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Fusing
haughty elegance with down-to-earth grit in one beautifully colonnaded
medieval grid, Bologna is a city of two intriguing halves. On one side
is a hard-working, hi-tech city located in the super-rich Po valley
where suave opera-goers waltz out of regal theatres and reconvene in
some of the nation's finest restaurants and trattorias. On the other is
a Bolshie, politically edgy city that hosts the world's oldest
university and is famous for its graffiti-embellished piazzas filled
with mildly inebriated students swapping Gothic fashion tips.
No small wonder Bologna has earned so many historical monikers. La Grassa (the fat one) celebrates a rich food legacy (ragù or bolognese sauce was first concocted here). La Dotta (the learned one) doffs a cap to the city university founded in 1088. La Rossa
(the red one) alludes to the ubiquity of the terracotta medieval
buildings adorned with miles of porticoes, as well as the city's
longstanding penchant for left-wing politics. All three names still
ring true. Bologna is the kind of city where you can be discussing
Chomsky with a leftie newspaper-seller one minute, and be eating like
an erstwhile Italian king in a fine restaurant the next.
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