Bologna has three nicknames:
- La Dotta - the learned, as it's home to the "oldest" university in the world (debatable, but let's go with it)
- La Grassa - the fat, due to the Emilian cuisine: rich in butter and absolutely wonderful
- La Rossa - the red, said to be a reference to the color of the city, but there are naturally tongue-in-cheek implications around her politics
I've never really understood the latter from the physical sense - Bologna is red, but it's also tangerine and rose and salmon and cantaloupe. I tried to search for the red this trip with little success, but enjoyed the thrill of the hunt.
