The old market in Bologna’s Quadrilatero, Italy. How the day starts in Bologna! скачать в хорошем качестве

The old market in Bologna’s Quadrilatero, Italy. How the day starts in Bologna!

#travel #food #streetfooditaly #bologna #italy #mortadella #pasta #parmesan #Quadrilatero When talking to Italians about Bologna, it is rare that anyone can refrain from exclaiming “ah, si mangia bene!” They say that they eat well there, that the food is delicious. Bologna is called la rossa, the red one, for the color of its walls and roofs (and its long communist past), la dotta, the learned one, for its university, the oldest in Europe, la grassa, the fat one, for its cuisine. Emilia-Romagna, the capital of which is Bologna, can easily be called the gastronomic center of Italy, because it is the region that gave the world the products without which Italian cuisine is unimaginable. These are mortadella, Parma ham and parmesan, Modena balsamic vinegar. The heart of any city, and especially a city famous for its food, is the market. In Bologna, food stalls occupy several streets: this is the area known as Mercato del Quadrilatero. This is an area located in the heart of the historic center of Bologna. This square area includes Via Rizzoli, Via dell'Archiginnasio, Via Farini and Via Castiglione, and stretches from Piazza Maggiore to the Asinelli and Garisenda towers. The area and its narrow streets are also home to a market whose history dates back to the Middle Ages. Here you will find many specialized craft and commercial shops with a long tradition. These shops (and family businesses) have been passed down from generation to generation and still preserve historical furniture and architecture. Here, huge wheels of cheese are stacked on top of each other, here pigs' feet hang from the ceiling, here handmade pasta glows in a sunny yellow. Take a closer look: behind some of the counters, a passage leads down and deep into the city's underground, connecting the upper part of the shop, accessible to customers, with the lower part, the storage area, which allowed traders, in the absence of refrigerators, to guarantee the freshness of their products to their customers. The street is called the street of old fish stalls, Via Pescherie Vechhie. The stalls and shops have been here for decades, if not centuries. Generation after generation of Bolognese go for fish to Pescheria del Pavaglione, for prosciutto and mortadella to Salumeria Simoni, and for a glass of wine to Osteria del Sole.