NE Italy
Emilia-Romagna
Metropolitan City of Bologna

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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Imola.

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is a town within Bologna Metropolitan District, best known for its motor-racing circuit, which hosts Formula One and other big events.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadio Renato Dall’Ara and Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Stadium
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Stadio Renato Dall'Ara is a multi-purpose stadium in Bologna, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and the home of Bologna FC. The stadium was designed by Giulio Ulisse Arata and inaugurated in 1927 as Stadio Littoriale.

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

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is a palace located on Piazza del Nettuno, 1 in the historic center of Bologna, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Casalecchio di Reno and San Lazzaro di Savena.

Town
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is a town and comune in the , , northern .

Town
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is an Italian comune of some 32,000 inhabitants in the , .

Village
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is a village.

Bologna

Latitude
44.4938° or 44° 29′ 38″ north
Longitude
11.3426° or 11° 20′ 34″ east
Population
387,000
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
IATA airport code
BLQ
United Nations Location Codes
IT BLQ and IT BQY
Open location code
8FPHF8VV+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 667350399
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3181928
Wiki­data ID
Q1891
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Bologna” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bologna”
  • Albanian: “Bolonja”
  • Amharic: “ቦሎኛ”
  • Arabic: “بولونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Bolonia”
  • Aragonese: “Bolonya”
  • Armenian: “Բոլոնիա”
  • Asturian: “Boloña”
  • Aymara: “Bologna”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boloniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bolonya”
  • Balinese: “Bologna”
  • Basque: “Bologna”
  • Basque: “Bolonia”
  • Belarusian: “Балёньня”
  • Belarusian: “Балёнья”
  • Belarusian: “Балоння”
  • Belarusian: “Балонья”
  • Bengali: “বোলোগনা”
  • Bengali: “বোলোনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Bologna”
  • Breton: “Bologna”
  • Breton: “Bolun”
  • Bulgarian: “Болоня”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုလိုညာ”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုလိုညာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bolonya”
  • Cebuano: “Bologne”
  • Cebuano: “Bolonia”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆلۆنیا، ئیتالیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆلۆنیا”
  • Chechen: “Болонья”
  • Cherokee: “Bologna”
  • Chinese: “Bologna”
  • Chinese: “博洛尼亚”
  • Chinese: “博洛尼亞”
  • Chinese: “波隆尼亞”
  • Chinese: “波隆納”
  • Chinese: “波隆那”
  • Chuvash: “Болонья”
  • Corsican: “Bologna”
  • Corsican: “Bulogna”
  • Croatian: “Bologna”
  • Czech: “Bologna”
  • Czech: “Boloň”
  • Czech: “Boloňa”
  • Danish: “Bologna”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bolonya”
  • Dutch: “Bologna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولونيا”
  • Esperanto: “Bolonjo”
  • Estonian: “Bologna”
  • Extremaduran: “Boloña”
  • Finnish: “Bologna”
  • French: “Bologna”
  • French: “Bologne”
  • Friulian: “Bologne”
  • Galician: “Boloña”
  • Georgian: “ბოლონია”
  • German: “Bologna”
  • Greek: “Μπολόνια”
  • Greek: “Μπολώνια”
  • Guarani: “Mbolóña”
  • Gujarati: “બોલોગ્ના”
  • Hebrew: “בולוניה”
  • Hindi: “बोलोना”
  • Hungarian: “Bologna”
  • Icelandic: “Bologna”
  • Ido: “Bologna”
  • Inari Sami: “Bologna”
  • Indonesian: “Bologna”
  • Interlingua: “Bologna”
  • Interlingua: “Bolonia”
  • Interlingue: “Bologna”
  • Irish: “Bologna”
  • Italian: “Bologna”
  • Italian: “La dotta”
  • Japanese: “ボローニャ”
  • Javanese: “Bologna”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಲೋಗ್ನ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಲೋನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Болонья”
  • Kirghiz: “Болонья шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Болонья”
  • Komi: “Болонья”
  • Korean: “볼로냐”
  • Kotava: “Bologna”
  • Kurdish: “Bolonya”
  • Ladin: “Bologna”
  • Latin: “Bononia”
  • Latvian: “Boloņa”
  • Ligurian: “Bologna”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolonija”
  • Lombard: “Bologna”
  • Low German: “Bologna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bologna”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bologna”
  • Macedonian: “Болоња”
  • Malagasy: “Bologna”
  • Malay: “Bologna”
  • Maltese: “Bolonja”
  • Manx: “Bologna”
  • Maori: “Poronga”
  • Marathi: “बोलोन्या”
  • Mazanderani: “بولونیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bologna”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოლონია”
  • Mongolian: “Болонья”
  • Neapolitan: “Bologna”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bologna”
  • Northern Sami: “Bologna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bologna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bologna”
  • Norwegian: “Bologna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bolonha”
  • Ossetian: “Болонья”
  • Papiamento: “Bologna”
  • Persian: “بولونیا”
  • Picard: “Bolonne”
  • Piemontese: “Bològna”
  • Polish: “Bolonia”
  • Portuguese: “Bolonha”
  • Quechua: “Bologna”
  • Romagnol: “Bulåggna”
  • Romanian: “Bologna”
  • Russian: “Болонья”
  • Rusyn: “Болонья”
  • Sanskrit: “बोलोन्या”
  • Sardinian: “Bologna”
  • Scots: “Bologna”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bologna”
  • Serbian: “Bologna”
  • Serbian: “Болоња”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bologna”
  • Sicilian: “Bulogna”
  • Silesian: “Bologna”
  • Sinhala: “බොලොග්නා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bologna”
  • Slovak: “Bologna”
  • Slovak: “Boloňa”
  • Slovenian: “Bologna”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بولونیا”
  • Spanish: “Bolonia, Emilia-Romagna”
  • Spanish: “Bolonia, Italia”
  • Spanish: “Bolonia”
  • Swahili: “Bologna”
  • Swedish: “Bologna”
  • Swiss German: “Bologna”
  • Tagalog: “Bologna”
  • Tagalog: “Bolonia”
  • Tajik: “Болоня”
  • Talysh: “Bologna”
  • Talysh: “Bolonijə”
  • Tamil: “பொலோஞா”
  • Tamil: “போலோக்னா”
  • Tatar: “Болонья”
  • Telugu: “బోలోన్య”
  • Thai: “โบโลญญา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bologna”
  • Turkish: “Bologna”
  • Turkish: “Bolonya”
  • Turkmen: “Bologna”
  • Twi: “Bologna”
  • Ukrainian: “Болонья”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bologna”
  • Urdu: “بلونیا”
  • Urdu: “بولونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Bolonya”
  • Venetian: “Bołogna”
  • Venetian: “Bułogna”
  • Vietnamese: “Bologna”
  • Vlaams: “Bologna”
  • Volapük: “Bologna”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bologna”
  • Welsh: “Bologna”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոլոնիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Bologna”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولونا”
  • Wu Chinese: “博洛尼亚”
  • Xhosa: “Bologna”
  • Yue Chinese: “博洛尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Bologna”
  • “Bologna”
  • “Bologne”
  • “Bulåggna”

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