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Things to do in Bologna
12 places · 10 h 30 min of sightseeing · 2 days
How many days do you need in Bologna?
12 places add up to 10 h 30 min of pure sightseeing. At 6 hours a day, not counting walking and meals, that's 2 days.
The best-known places in order, as long as they fit into 6 hours of sightseeing a day. Sightseeing only, without walking and meals — build the day-by-day plan with opening hours and the route in a RouteMarket notebook.
1 day — 5 h 45 min
- Garisenda Tower (15 min)
- Asinelli Tower (1 h)
- Santo Stefano Complex (1 h)
- Portico of San Luca (1 h 30 min)
- Basilica of San Petronio (45 min)
- Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca (1 h)
- Fountain of Neptune (15 min)
See full 1 day day-by-day itinerary →
2 days — 10 h 30 min
- Garisenda Tower (15 min)
- Asinelli Tower (1 h)
- Santo Stefano Complex (1 h)
- Portico of San Luca (1 h 30 min)
- Basilica of San Petronio (45 min)
- Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca (1 h)
- Archiginnasio of Bologna (1 h)
- Fountain of Neptune (15 min)
- Piazza Maggiore (45 min)
- Torre dell'Orologio (45 min)
- San Michele in Bosco Complex (1 h)
- MAST (1 h 15 min)
See full 2 days day-by-day itinerary →
3 days — 10 h 30 min
- Garisenda Tower (15 min)
- Asinelli Tower (1 h)
- Santo Stefano Complex (1 h)
- Portico of San Luca (1 h 30 min)
- Basilica of San Petronio (45 min)
- Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca (1 h)
- Archiginnasio of Bologna (1 h)
- Fountain of Neptune (15 min)
- Piazza Maggiore (45 min)
- Torre dell'Orologio (45 min)
- San Michele in Bosco Complex (1 h)
- MAST (1 h 15 min)
See full 3 days day-by-day itinerary →
Top sights
Ordered by how well known each place is. Data: OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
- Garisenda Tower — 15 min visit
- Asinelli Tower — 1 h visit
- Santo Stefano Complex — 1 h visit
- Portico of San Luca — 1 h 30 min visit
- Basilica of San Petronio — 45 min visit
- Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca — 1 h visit
- Archiginnasio of Bologna — 1 h visit
- Fountain of Neptune — 15 min visit
- Piazza Maggiore — 45 min visit
- Torre dell'Orologio — 45 min visit
- San Michele in Bosco Complex — 1 h visit
- MAST — 1 h 15 min visit
- Palazzo dei Banchi — 30 min visit
- Bologna Canals and Canale di Reno — 45 min visit
- Palazzo d'Accursio — 1 h visit
- MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna — 1 h 30 min visit
- Basilica of San Domenico — 50 min visit
- Ducati Museum — 1 h 30 min visit
- Biblioteca Salaborsa — 45 min visit
- Corte Isolani — 25 min visit
- Palazzo Pepoli - Museum of the History of Bologna — 1 h 15 min visit
- Via del Pratello — 1 h visit
- Palazzo della Mercanzia — 35 min visit
- Bagni di Mario (Conserva di Valverde) — 50 min visit
Where to eat
- Trattoria Anna Maria
- Paolo Atti & Figli
- Cremeria Santo Stefano
- Cremeria Funivia
- Trattoria da Me
- All'Osteria Bottega
- Ristorante Diana
- Mercato di Mezzo
What to see in Bologna in one day?
Garisenda Tower, Asinelli Tower, Santo Stefano Complex, Portico of San Luca, Basilica of San Petronio, Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Fountain of Neptune.
Ready-made notebooks for this city
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- Bologna as a couple — 2 days
- Bologna with kids — 2 days
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- Bologna solo and photography — 2 days
- Bologna with friends — 2 days
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