Historic Cities
Explore Bologna in 1575
AI rebuilds Bologna (Papal Bologna) street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Papal Bologna, 1575
Bologna in 1575 is a prosperous provincial capital of the Papal States in the midst of a Renaissance remaking: a new Archiginnasio houses the Studium, Giambologna's bronze Neptune presides over a renewed square, and a network of hidden canals still turns mills and feeds a busy canal port. This walk moves from the rim of the city through its gates, market streets and porticoes to the waterways and hilltop views that shape its skyline.
36 scenes, 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Bologna as it stood in 1575 (“Bologna”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Colle della Guardia
- 2. Porta Galliera
- 3. Strada Maggiore Porticoes
- ↳ Portico Osteria · interior
- 4. Porta Ravegnana
- 5. Mercato di Mezzo
- ↳ Great Meat Hall · interior
- 6. Torre della Garisenda
- 7. Torre degli Asinelli
- ↳ Asinelli Watch Chamber · interior
- 8. Piazza del Nettuno
- 9. San Petronio Façade
- ↳ Vast Nave · interior
- 10. Palazzo Re Enzo
- ↳ Cell of King Enzo · interior
- 11. Palazzo dei Banchi
- ↳ Money-changers' Hall · interior
- 12. Palazzo d'Accursio
- ↳ Papal Legate's Audience Hall · interior
- 13. Archiginnasio Court
- ↳ Students' Painted Corridor · interior
- 14. Via dell'Archiginnasio
- ↳ Great Hall of Law · interior
- 15. Studium Streets
- ↳ Notaries' Scriptorium · interior
- 16. Piazza Santo Stefano
- 17. Santa Maria dei Servi
- ↳ Colonnaded Nave · interior
- 18. Via delle Moline
- ↳ Reel and Throwing Room · interior
- 19. Canale delle Moline
- ↳ Water-Throwing Mill · interior
- 20. Porto del Navile
- ↳ Crane House and Warehouse · interior
- 21. Ponte di Galliera
- 22. San Michele in Bosco