francis. The monastery is semi-cloistered.

Wikipedia: Corpus Domini, Bologna (EN)

1028 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 29: Porta Saragozza

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The Porta Saragozza of Bologna was one of the gates or portals in the medieval walls of this city.

Wikipedia: Porta Saragozza, Bologna (EN)

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