{"id":4356,"date":"2003-10-16T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:04:23","slug":"bologna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2003\/10\/16\/bologna\/","title":{"rendered":"Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We awoke, showered, got breakfast and a cab to the center of Bologna. As we walked, we found Aviva's street!<\/p>\n

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That describes Aviva pretty well<\/p><\/div>\n

We then walked to Museo Ebriaca<\/a>, which is located on the edge of the old Jewish Ghetto; this is a Jewish history museum that was funded and started by the non-Jewish community in Bologna to remember the holocaust. I also found the marker for where the synagogue in the ghetto was located until World War II.<\/p>\n

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The marker for the synagogue in the ghetto of Bologna<\/p><\/div>\n

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A torah in the collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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The ticket for Museo Ebriaca<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked back towards city center and ate lunch. On the way out we found a very cool canopy on a building.<\/p>\n

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Just a cool canopy I found<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked down to San Domenico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The facade of San Domenico<\/p><\/div>\n

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An old sarcophagus outside San Domenico<\/p><\/div>\n

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The decoration over the lentil of San Domenico<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, at Aviva's insistance, we hiked over to Corpus Domine<\/a> – this is a church with the body of a saint for the city propped in a chair behind glass (sorry, they didn't allow pictures).<\/p>\n

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The facade of Corpus Domine<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked over to Santo Steffano<\/a>, which is a combination of 5 churches connected by passageways. There are a couple of very old churches in the complex, dating back to around 1000AD.<\/p>\n

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The facade of San Steffano<\/p><\/div>\n

On the walk from San Steffano, we saw a cool building with heads on the facade – since I have a series of head photos in my cube, I've added one here.<\/p>\n

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We had a devilishly good time<\/p><\/div>\n

Since we had a big lunch, we ate dinner at Spizzico, which is an Italian fast food chain.<\/p>\n

We caught a cab back to our room and packed and relaxed. We also ate some pastries we bought on the walk towards Piazza Maggiore from Santo Steffano. I finished Angels & Demons<\/a>; the book is okay, but you can figure out what's going to happen before it happens at some points. I'll be bringing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)<\/a> with me for the flights. Slept fitfully.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We awoke, showered, got breakfast and a cab to the center of Bologna. As we walked, we found Aviva's street! We then walked to Museo Ebriaca, which is located on the edge of the old Jewish Ghetto; this is a Jewish history museum that was funded and started by the non-Jewish community in Bologna to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[790,821,822],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-italy-2003","tag-santo-steffano","tag-the-holocaust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t