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Shopping The key to shopping in Italy is to look in every little shop as you walk around, paying attention to price tags. Please take note that the hours listed usually specify a closure in the afternoons. There is no one place to get the perfect pair of shoes or the perfect ties or the perfect anything: you have to look all over, but this is half the fun. If you can't find what you want at the price you want to pay for it, keep looking, chances are you will find something somewhere else that will work perfectly.
Cultura Bologna is a historical city, with around 380, 000 inhabitants. Although it is known and loved by all Italians, it is less well known among foreign visitors. It is the capital and largest city of Emilia-Romagna (a region in northern Italy). Bologna is a gorgeous Northern Italian city, famed for the oldest university in the Western world, lively student population, exquisite food, typical brick terracotta-roofed architecture and porticos, theatre and nightlife. It is a must see!
History The strategic location of the city deeply moulded its history, making Bologna one of the most evocative places on earth. Inhabited since the X Century B. C. -during the Iron age-, it was fortified by the Celts and became a municipality under the Romans. The presence through the centuries of the Huns, Goths, Lombards, Carolings, Austrians and French, have each left traces which are still visible on the city today.
Bologna has always been fighting for freedom hanging in the balance between the dominance of Empires, Reigns, the Church and autonomy. Bologna was ruled by the Lordship of two families, Pepoli and Bentivoglio as well as being a Papal fiefdom. It was therefore a city of the Guelphs, but its soul belonged to the Ghibellines. Bologna also had the first Italian City Council and it was one of the first cities in the world which approved a law in order to abolish slavery: the Liber Paradisus, in 1256. This owes its opening to the movements of the lively environment surrounding the Alma Mater, the oldest University of the world. It was founded in 1088 and its fame draws students from all over the world.
Sights Archaeological Museum, Jewish Museum, Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna, , National Picture Gallery. The University Museums, Museo di Antropologia, Museo di Mineralogia, Museo di Anatomia Patologica.

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