Romanesque Sites in Italy - Romanesque Sites in Campania, Romanesque Sites in Emilia-Romagna, Romanesque Sites in Lazio (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Romanesque sites in Campania, Romanesque sites in Emilia-Romagna, Romanesque sites in Lazio, Romanesque sites in Lombardy, Romanesque sites in Piedmont, Romanesque sites in Tuscany, Romanesque sites in Umbria, Modena, Pisa, Ravenna, Perugia, Benevento, Lucca, Terni, Salerno, Viterbo, Piazza dei Miracoli, Bologna, Piacenza, Teramo, Terracina, Spoleto, Todi, Trevi, Umbria, Ivrea, Fiesole, Fondi, Narni, Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Norcia, Minturno, Republic of Pisa, Crema, Lombardy, Spello, Sutri, Fidenza, First Romanesque, Acquapendente, Bevagna, Casole d'Elsa, Cerreto di Spoleto, Canoscio, Massa Martana, Val d'Orcia, Pigge, Matigge, Manciano, Umbria, Viepri, Bovara, Basilica di Santa Giulia, San Pietro in Bovara, San Pietro in Valle, Sant'Emiliano in Congiuntoli, Santo Stefano in Manciano. Excerpt: Bologna (Italian pronunciation: , Bulaggna; pronounced in the Bolognese dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. It is the seventh largest city in terms of population and it is the heart of a metropolitan area (officially recognized by the Italian government as a metropolitan city) of about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The urban sprawl of Bologna - Modena, whose metropolises are adjoining, is continuously expanding. Home to the oldest university in the world, University of Bologna, founded in 1088, Bologna hosts numerous students who enrich the social and cultural life of the city. Famous for its towers and lengthy porticoes, it has a well-preserved historical downtown (one of the largest in Italy) thanks to a careful restoration and conservation policy which began at the end of the 1970s, on the heels of serious damage done by the ...