Different perspectives of Bologna (IT) - folklore and traditions

This time I managed go to Bologna just for pleasure and not for work like I have been doing in the last years.

I am going to Bologna quite often as I am part of the Scientific Committee of Decentra, a leading academy in Italy for cryptocurrencies and DLT. The same group with whom I organized the congress on Circular Economy and Sustainability back in May.

Luckily, in the last days I could merge a pleasure sightseeing of Bologna after a productive and operative appointment.

I know Bologna quite well so I chose to focus my pictures on some unusual events and particular scenarios that caught my attention 🧐

Of course, the first one could not be anything else than the “Asinelli Towers”, one of the most important monuments in Bologna.

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Here a brand new shop of Sicilian slushes and ice-creams. If Naples is the Italian kingdom for pizza, Sicily is definitely the most famous area for pastries, slushes and ice-creams.

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Here a typical local sight-seeing train. That’s too much touristic and you will hardly ever see me on one of them 😉

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Here a Gospel choir. I love gospel songs sooooo much. Even when with Mary we were in Calabria in December we watched an amazing show from a Gospel choir.

Such singers, such an energy! Moreover here, there was a young kid rushing here and there spreading flyers to all the viewers. She was such in a rush that seemed to be running on the rhythm of the music :D !

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Here, a cannabis shop and a Lactose free shop. At the very beginning I thought that these two shops were a single one, with a bakery cooking products containing cannabis. Instead they are two different shops.

I was not sure if being disappointed that cannabis was not really inserted into baked products OR that a healthy bakery with no lactose does really exists. I guess that this second is better as cannabis (with no THC) has great nutritional properties but when cooked, most of them are lost.

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A traditional pork with the “Mortadella sandwich” is a quite typical image in the Emilian area and Bologna especially. Mortadella is a specific salami made of pork (a quite fat area of the pork) and it’s so famous that Mortadella is often called “Bologna”.

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A street musician, playing great chilling songs. I got quite hypnotized from him as I was used to play a Mexi-Fender Stratocaster while he was playing a Fender Telecaster with some greatly pushed-up pick-ups.

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And here ending my trip, I went back to the "Asinelli tower" in a view from the main road, heading back to train station.
Bologna is called the “Italian Amsterdam” as it’s much multi-cultural, there is a big dynamism AND many inspired people (artists, musicians and so on) go there to feel more free to perform and express themselves.

From that perspective, I would say that Bologna in one of the most progressive city in Italy, under a mentality perspective with an open-minded resonance and freedom feelings.

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