Comments on: Travelling in Italy РTips, Tricks, & Places Off the Beaten Path http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/12/09/travelling-in-italy-tips-tricks-places-off-the-beaten-path/ Deirdr̩ Straughan on Italy, India, the Internet, and the world Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Max http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/12/09/travelling-in-italy-tips-tricks-places-off-the-beaten-path/comment-page-1/#comment-7810 Max Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:04:23 +0000 http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/12/09/travelling-in-italy-tips-tricks-places-off-the-beaten-path/#comment-7810 I stumled upon your blog and I was really delighted by the way it is designed and by the way you write. Also, for some reason, I am always curious about how foreigners see the practicalities of living in Italy (and about what they think about our country). Perhaps because at times I feel a little foreigner in my own country as well. that said, I want to contribute to the places off the beaten path category: - Bologna as a whole. Maybe there is no single outstanding piece of beauty (with the exception of piazza maggiore, maybe) but I think this town is wonderful. Pasolini considered it Italy's most beautiful city (apart from Venice). More in detail, B. has got a huge old town, the longest amount of porches (portici), two (not twin) towers, an old ghetto and hebrew museum, a wonderful cathedral and main square, a good egyptian museum, a church-with-seven-churches-one-inside-the-other and.... (and I don't even come from Bologna, but from Modena, its arch-rival!) I stumled upon your blog and I was really delighted by the way it is designed and by the way you write. Also, for some reason, I am always curious about how foreigners see the practicalities of living in Italy (and about what they think about our country). Perhaps because at times I feel a little foreigner in my own country as well.
that said, I want to contribute to the places off the beaten path category:

- Bologna as a whole. Maybe there is no single outstanding piece of beauty (with the exception of piazza maggiore, maybe) but I think this town is wonderful. Pasolini considered it Italy’s most beautiful city (apart from Venice). More in detail, B. has got a huge old town, the longest amount of porches (portici), two (not twin) towers, an old ghetto and hebrew museum, a wonderful cathedral and main square, a good egyptian museum, a church-with-seven-churches-one-inside-the-other and….

(and I don’t even come from Bologna, but from Modena, its arch-rival!)

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