Overview
The porticoes are a building feature of the city of Bologna. Most useful on rainy or snowy days, they are also an invaluable shelter on hot summer days.
In addition to providing shelter from the weather, the porticoes are also a privileged place for commercial and social life in practically all seasons.
From 1288 this building practice was organised by means of a proclamation stipulating that all new houses had to have a covered space with measurements established by various statutes: they had to be less than 2.66 metres high and wide, to allow the easy passage of a man on horseback.
Despite the regulations governing their construction, we find porticoes of all shapes and sizes in Bologna. Unique to that of Via Senzanome, a side street of Via Saragozza, which, at just 95 cm wide, is the narrowest portico in the city.
Via Senzanome, 40123 Bologna BO, Italia
