A glimpse of typical Parisian style stands of the 20’s, brings attention to Libreria Nanni.

The sign of the historic restaurant, Buca San Petronio, is called this because of Bologna’s custom to say “buca”, to talk about the underground rooms used for catering and it has been kept even by the new management, Pizzas Ristorante.

A tiny cobbler’s shop

The succession of shop windows with wooden frames and gables is a natural mall, a place where people from Bologna stroll, have a look at the most elegant shop windows of the city, meet friends and stop at the eateries.

Avrone Optics has been in this city since 1906, carrying on after the Lenzi
Company founded in 1836, and is of family tradition. It has collections of antique optical instruments, spectacles and cameras.

Piazza Galvani is located at the back of Basilica di San Petronio in front of Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio. In the middle of the square there is a statue representing Luigi Galvani

The Campo footwear shop, with a sign in bronze and decorated ceilings, continues the tradition of established merchandise since 1929

Feltrinelli bookshop continues the long history of the bookshop of Nicola Zanichelli, publisher and printer.

The cafè Zanarini in piazza Galvani has been run by this family since 1930. Still today it is among the fashionable cafes in the city.

The Fossi Mesticheria (small paint and hardware store), founded in 1858, has been present in this location since 1912, the shop window with a compass, a sales counter and a stucco ceiling dates back to that period.

At the corner with via Farini, in the cosmetics shop, you can get a glimpse of the original shelves of the famous Libreria Cappelli (Cappelli Bookshop).

Refined and elegant Majani shop in via Carbonesi, that sells chocolate and confectionery made by Casa Majani, which has produced high quality products since 1796.

In palazzo Cavazza, you can find atelier Bosi. Guido learned his trade as a tailor from his uncle Ernesto, owner of one of the first and most famous tailor’s shops in town, active since 1913.

The shop sold stationery items, pens, notebooks and registers, run by the Alcione family under the name “Al Balanzone” since 1970.

Under the portico of piazza Cavour, there is the Marchi barber, in which
the 1870 furnishings of the shop have been kept unchanged.

Galleria Cavour was designed in the 50’s to recover a part of the city that was destroyed by the war.

At Castiglione you can find the entrance to Marzocchi, a firm present in this
city since the eighteenth century. It moved to its present site in the early twentieth century and sells a wide range of household items

With four generations of family tradition it began as a shoe factory. Since 1934 is in its present location with the original furnishings.

Shop specializing in electrical equipment and small appliances, Priori shop, founded in 1928.