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Turning right outside the door, at Via Val D'Aposa, named after one of the
rivers that formed part of the Bologna's canal system in the Middle Ages, I
turn right again. One cannot help but notice, a short distance ahead on the
right, the Oratorio of the Holy Spirit, erected by the Celestines from 1481 to
1497. It seems like a dollhouse church, with intricate terracotta decorations
on its facade. The street is narrow and the ordinary porticoed palazzi --
stained shades of golden yellow to rusty red ocher -- smell musty. I wander
toward Piazza Maggiore again, aware that under my feet as I walk, Roman Bononia
still rests as it has for centuries. And so I end today's encounter with the
layers of Bologna's past.
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