{"id":1914,"date":"2013-05-12T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:53:44","slug":"short-visits-to-bologna-and-prato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2013\/05\/short-visits-to-bologna-and-prato\/","title":{"rendered":"Short visits to Bologna and Prato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip to Italy (see blog entries about Milan and Tuscany) I had short stopovers in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prato\" target=\"_blank\">Prato<\/a> (Tuscany) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bologna\" target=\"_blank\">Bologna<\/a> (Emilia-Romagna). These are both ancient cities with a lot to see. In Prato, we had very little time. Prato is famous for its religious architecture, as well as South Italian and Chinese migrant communities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1916\" title=\"toskana13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana131.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana131-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to the lack of time we only saw a few buildings and the beautiful Bisenzio river, which was used for producing textile in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>The most exotic moment was when I realized that the river is full of beavers (?)!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\">\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;margin-bottom: 15px;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NFC_JPHfAhY?modestbranding=1&rel=0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen this animal before, let alone so close.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else looked like elsewhere in Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915\" title=\"toskana12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana121.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/toskana121-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bologna is more interesting &#8211; it is not only an ancient city, but also home to Italy&#8217;s most famous university. We expected to explore it a little, but when we arrived to our Couchsurfing hosts, it was already late. We had a small meal and started chatting &#8211; about life and travel in Italy, studies and work, sustainable lifestyle, world politics and so on. We chatted until we realized it was 4 am. When we woke up (around 11), our host made us coffee and we continued the conversation, totally forgetting our plans to go sightseeing. We talked until it was 3 pm, and had only a couple of hours before we moved on to our next destination. It was getting dark, so I didn&#8217;t take photos that would be worth showing on the blog. I&#8217;m borrowing one from Wiki Commons:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bc\/Bologna-SanPetronioPiazzaMaggiore1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bologna\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bc\/Bologna-SanPetronioPiazzaMaggiore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Wikimedia.org<\/p>\n<p>I will remember Bologna as a city where super-intellectual discussions happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip to Italy (see blog entries about Milan and Tuscany) I had short stopovers in Prato (Tuscany) and Bologna (Emilia-Romagna). These are both ancient cities with a lot to see. In Prato, we had very little time. Prato is famous for its religious architecture, as well as South Italian and Chinese migrant communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[179,248,298],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-impressions","tag-cities","tag-italy","tag-people","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}