Bologna Italy Photos

Planning for a vacation next summer and looking for a place to go? Why don’t you try to visit Bologna in Italy? Here a short description for those who want to travel in Bologna Italy.

Bologna - from the Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley (Pianura Padana in Italian) of northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River.

Home to the oldest university in the Western world, "University of Bologna", founded in 1088, Bologna is one of the most developed cities in Italy. Bologna often ranks as one of the top cities, in terms of quality of life in Italy: it was ranked 5th in 2006 and 12th in 2007, out of 103 Italian cities. This is due to its strong industrial tradition, its wide range of highly-developed social services, and its physical location at the crossing-point of the most important highways and railways in the country.[source wikipedia]

Po River

Apennine Mountains

University of Bologna