the Travel Enthusiast
- 23 MarAdam in Amazing Places | NO COMMENTS
The Venerable Bologna
The heightened towers and arcades of proud families expands to kilometers.
Bologna la Rossa (the red one) gives you thoughts about the tiles of roofs, the colors of the houses, but also about the fact that the city was lead by the left wing policy for 50 years. It is also nicknamed la dotta (the scholar one) by those who are impressed by its education institute, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1088. Others, dreaming about local cold meats like “la Mortadella” for example pork roasts, truffles, and the most important, the bolognese sauce.
- 07 Sep
The largest churches in the world that you have to see
It doesn’t matter whether you’re religious or not, churches are one of the first things that tourists visit when they arrive at a new place. It might sound cheesy and cliche, but fact is that churches are usually some of the most impressive monuments that you can find in a city.
They combine history, art and architecture into one single spectacular building, and they bigger and older they are, the better. You can usually find some very interesting (and most of the time, beautiful) paintings, stained glass windows, carvings and statues in churches, not to mention the potential graves of important historical figures. So here’s a list of the largest churches in the world, for the traditionalist toursit hiding inside all of us. …