Sunday 11 August 2013

4th August

Sunday in Bologna and the place was dead. The whole city seemed to be at church, in bed or on holiday.

We started the day's adventures with a visit to a museum about the history of music where the staff outnumbered us, the only visitors, by a ratio of 2 to 1. It was a very interesting place with a lot of old instruments and manuscripts which we examined for differences from today's form of writing out music.

On the way back to our hotel we discovered a fantastic gelateria with a very wide array of impressive flavours. It just happened to be near the foot of the towers so I ended up taking some further shots, without the sun's rays in the photo this time.


The cables really aren't ideal but they seem to be everywhere in the centre of a city that was all built hundreds of years ago - they seem to be preferable to putting up lampposts as the street lights are hung from them. This city has no objection to all of the centre-of-town stores selling expensive, modern brands but chooses to preserve this aspect of history...

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