The Italian Voice

Ciao amici, as promised I am here today to report about yesterday evening when I spent a couple of hours with my mother at the nice Notte Bianca in Bologna.

As we live in province, we left at 7 pm, driving the car until the periphery to take a bus to the city. We got off 5 minutes far from the street of the event; the close streets were crowded and the weather a bit hotter than in the past days, but it was pleasant to walk with no hurry under the typical porches and looking around at the monuments, churches and palaces.

The event was located just downtown, in via S. Isaia, which was completely closed to traffic for the occasion.

I add here the mosaic which I prepared with my most relevant shots and here below I am going to tell you what we experienced at the Notte Bianca in Bologna.

We immediately met the ice cream man and a nice fruit stand, then we found a wonderful show at the open air with ballett dancers which attracted a lot of visitors.
I also took a video about a ballett performed in honour of the upcoming Olympic Games 2008 of Beijing of the , today I was not able to reduce its size as I was a bit busy, but be sure that I will show it to you as soon as possible, I liked it a lot, so stay tuned to watch it when it is ready!!

Going on along the street called via S. Isaia, we saw an exhibition of firemen who prepared a sort of wall climbing for children; in fact, one of the kids was too sweet, climbing the wall, all dressed with the typical helmet and jacket, helped by two men.

Not far from them, there was a special small area dedicated to a tango school literally at the open air, where couples could learn to dance that faschinating dance with a soft light.

All along the street, visitors could appreciate the music offered by disk jockeys at several consoles under the porches and fabulous jazz bands in front of the historical coffee bars while tasting a fresh aperitif and looking at the children while playing with air-balloons, as well as hunting for nice bargains into the shops which already started to sell with the summer sales.

Just before leaving, I wanted to offer to my mother the heavenly ice cream by the famous Gelateria Gianni, which is situated just behind the corner between the central streets called via Indipendenza and via U. Bassi (see this map); it was just the right conclusion for that nice evening!!

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