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Under the streets of Bologna

Today I'll tell you a short walk, a couple of hours in all, along a waterway unknown to most people who use it every day and go through.

From wikipedia

" Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ( Latin Marcus Vitruvius Pollio c. 80 / 70 BC - 23 BC ) was a architect and writer Roman . former officer Superintendent of war machines in Giulio Cesare and architect-engineer under Augusto (he had designed and built the basilica of Fano ), is the only Latin writer of architecture whose work has come down to us. "

Vitruvius is also the name of an association of Bologna, which has among its purposes a purpose for me extraordinary: to link physical activity and culture. This goal was attained in full! A walk of about seven hundred meters and went back seven hundred meters, eight meters deep in the heart of bologna oldest, Etruscan and Roman then, but it is not only a walking path, is also a play and a history lesson.

I left that area of \u200b\u200btown called Hell just entered the Jewish ghetto. A group of talented actors and musicians, explains the true origins of the Divine Comedy (in Bologna is hilarious!) And then through a large trap door go down underground. Here I find myself in a very long tunnel at one side of which flows a stream, the Aposa.

go up the river looking at the diversity of architectural styles used at various times to close the stream, from the Roman bridge, pointed arch, the barrel vault.

As I walk the actors recite reconstructing the ages that meet, and the guide tells of old challenges with the Venetians, the industrial revolution in Bologna and the leading role of the Aposa. It tells how Bologna had its port and through locks and canals were reached by boat from here to the Po and the sea, Venice, and then the whole world.

At the end of the road date back to an iron staircase and comes out in Piazza Minghetti and following musicians Going back, this time on the surface, the path forward, as people Outdoor seating in bars and restaurants of downtown looks surprised this secular procession through the streets of the city.