City Game - let's discover Bologna together

The erasmus were divided in teams, each of which had some task to complete. There were some mandatory and some optional task. The winners got some discounts for our upcoming activities. The event took place in full respect of covid rules in our country.

Here you have the description of the Game:

GENERAL RULES: Hello to everyone and welcome to the city game of Bologna ! How does it work ? The game is divided in two parts: FIRST PART: 10 compulsory stages that you have to do in the right order, the more original photos will get more points, the speed will have less weight in the final  of the score. End of the first part 5:30pm! SECOND PART: under the towers an ESNer will tell you the optional stages that you may do in any order you want, every stage has a different score based on the difficulty. End of the second part 7:30pm ! For every stage one of your team has to do a selfie or a video with all the team ad make an insta-story tagging @esn_bologna with #esncitygame2020 #esnbologna# (name of the team)  COMPULSORY STAGES:

• Find the house of a famous singer from Bologna, it’s a few step from “Piazza Maggiore”, leaving behind you the palaces of “Piazza del Nettuno” just go straight ahead for “Via d’Azeglio”; here you’ll find at the number 13 you’ll find the singer Lucio Dalla painted on a wall. Search for the ESNer make a video singing together and post it on Instagram.

• Thanks to this challenge you’ll learn a new language ! Run in Piazza Maggiore. Search for the ESNer make a video repeating one of these aphorisms, and post it on Instagram:

  “L é méi un bèl taŝair che un bèl parlèr”

(E’ meglio un bel parlare che un bel tacere) Si rivolge di solito a chi ostenta conoscenze poi puntualmente smentite durante la discussione A cavâl dunè, an’s’guèrda in bacca (A cavallo donato non si guarda in bocca) Detto che proviene dal mondo del commercio. Quando si trattava il prezzo di un cavallo, si era soliti guardare i denti in bocca per capirne l’età effettiva. Il proverbio indica che se si riceve una donazione è scortese puntualizzare sulla sua qualità. I fiû di gât i ciâpn i póndg (I figli dei gatti acchiappano i topi) Questo proverbio è usato per descrivere, in modo pregiudizievole, che non ci si può aspettare un comportamento diverso da parenti e sodali di una persona malfidata “Bùs dal cùl, aiùtum !” (Fortuna assistimi !) “Al prem còulp an casca l'alber” (Al primo colpo non cade l'albero.) Bisogna tentare più di una volta per ottenere qualcosa “Du gal in t'un pullar i stan mal” (Due galli in un solo pollaio stanno male.) Dicesi di due che appetiscono alla stessa cosa, figurativamente anche due rivali in amore

• Now it’s time to tell a secret to you teammate, run to voltone del Podestà, under  Palazzo Re Enzo. Here you’ll find ESNer, let him take you a picture and post it on Instagram.

• If you walk from Piazza della Mercanzia to Piazza Santo Stefano, look up for the head of the statue, on the right up side of the street, the one that represent a devil face. Take a selfie with the Devil of Santo Stefano and post it on Instagram.

• Now run to Corte Isolani, in Strada Maggiore, here you’ll find an ESNer that tell you about a corious legend. You’ll become actors a for a few minutes. Make a video acting the legend you just learned and post in the Ista-stories.

• It’s time to eat something typical from Bologna !

In the QUADRILATERO, on the sides of all the small streets that are behind the arch of Pavaglione (Via Clavature, Via Pescherie Vecchie, Via Marchesana, etc.), you’ll easily find all the typical Bologna’s food. Try a typical plate, take a picture of your team eating that and post it on the Instagram stories.

• Now it’s time to visit a city symbol of Bologna the two towers !

Take a selfie with them, post it like an Instagram story and search for the ESN guys under the towers that will tell you the second part of the game.

• Once upon a time Bologna was a city really similar to Venezia, full of canals, in Via Piella looking the through a small window you can discover the magic of the history.

Make a picture of your team looking the secret of the small windows on the canal and post it on Instagram.

• Do you already know that Bologna had a Jewish ghetto ? Go in Via de’ Giudei and search one of the blue hands that characterize the street of this small district.

Take a selfie under one of these blue hands and post it on the Instagram stories.

• Via Indipendenza is one of the main street and well knows of Bologna, it’s has a secret. Go on Via Indipendenza 1 and look over your heads to see the famous Canton de’ Fiori. 

Take a selfie while you are looking the Canton de’ Fiori and post it on the Instagram stories. OPTIONAL STAGES:

• Bologna was surrounded by walls and to get in the town you had to go through 13 doors.

Take a selfie with all these doors and post it on Instagram. (1 point for each port)

• In Piazza del Nettuno there is a peculiar street lamp because is turned on every time a child born here in Bologna.

Find it, take a selfie in front of it and post it on Instagram. (1 point)

• With the two towers it’s a main symbol of Bologna and also keeps one of the seven secrets.

Take a selfie in front of the Nettuno and pos it on Instagram. (1 point)

• Not everyone knows that the Nettuno has a wife. You can find her on the stairs at the entrance of the Montagnola Park she’s a beautiful nymph driven by an horse.

Find her and take a selfie with her and post in on Instagram. (2 points)

• Take a picture forming the ESN inscription with your bodies and post it on Instagram.

(1 point)

• Bologna is the city of arcade. Do you know which one is the more antique ? 

Go to Piazza della Mercanzia and take a selfie under the wood arcade and post in on Instagram. (1 point)

• Soccer is one of the most important sport in in Bologna (and in Italy).

Take a picture in front of the Renato Dall’Ara stadium and post it. (5 points)

• You should know one of the most important building of the city !

Go to the ESN office and take a selfie  and post it on Instagram. (2 points)

• The Sette Chiese are one of the nicest buildings in the town. Sit down in Piazza Santo Stefano in front of the Sette Chiese let someone take you a picture and post it on Instagram.

(1 point)

• Do you know what is called “Gnomone” ? Is the dial that stays inside San Petronio

Take a selfie with it an post it. (5 points)

• In Via Ugo Bassi there is a statue of the martyr Ugo Bassi that points the street that go to Rome.

Take a Picture all together pointing the street in the direction of Rome and post it on Instagram. (1 point)

• Have you ever been to San Luca ? Go up for the 666 steps and take a selfie with the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca.

(20 points)

• The Alma Mater Studiorum is the most antique university of Europe and one of the most antique in the world. The Aula Magna is inside the church of Santa Lucia in Via Castiglione 23.

Take a selfie in front of the entrance of the Aula Magna and post it. (2 points)

• Is the center of the Bolognese university life. What are we talking about ? We are talking about Piazza Verdi !

Take a selfie on it and post it. (1 point)

• When there is a nice weather there isn’t nicest things to take a walk in Giardini Margherita.

Take a selfie near the lake of Giardini Margherita and post it. (3 points)

• The Montagnola  park keeps more than one secret. Have you ever noticed of the big fountain of the turtles in the middle of the park ?

Find it and take a selfie near it and post it. (2 points)

• In Via Dal Luzzo you can find a really particular statue that gives the name to the near street.

Find the statue of Luccio, take a selfie near it and post it. (2 points)

• Bologna is characterized by building with big internal patios.

Try to take a selfie in one of these patios.  (5 points)

• Behind san Petronio, in Galvani’s Place there is a statue of the famous Luigi Galvani with him frog, that let him formulate his more important theories. 

Find the statue of Galvani, take a selfie near it and post it. (1 point)

• A few meter form San Petronio there is a really nice church, the San Domenico church.

Take a selfie near the entrate of this church and post it. (2 points)

• In Bologna there aren’t just the Margherita Gardens or the Montagnola. Have you ever been to the garden of San Lorenzo ?

Take a picture in this small green corner and post it. (1 point)

• When the city game was started you passed by the Basilica of San Francesco. In front of this church there are the tombs of one of the most important and oldest professors of the UNIBO.

Go back and take a selfie in front of the tombs of the Glossatori and post it on Instagram. (1 point)

• Looking the font of one of the building that stand on piazzetta dell’ex Chiesa di San Donato in Via Zamboni you’ll notice that there is a keystone representing an animal mask with mouth open. It is said that on feast days the lords of that palace would rain wine from the wide-open mouth of the mask.

Find the sputavino mask take a selfie with it and post it. (3 points)

• Do you know where the Belvedere of Bologna is located? Go up to San Michele in Bosco and the Rizzoli Institute to take a selfie with the Bologna skyline as a background and post it.

(10 points)

• In ancient times the Voltone del Podestà was used for executions.

Find what remains of the Forca del Podestà and take a photo under the structure and post it. (2 points)