Bologna

Bologna is a beautiful and historic city in the region of Northeast Italy. It has the oldest university in the Western world, a lively student population, excellent food, a striking brick terracotta-roofed cityscape, and lots to see and do.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Palazzo Re Enzo.

Theater building
Photo: Lorenzo Gaudenzi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an opera house in , Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season.

Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a palace located on Piazza del Nettuno, 1 in the historic center of , northern . The palace takes its name from Enzio of Sardinia, Frederick II's son, who was prisoner here from 1249 until his death in 1272.

Town hall
Palazzo d'Accursio is a palace once formulated to house major administrative offices of the city of , region of , . It is located on the Piazza Maggiore, and is the city's Town Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Lazzaro di Savena and San Nicolò di Villola.

Town
Photo: Sedlex, Public domain.
is an Italian comune of some 32,000 inhabitants in the , . is situated 6 km southeast of Bologna.

Village
is a Roman Catholic parish church located on via Cadriano #11 in , Italy.

Bologna

Latitude
44.5066° or 44° 30′ 24″ north
Longitude
11.3504° or 11° 21′ 2″ east
Population
391,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
8FPHG942+J5
Geo­Names ID
6541998
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Bologna” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bolonja”
  • Arabic: “بولونيا”
  • Armenian: “Բոլոնիա”
  • Asturian: “Boloña”
  • Basque: “Bolonia”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Балоння”
  • Bulgarian: “Болоня”
  • Catalan: “Bolonya”
  • Cebuano: “Bolonia”
  • Chinese: “博洛尼亚”
  • Esperanto: “Bolonjo”
  • Extremaduran: “Boloña”
  • French: “Bologne”
  • Friulian: “Bologne”
  • Galician: “Boloña”
  • Georgian: “ბოლონია”
  • Greek: “Μπολόνια”
  • Hebrew: “בולוניה”
  • Interlingua: “Bolonia”
  • Italian: “Bologna”
  • Italian: “Comune di Bologna”
  • Japanese: “ボローニャ”
  • Komi: “Болонья”
  • Korean: “볼로냐”
  • Latin: “Bononia”
  • Latin: “Felsina” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Boloņa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolonija”
  • Maltese: “Bolonja”
  • Marathi: “बोलोन्या”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bolonha”
  • Ossetian: “Болонья”
  • Persian: “بولونیا”
  • Piemontese: “Bològna”
  • Polish: “Bolonia”
  • Portuguese: “Bolonha”
  • Russian: “Болонья”
  • Serbian: “Болоња”
  • Sicilian: “Bulogna”
  • Spanish: “Bolonia”
  • Thai: “โบโลญญา”
  • Ukrainian: “Болонья”
  • Urdu: “بلونیا”
  • Venetian: “Bułogna”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولونا”

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