Travels in Italy, The Colonnades and Porticoes of Bologna

Posted on November 12, 2018 | 17 Comments

In Bologna there are almost thirty miles of colonnades and porticoes, that is about thirty miles of mindless graffiti…

Click on an image to scroll through the gallery…

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Colonnades 04

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17 responses to “Travels in Italy, The Colonnades and Porticoes of Bologna”

restlessjo | November 12, 2018 at 9:31 am | Reply

Incredible. 🙂 🙂

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BeckyB | November 12, 2018 at 9:54 am | Reply

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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- Andrew Petcher | November 12, 2018 at 9:57 am | Reply
  
  They are a great feature of the city despite the graffiti!
  
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ksbeth | November 12, 2018 at 10:57 am | Reply

how beautiful. i picture all kinds of secret meetings, mischief, and trysts going on within these spaces

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- Andrew Petcher | November 12, 2018 at 11:24 am | Reply
  
  If walls could only talk!
  
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derrickjknight | November 12, 2018 at 11:51 am | Reply

Excellent gallery

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- Andrew Petcher | November 12, 2018 at 12:15 pm | Reply
  
  Thanks Derrick
  
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dawnrstarr | November 12, 2018 at 8:44 pm | Reply

Love Bologna, especially for the porticos and food

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- Andrew Petcher | November 12, 2018 at 9:37 pm | Reply
  
  Not my favourite place but I enjoyed it there!
  
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Jane Sadek | November 13, 2018 at 5:06 pm | Reply

Beautiful and heartbreaking!

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- Andrew Petcher | November 13, 2018 at 6:00 pm | Reply
  
  Such is life Jane, some people create beautiful things and others have the urge to spoil them!
  
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quercuscommunity | December 1, 2018 at 11:06 pm | Reply

That’s a lot of colonnades!

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- Andrew Petcher | December 2, 2018 at 6:38 am | Reply
  
  They are really quite fond of them in Bologna.
  
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  - quercuscommunity | December 2, 2018 at 7:25 am |
    
    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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  - Andrew Petcher | December 2, 2018 at 8:14 am |
    
    Apparently it started as a way of extending properties without losing road/pavement space below.
    
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  - quercuscommunity | December 2, 2018 at 3:45 pm |
    
    Interesting piece of history.
    
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