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
The is an opera house in , Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season.

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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bologna”. Photo: Nebbius, CC BY-SA 4.0.