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 Car Hire & Driving in Bologna, ItalyWelcome to Bologna Car Hire, Italy; available at Bologna Airport.Emilia-Romagna region Central Italy Car HireEmilia-Romagna is the heartland of central Italy which you can explore in your hire car, a broad corridor through the bills and plains of the Po Valley that marks the watershed between the cold north of the Alps and the hot Mediterranean south. With its rich agricultural land, historical cities and thriving industry; Emilia-Romagna is one of the most prosperous areas. Bologna Car HireThe historic city centre of Bologna is a handsome ensemble of brick buildings and charming porticoed streets that you can explore in your hire car. Medieval places are clustered around the two central squares of Bologna: Piazza Maggiore and Piazza del Nettuno, flanked to the south by the churches of San Petronio and San Domenico, which you can you visit in your hire car. The university of Bologna is the oldest in Europe and the venerable Archiginnasio was its first official building. Further a field in your hire car you will find that the skyline is etched by the Asinelli and Garisenda towers of Bologna, and by the campanile of Santo Stefano. You will find Bologna’s San Glacomo Maggiore on Piazza Rossini in your hire car. This Romanesque-Gothic church, begun in 1267 but altered substantially since, is visited mainly for the Cappella Bentivoglio, a superb family chapel founded by Annibale Bentivoglio in 1445. In fact monuments to Bologna’s rich cultural heritage are scattered across the city, from the leaning towers and the church of San Petronio in the old centre to the Pinacoteca Nazionale in the university district of Bologna. You can visit the San Petronio in your hire car, which you’ll find on Piazza Maggiore. Dedicated to the city’s 5th century bishop, this church ranks among the greateat of Italy’s brick-built medieval buildings. You can also visit the Pinacoteca Nazionale while in Bologna in your hire car which you will find in Via della Belle Arti. This is Bologna’s principal art gallery, and one of northern Italy’s most important collections. Another place you can visit in Bologna is the Abbazia di Santo Stefano, which you will find on Via Santo Stefano in your hire car. Santo Stefano is a curious collection of four medieveal churches jumbled together under one roof. Also the Museo di Anatomia Umana Normale is worth a visit while in Bologna, which you will find on Palazzo Poggi in your hire car. Although well of the standard tourist itineraries, the Museum of Human Anatomy is one of the more memorable of Bologna’s smaller museums. The collection includes occasionally gruesome visceral waxworks and numerous models of organs, limbs and flayed bodies, which were used as medical teaching aids until the 19th century. Finally, the San Domenico, which you will find on Piazza di San Domencio in your hire car in Bologna. This can lay claim to being the most important of Italy’s many Dominican churches. Begun in 1221, after St Dominic’s death, it was built to house the body of the saint, who died here and lies buried in a tomb known as the Arca di San Domenico. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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