Tourist attraction
Portico del Pavaglione
Stone-columned Renaissance portico of thirty arches linking a market square to the old university.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Portico del Pavaglione in Bologna starts next door, at Palazzo dei Banchi, the sixteenth-century stone screen the architect Vignola designed for Piazza Maggiore. It asks why so many of its arches don't lead anywhere at all. From there it follows the real portico back through Bologna's old silk-market lanes toward the Archiginnasio, once the university's grand entrance.
This audio guide was created using AI.