Piazza del Nettuno.Bologna
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Piazza del Nettuno.Bologna
Artist
Jennie Breeze
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Photograph - Original Img_0840
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Bologna is the largest city and the capital of Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. The Fountain of Neptune is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy. Its bronze figure of Neptune, extending his reach in a lordly gesture of stilling and controlling the waters, is an early work by Giambologna, completed about 1567. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, located in the heart of a metropolitan area of about one million. It is home to prestigious cultural, economic and political institutions as well as one of the most impressive trade fair districts in Europe. Bologna is also one of the wealthiest cities in Italy, often ranking as one of the top cities in terms of quality of life in the country: in 2011 it ranked 1st out of 107 Italian cities. Bologna's 350 acres historic center is Europe's second largest, containing an immense wealth of important medieval, renaissance, and baroque artistic monuments. Over the centuries, Bologna has acquired many nicknames: "the learned one" (la dotta) is a reference to its university; "the fat one" (la grassa) refers to its cuisine. Fostering a wide range of genres from classical to electronic, jazz, folk and opera, Bologna offers its citizens a musical vitality that deeply infiltrates the city's professional, academic, social and cultural facets.
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