BOLOGNA E BORGO MEDIEVALE DI DOZZA

Emilia Romagna - Bologna - Borgo Medievale di Dozza (BO)

Tour
Map

At the moment BOLOGNA E BORGO MEDIEVALE DI DOZZA has no available offers

Nearby structures

Tuscany, Montecatini Terme (PT)

HOTEL AMBROSIANO
Tuscany, San Donato in Fronzano (FI)

HOTEL FATTORIA DEGLI USIGNOLI

Bologna

Home to the oldest university in the Western world, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, is a city with a rich cultural life and a legacy very interesting history. Important urban center first under the Etruscans, then under the Gauls, and finally under the Romans, Bologna was also in the Middle Ages outstanding center in Europe. European Capital of Culture in 2000, in 2006 was declared by UNESCO "Creative City of Music". Among the most important symbols of Bologna its characteristic arcades, or the covered walkways that link roads, towers and palaces, and that only in the center reach the total length of about 38 kilometri.Caratteristiche the city are also the towers, which offer tourists the opportunity to admire the wonderful views. Among the most important, Garisenda Tower and the Asinelli Tower, belonged to a group of a hundred medieval towers, of which there are currently only a dozen specimens. Among other Accursi or we remember Tower Clock, overlooking Piazza Maggiore and Azzoguidi Tower, part of the so-called 'triad of medieval skyscrapers' Bologna with Prendiparte Tower and Tower Galluzzi.Fra palaces and historic buildings c' you'll be spoiled for choice. Piazza Maggiore it has three: the first is the Palazzo del Podesta, built around 1200, which was the first seat of city government. A curiosity: for a special acoustic effect visitors can talk in a low voice from the opposite corners of the pillars supporting the tower. The second, Palazzo Re Enzo, was joined to the previous in 1244-46 and was home for about twenty-three years the so-called 'captive king', King Enzo of Sardinia, son of Frederick II. Finally Palazzo Comunale d'Accursio or was the residence of the Elders, the highest judiciary of the City Government and today it houses the Town Hall Bologna.Fra churches point out once again to Piazza Maggiore, the Gothic Basilica of San Petronio. Left unfinished in its original design, the Church valuable works such as the splendid 'Madonna Enthroned' by Lorenzo Costa. In Piazza Santo Stefano we will find the complex of the same name, also known as 'complex of the Seven Churches': a true city sanctuary. Not far away it is also worth visiting San Giacomo Maggiore, with wonderful Bentivoglio Chapel frescoes. To visit, finally, the National Art Gallery, which houses works by artists of the caliber of Giotto, Raphael, Carracci, and Archiginnasio of Bologna, seat of the ancient University.

The medieval village of Dozza

The medieval village of Dozza, one of the hundred "Most Beautiful Villages of Italy", located south of Bologna, 6 km from Imola and is situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the river valley and slopes gently toward the Sellustra via Emilia.A Dozza, art becomes urban landscape and decorate the walls of houses, streets and squares, flooded with light and different styles every corner and opening up to sudden bursts of colors. It is a veritable open-air museum, where you can admire over a hundred works by prestigious names in contemporary art. Inside the fortress they are preserved wall paintings and sketches of the works on the wall exposed in the Center for Studies and Documentation of the Wall Dipinto.Il best time to visit Dozza is definitely from May to September, to join the occasion of the visit to the village with the participation events such as the "Festa del Vino" and the "New Biennal Painted Wall" .Its historic center, the spindle shape characteristic, preserves the original building fabric of medieval style, and the mighty Sforza Castle, located at ' pinnacle of the country is in perfect harmony with the rest of the settlement, which follows the route of the ancient mura.Successivamente transformed the Mansion Malvezzi Camping, the majestic fortress was built by Caterina Sforza, who rebuilt it in the late fifteenth century on the ruins of previous Bologna fortresses 1250 ca. The Bolognese Campsites transformed from a purely military building in the palace at the end of '500. La Rocca then passed, by inheritance, the Malvezzi-Campeggi family who lived there until the 1960.Da visit the apartments on the main floor, the living room, the sitting rooms and bedrooms, the kitchen, the prisons, the rooms of torture, the walkways on the towers. On the second floor are the Research and Documentation Center of the Painted Wall and Mascellani Collection, while the underground house the Enoteca Regionale dell 'Emilia Romagna.Nel old town, which give color and atmosphere painted walls, is also worth a visit provost Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in the pool, built in the twelfth century. on the remains of an earlier Romanesque church - it contains a table of 1492 Marco Palmezzano - the Rivellino, inside which there is formed the eighteenth-century gateway to the village, and the Rocchetta of the fourteen century.

BOLOGNA E BORGO MEDIEVALE DI DOZZA

DLT Club

Bologna

The medieval village of Dozza