Bologna

There are hundreds of stories to tell about the northern Italian city of Bologna. And that for centuries. The city owes this history to its favorable geographical location at the crossroads of medieval trade routes.

Nowadays, cities such as Milan, Florence, Verona and Parma can even be reached within an hour and you can also fly from the Netherlands to the oldest student city in the world with just over an hour.

For those who already know Venice and Rome and their crowds and tourists and are looking for a city that has only recently been discovered by tourists, the twenty medieval towers, the 40 kilometer long colonnades, and the tortellini and mortadella are a welcome change.