How to spend your 25 April long weekend in Bologna

If you have already planned to spend the 25 April weekend in Bologna or have yet to make up your mind, here is an overview of everything you can do in the city among events, visits, itineraries, exhibitions, tours and much more.

• Choose an exhibition for the weekend

It is a springtime of many exhibitions in Bologna, choose your favourite and come visit.

1. CHE GUEVARA tú y todos

2. Jack Vettriano

3. Georges Simenon. Otto viaggi di un romanziere

4. Azzurro fragile - I calanchi delle argille azzurre nell’arte contemporanea

5. LIBERI! 80 years since the Liberation

From 18 April to 1 May in the Manica Lunga at Palazzo d'Accursio, the exhibition 'LIBERI! 80 years since the Liberation" will be open to the public. On display are 12 pictorial re-elaborations of archive photos related to the war of resistance, also by the artist Antonella Cinelli. 

-> Discover all the other spring exhibitions

• Enjoy our food, after all you're in Bologna!

Bologna is worldwide celebrated for its food culture and if you have decided to visit the city not least for this reason, there are plenty of events to attend this weekend.

In the city centre, enjoy the markets of the Quadrilatero and the Mercato delle Erbe, breathing in the scents and tasting the flavours while sitting at a table in a typical restaurant or osteria, between a mortadella sandwich and a good glass of wine. Make sure you book in advance as it often gets very crowded.

• Initiatives for remembrance

- at 9.30 a.m., in the Cloisters of the Basilica of Santo Stefano, the laying of a wreath at the War Memorial.
- at 10.15 a.m., in Piazza Nettuno, flag-hoisting with military honour pickets and laying of a wreath at the Memorial of the Fallen Partisans. Speakers: the Mayor of Bologna, the president of the Bologna provincial ANPI Anna Cocchi, a representative of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the president of Casa Cervi Albertina Soliani
- at 11.30 a.m., Memory Speaks, consoling with Ginevra Di Marco, voice; Francesco Magnelli, keyboard and Andrea Salvadori, guitar
- at 12 noon, in the Garden of Villa Cassarini in Porta Saragozza, the laying of a wreath at the memorial stone in memory of homosexual victims in Nazi extermination camps.

Wreaths will be laid at sites of the Resistance and at the memorial stones of fallen partisans in the city districts. Here the map.