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Notable Porticoes in Bologna
Almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) of porticoes, or shaded arcades, line the streets of the Italian city of Bologna. Simultaneously functional and architecturally beautiful, the porticoes provide outdoor promenades that are protected from sun and rain. Here’s where to find the best examples throughout the center of Bologna.
Piazza Maggiore
Dating back to the 13th century, this square has porticoes on three sides. Each side has its own architecture and character, reflecting the era in which they were built and the style of the designer.
Via dell'Indipendenza
Dating back to 1888, the porticoes along Via dell'Indipendenza are relatively new compared to other historic walkways in Bologna. Connecting Piazza Maggiore to the railway station, this road is lined with shops, and the wide walkway offers shelter from the weather.
San Luca
Stretching almost 13,125 feet (4,000 meters), the porticoes along Via San Luca and Via Saragozza were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. This covered walkway was considered a religious route and leads to a church, the Madonna of San Luca (Santuario Madonna di San Luca).
Via Marsala
Some of the oldest examples of this architecture style can be seen in the wooden porticoes of Via Marsala, dating back to the 13th century.
Via Zamboni
You can see porticoes from different eras in history along Via Zamboni, once the home of many noble residences now belonging to offices and universities. A range of architectural styles and intricate details are displayed here.
Piazza Santo Stefano
Two sides of this square are lined by porticoes dating back to different moments in Bologna’s history from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Craftsmanship on the columns and arches is especially noteworthy.
Bologna Food Experience: Factory Visits with Gourmet Lunch and Wine Tasting
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Follow your senses on a full-day culinary tour of Bologna’s famous food region. Visit local factories and family-run producers for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of products enjoyed around the world, including Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, Modena balsamic vinegar, prosciutto, and wine. Enjoy samples of fresh, hand-crafted products along the way and indulge in breakfast and multi-course Italian lunch with wine pairings. It’s a fantastic way to immerse yourself in the sights, smells, and tastes of Emilia-Romagna!
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Ferrari Lamborghini Pagani Factory and Museum Day Tour from Bologna
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Motor Valley is home to some of Italy’s most iconic car manufacturers, but the factories and museums are hard to get between. Save hours with this tour that takes you to three of the top destinations for sports car enthusiasts in Emilia Romagna: the Ferrari Museum; Lamborghini Museum and Factory; and Pagani Museum and Factory. Stop to taste the area’s famed traditional balsamic vinegar and relax over lunch.
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Bologna Food Tour from a local perspective
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Bologna is home to one of the best cuisines in Italy—where favorites like tortellini and were created—but it can be a challenge for travelers to find down-to-earth meals in the restaurant circuit. With this tour, a guide takes you to at least half a dozen restaurants and cafes serving dishes away from the tourists. It’s an immersion in local gastronomy with pasta, salumi, pizza, wine, and gelato.
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$112.15
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The 10 Tastings of Bologna With Locals: Private Food Tour
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Eat your way through Bologna's culinary scene on a private food tour. Go on a delicious journey as you try 10 of the best food items beloved by the locals: from savory to sweet and local drinks; this tour will leave every foodie satisfied!
Enjoy tastings typical of the local cuisine and hand-picked by a local guide passionate about food like Tortellini fritti and Formaggio Bianco Bologna. But that's not it! This tour is more than just food; it's a cultural experience! In between food stops, you'll also find city highlights making this experience a well-rounded tour that will satisfy every foodie.
Withlocals The 10 Tastings Private Food Tour™ is one of Withlocals' signature tours available in major cities worldwide. We work with passionate local guides who earn a fair fee. We support local economies by only offering local produce and prevent over-tourism with only small non-intrusive groups. Our tours are carbon-neutral and away from the standard tourist routes.
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$97.98
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$97.98
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Antagonist Motor Tour: LamboFactory,Ferrari Museum,Pagani Factory&Museum,Lunch
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Discover the three best Italian Supercars' producers. In Pagani you will see with your eyes how a supercar is built, through the production lines of the factory, as well as the hands of the workers that realize a Pagani car!
The new Lambo Museum is an amazing journey through the history, prototypes, special models of the Bull. The factory tour is an exciting tour into the production buildings and the production lines!
The Pagani Automobili Museum is a journey back to the beginning of Mr. Horacio Pagani, but you will see also the history of the Zonda and all its models, and of course the new amazing Huayra.
The Ferrari Museum is an unique trip into the Reds world. A typical italian lunch in a restaurant will be served during the tour. An english-speaking authorized assistant will accompany you for giving you informations and some secrets about the history of these cars! MIN. PEOPLE REQUESTED: 2
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$295.13
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$295.13
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Classic Bologna Food Tour
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Explore the culinary traditions of Bologna with this half-day food tour. Join a guide for a small-group walking tour and taste local specialties such as Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, Bolognese ragu, and mortadella. Begin the tour with a gourmet coffee, visit markets, and meet artisans at work to see how tortellini are made. Lunch at a historic osteria and a gelato tasting are included.
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$126.32
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$126.32
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2-Hour Bike Tour of Bologna
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A historic university city, culinary capital, and hub of architectural beauty, Bologna offers no shortage of attractions—and this zippy bike tour through town gives you the perfect opportunity to explore. Get up close and personal with the sights, from the bustling Piazza Maggiore to the Basilica of San Domenico and the modern Manifattura delle Arti district. As you go, hear about the city’s long history from your guide.
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$45.47
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Private Tour: Emilia-Romagna Hot Air Balloon Flight with Transport from Bologna
Soar up, up and away on a hot air balloon ride over the hills of Emilia-Romagna. The experience includes pickup and drop-off from Bologna, and the ride takes in sights of the region’s vineyard-speckled valleys and castles such as Castello Estense of Ferrara — a moated fortress with a drawbridge. Cap the experience with a glass of sparkling wine, and then relax on the journey back to Bologna. The hot air balloon holds up to five people in addition to the pilot.
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$2,313.22
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$2,313.22
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Food Tour: Parmesan, Balsamic, Red Wine, delicious lunch, transport
This tour is a fantastic opportunity to discover how some of our food specialities are produced. It's very interesting to learn all the phases of the parmesan cheese production. This tour finishes first with the visit to the storage, where hundreds of wheels sleeps and then with a tasting of 24months aged Parmigiano.
The Balsamic Vinegar is called also the Black Gold, because it needs a long and patience process of min. 12 years! A tasting of three different aged balsamic vinegar finishes this tour. You will continue to taste the Vinegar during the lunch: tortelloni home made, meat with potatoes, dessert… all with drops of Balsamic Vinegar.
The wine production of this area is very important: the visit starts with a guided tour inside the private Museum of Wine Traditions, and it continues into the cellars where bottles today stay and finishes with a tasting of 3 different wines.
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$259.72
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$259.72
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2-hour Walking Tour of Bologna
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With a large historic center that was built over millennia, Bologna is rich in important architectural and cultural monuments. Be sure to see all the highlights with this guided walking tour that touches on the Cathedral and Fountain of Neptune in Piazza Maggiore, the city’s two most famous medieval towers, and the university—the oldest in Europe—along with other important attractions.
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$29.91
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Classic Walking Tour Bologna
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Bologna is rich in cultural and culinary treasures. Experience both with this walking tour that touches on the city’s top sights before ending with a tasting of famed local specialties in a landmark gourmet shop. Explore highlights like Piazza Maggiore and the Two Towers and learn about their history and architecture from your guide. Cap off your tour with a stop in a local delicatessen to sample area wine and delicacies.
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$100.35
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$100.35
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Ferrari Vip Day Tour
Experience the thrill of a Ferrari day. You will be able to visit the Ferrari Museum and experience the history of the most famous brand in the world up close.
You will be able to try the official Ferrari simulator having fun alone or with friends and see who runs faster.
After a unique emotion. You will be able to test drive a real road Ferrari for 15 minutes and enjoy driving these fantastic racing cars.
Afterwards you will visit the Fiorano track and the Ferrari factory by minibus and you will be able to experience the places where the most beautiful cars in the world are designed.
And finally, a lunch in the historic Ferrari restaurant. The Cavallino restaurant now managed by Chef Bottura will make you taste the local specialties revisited by the most famous chef in the world.
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$702.42
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$702.42
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One Day Tour to Parma and Its Food Valley
This tour departing from Bologna will take you to visit the food Valley of Parma.
You can visit the production in all its phases of Parmigiano Reggiano and at the end taste the various maturations.
Then you will visit a historic producer of Parma Ham where you can discover how one of the most loved products of Italian cuisine is born.
Following a typical lunch in a local restaurant
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$369.27
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$369.27
$32.11 savings
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Guided Walking Tour of the Historic Center of Bologna
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Make the most of your day in Bologna with this guided walking tour that touches on the city’s A-list sights in just hours. Stroll beneath the UNESCO-listed porticoes to the main Piazza Maggiore to visit Basilica of San Petronio and Fountain of Neptune, gaze up at the twin medieval towers - a symbol of the city - and admire other significant city landmarks while you learn about Bologna's long history and famed cuisine.
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$53.12
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$53.12
Bologna traditional food tour - Do Eat Better Experience
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Bologna is known as a culinary hotspot, and this walking tour offers an excellent overview of the city’s food scene. Visit a historic center with local food boutiques in addition to several cafes. Sample the city’s culinary offerings including wines, cheese, pasta, espresso, and either gelato or cake depending on the season.
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$89.74
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$89.74
Live an afternoon as a chef!
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If you're off your adventures, the best way to experience local life is through its food! Cà Bianca Bio Agricultural Company is a peaceful and breath-taking place in the hills of Bologna.
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$121.09
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Bologna Food & Wine tour with a local Chef
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FOLLOW ME on IG @stayhungrystaybologna to see more pics and deals!
I'll show you my favorite places, I'll help you to discover the few true local spots in town, where a true bolognese goes shopping and eat.
The places who made our city famous, making what is now called the food capital of italy!
We meet in the heart of Bologna and we will walk around downtown making 6-7 stops
Oldest meat and fish market
Fruit market
Cheese and cured meat
Best sliced pizza
Typical and local sandwich place
Bakery with 150 years old recipe of cake!
Oldest Hosteria of Italy since 1465 for some wine taste
Best Gelato place of town
While we walk I'll be happy to share story and colture of the city, with some secrets just few local knows
I will send you PDF with all my favorite places also and I will help with reccomandations for future meals in local way
IN CASE OF RAIN OR WEEKEND BIG GROUPS WE WILL DO INSTEAD A FOOD TASTING SITTING IN LOCAL OSTERIA FROM 1888, VERY LOCAL VIBES YOU WILL LOVE IT !!
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$46.04
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Private cooking class at a local's home with lunch or dinner in Bologna
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Discover the secrets to Bolognese cuisine in a local’s home with this half-day private cooking class. Learn how to prepare fresh stuffed pasta including tortellini and tortelloni during this hands-on class. After the pasta workshop, relax over a meal to sample what you prepared alongside local red and white wines.
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$171.18
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A trip into the world of tastes of Appennines between Bologna and Florence
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The perfect tour to get deep into the several features of our mountain Appennines: history and art, natural beauties and moreover food, plenty of tastes and combinations, able to bring onto the table the climate, the nature, and the knowhow of this land.
More in details, it is a tasting tour to discover real authotenic flavors of Bologna's mountain area: you will see up close how Parmigiano Reggiano is made: the processing and maturing of this fine cheese, in a traditional mountain dairy.
You will take part in a basic cooking class, and will have lunch with the excellences of the territory included those produced by yourselves :)
at the same time, you will get acquaintance with the raw materials of this mountain territory.
Inside a 17th century you will observe the milling of several different kinds grains, you will smell the old scents of this preindustrial baking system, and you will taste these fresh delicacies.
Finally we will not miss the beauties of this land....
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$206.59
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$206.59
From Bologna: Wine Tasting and Vineyard Tour with the winemaker
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Italians have been producing wine for thousands of years. Get a unique insight into the wine-making experience on a visit to a family-owned winery. Explore the vineyards and cellars, then sample three of their finest wines paired with food on a terrace with views of wine country. Choose between morning and afternoon tours.
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$47.60
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$47.60
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Bologna Half Day Tour with a Local Guide: 100% Personalized & Private ★★★★★
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A great tour for first-time visitors, you’ll see the city with a local guide who has a passion for Bologna. The tour is completely customizable—visit a cafe for a snack based on your dietary preferences (or maybe some grappa), indulge in a bit of shopping, or check out a few art galleries. Learn about the city’s Medieval and Renaissance history and explore the plazas and old buildings downtown.
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$176.60
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$176.60
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Italian Wine Tasting on the Panoramic Terrace in Bologna
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Italian wines are famous all over the world. Having an Italian wine tasting with a panoramic view on an exclusive terrace will make this activity even more sensational. Seeing Bologna from above while tasting the best wines and listening to anecdotes and the history of wines and Bologna will make this activity an indelible memory.
You can then taste typical products and cured meats of the area.
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$129.86
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$129.86
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Stay Hungry Stay Bologna
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SUMMER 2021, I got vaccine so it will be a safe experience and Covid free..100% safety for my guests !!!
It's a lifetime experience to get in touch with local food and local tradiotion ..
you will be able to learn some secrets and go back home and surprise your family and friends with a real dish of home made pasta
Bologna is the italian capital of homemade pasta, I will show you some tricks I've learned from my grandmother and some unique ways to fill the pasta
get ready for a stunning day in the kitchen ... easy and fun!
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$82.64
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$82.64
Bologna Traditional Home Cooking Class with Lunch or Dinner
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Learn to cook with an experienced chef in Bologna — Italy’s famous food capital. Roll up your sleeves and learn authentic recipes from the Emilia-Romagna region, including an appetizer, homemade pasta dough and fillings, a savory second course, and a delicious dessert. When the cooking’s done, sit down to enjoy your well-earned feast with new friends and a glass of wine.
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$69.65
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$69.65