{"id":40796,"date":"2019-04-04T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/porticoes-of-bologna\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:30:43","slug":"porticoes-of-bologna-unesco-world-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/en\/porticoes-of-bologna-unesco-world-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bologna, the UNESCO City of Porticoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no other city in the world with more porticoes than Bologna<\/strong>: all together, and only taking into consideration the city centre, they are more than 42 km long, reaching 62 km if counting the ones outside the gates.<\/p>\n

It’s an international record that the city has been holding with pride for more than 900 years and that today, together with its towers<\/a> and its tasty tortellini<\/a> – are the major elements of the identity of this city in the heart of Emilia-Romagna.<\/p>\n

The porticoes are truly an inescapable feature of the city’s urban fabric, so much so that in 2021 the UNESCO committee officially declared Bologna the “City of Porticoes”<\/em> with its nomination as World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n

The UNESCO list includes Piazza Santo Stefano, the porticoes of Via Zamboni, those of Strada Maggiore, the MamBo porticoed building, the porticos of Piazza Cavour and Via Farini, immediately followed by the archway of San Luca, the Pavaglione porticoes and Piazza Maggiore, the porticoed street of Santa Caterina, the porticoed building in the Barca district, the Certosa portico, the Baraccano porticoes and the Galliera porticoed street.<\/p>\n