Confession – I love Italy. I learned Italian at school and university, so I can more than hold a conversation, although I am nowhere near fluent and my husband has started to learn a few phrases ...

Where on earth? Bologna is in Northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region, close to Florence and Venice. Nicknamed la rossa, referring both to its fiery political history and the brightly coloured ...

It’s the afternoon rush hour traffic and I’m in a taxi cruising towards the city center of Bologna, with buses, cars, and motorcycles zooming along all sides of us. I’ve been awake for 36 hours when I ...

Ms. Sala is an Italian journalist. She wrote from Bologna, Italy. A little more than 10 years ago, Bologna, my Italian hometown, was not really considered a big tourist destination. Group tours would ...