In Bologna there are almost thirty miles of colonnades and porticoes, that is about thirty miles of mindless graffiti…
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Incredible. 🙂 🙂
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Oh I was so excited when I saw your title but then I saw the graffiti. What a shame as the colonnades are stunning.
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They are a great feature of the city despite the graffiti!
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how beautiful. i picture all kinds of secret meetings, mischief, and trysts going on within these spaces
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If walls could only talk!
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Excellent gallery
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Thanks Derrick
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Love Bologna, especially for the porticos and food
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Not my favourite place but I enjoyed it there!
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Beautiful and heartbreaking!
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Such is life Jane, some people create beautiful things and others have the urge to spoil them!
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That’s a lot of colonnades!
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They are really quite fond of them in Bologna.
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In Manchester I can understand the need for shelter, but I suppose they needed the shade. Nice of them to provide a subject for bloggers so many centuries later.
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Apparently it started as a way of extending properties without losing road/pavement space below.
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Interesting piece of history.
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