Bolognese Porticoes and Urban Design
Bologna · Italy
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Follow a focused walk through Bologna's porticoes and urban design, from Portici di Bologna to the city gate at Porta Maggiore. At each stop, look at how a portico shapes movement, frames public space, or marks a transition between sheltered and open streets. The sequence is worth taking because it lets you compare different examples rather than treating Bologna's arcades as one uniform feature.
The walk
Porticoes of Bologna
Portici di Bologna is an attraction in Bologna, Italy.
Portico del Pavaglione
Portico del Pavaglione is a tourist attraction in Bologna, Italy.
Portico ex Ospedale dei Bastardini
A museum in Bologna, Italy.
Portico del Baraccano
Portico del Baraccano is an attraction in Bologna, Italy.
Porta Maggiore
A medieval eastern gate nearly lost to demolition, then saved as a roofless brick shell.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
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Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
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A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.