My town

The town where I was born and where I am still living is Bologna. This is the Emilia Romagna county seat. It's a small city with about 500 thousand people that live here. It's famous for the food(such as: tortellini, lasagne, ragù and mortadella)and for the ancient towers, which in the medieval period were almost two hundred, but now are less than ten (the most famous and the biggest are Asinelli and Garisenda's towers). Another trait about Bologna are the arcades (portici): this city has the higher number of arcades in the world, approximately 45KM. There is a beautiful old town center where you can walk by foot or by bicycle (only trams and a few cars can cross the center) and where you can go for an aperitivo. A curiosity: some friends told me that somewhere abroad (like in the USA) there is a plate called: "pasta alla bolognese". The strange thing is that in Bologna doesn't exist "Pasta alla bolognese"! I think that could be pasta with ragu'.