Bologna Art & Culture Group

1.7 km guided tour on the transformations of the historic city center by Prof. Carlo Pelagalli, owner of the site Protected content managed in collaboration with the City Council. Buildings and streets have their own life, changing over time, sometimes disappearing on the urban landscape over the centuries for the most varied reasons: privatizations, urban projects, demolitions of entire blocks. Surprisingly enough, the traces of their existence are still clear.

Via Accuse
Piazza della Canapa
Voltone della Corda
Via delle Scudelle
Via Cavallara
Bagnolo dei Pignattari
Vicolo Santa Croce
Vicolo Arolari
Vicolo della Salara e delle Bollette
Vicolo La Trevisana
Vicolo delle Masegne
Condotto di Nosadella

08.50 meeting in front of the former Gelateria La Torinese Protected content , Piazza Re Enzo. 09.00 start of the tour.

10.45 stop Protected content at the Café Duca d’Amalfi, Piazza dei Celestini.

12.00 at the In Riga publishing house located in via Nosadella, screenings and and delivery of the book by Carlo Pelagalli to all participants.

9.50 am meeting at the Bomar Studio located in via Imola 13/A Bologna.
Bomar Studio (London Protected content a contemporary art lab founded by Marco Bolognesi who then moved to Bologna in Protected content a former factory from the Protected content into a cultural, productive and multidisciplinary space and strengthening relationships with the subjects and institutions of the art world (MACRO, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Collezione Farnesina, Collezione Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Casa Masaccio, Collection Musée de la Photographie, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Brussels). Bolognesi has widened his activity to the production of animated films. For his works of art and cinema, Marco Bolognesi has been recently awarded in New York, San Francisco, Toronto.
10.10 am start of the guided tour by Marco Bolognesi. The itinerary will reveal the relationship between figurative art, sculpture and the production process of cinematographic animation.
¡ Eleven o’ clock tea, coffee & cookies.
11.20 am transfer to the nearby Ustica Memorial Museum, set up thanks to the Association of the Relatives of the Victims of the Ustica Massacre to commemorate the tragic event when the 81 plane passengers lost their lives. The permanent installation by French artist Christian Boltanski surrounds the remains of the DC9 aircraft struck down on 27th June Protected content consists of 81 lights, mirrors and speakers whispering sentences as well as common and universal thoughts in memory of the victims.

09.15 am - departure from Bologna

10.00 am - Pagani factory tour: guided tour of the factory and the atelier. An exclusive collection of limited editions from the first sketches to the latest models of Zonda and Huayra. A journey through the history of the brand, which brings to light unpublished projects, never realized, but witnesses to a pioneering vision of the Argentine designer and entrepreneur. 11.30 am - transfer Funo di Argelato.

12.00 pm - Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum: the story of Ferruccio's life through his mechanical creations and a vast family photographic archive, from the first tractor with which he started his first company in Protected content , to all the most important models of the '50s, '60s and '70s. The legendary Miura SV stands out, as well as its most famous car productions, such as Fiat Barchetta Sport modified to run in the Protected content Miglia, the futuristic Countach, the Jarama models, the Urraco and the Espada with gull-wing opening that inspired the "Back to the Future" car. The visit ends with the prototype of the helicopter and the 13.5-meter Fast 45 Diablo Class 1 offshore boat with a Lamborghini engine, 11 times world champion.

1.15 pm lunch at Trattoria Anna Mushrooms and Truffles

2.30 pm departure for Bologna with arrival at 3.00 pm.

The guided tour of the exhibition of over 50 works by the Italian sculpture and painter Nicola Verlato will give us the unique opportunity to view and understand this contemporary artist's work. The tour begins at 11 a.m. so we will meet outside the Museo San Domenico, Via Sacchi 4, Imola at 10.45. The entrance fee is €4 and the cost of the guided tour is €7. The guided tour has to be booked in advance not later than Friday a.m. So please sign up no later than Thursday 16/01/ Protected content