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Our most recommended Bologna Family-friendly activities

Bologna: FICO Eataly World Ticket with Tour & Tastings

1. Bologna: FICO Eataly World Ticket with Tour & Tastings

Visit FICO Eataly World, an Italian food-themed amusement park in Bologna. Stimulate your senses while combining Italian cuisine and fun. Enjoy a guided tour with 4 tastings from many of the dining options available Be greeted by an entrance of farm animals and explore the 7 themed areas dedicated to Italian culinary excellence of salami, cheese, pasta, game, wine, oil, and sweets. Take your tour and enjoy 4 tastings as you're entertained by spectacular scenery full of recreational activities, rides, and food-themed attractions.

Bologna: Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

2. Bologna: Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

Get to know Bologna at your own pace on this interactive scavenger hunt walking tour played on your phone. Decipher riddles, interact with the most important attractions of the city, and unlock interesting facts and legends. An ideal outdoor activity for first time visitors, couples, groups, families, and children. Can be used as a great team-building activity. Solve puzzles outside of ten Bologna attractions. Use clues at each attraction to find your next destination. Enjoy the challenge of using logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to complete the game. Feel the satisfaction of solving each riddle. At each stop, learn about the attraction and solve a location-based riddle that can only be solved if you reach the specific location. Use logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to unlock the correct code and reveal the next destination of the city sightseeing game. Have the freedom to pause or resume the tour whenever you want. Admire the city at your own pace. Uncover interesting information and facts about the city. Snap as many pictures as you want.  You can start playing anytime, the schedule is indicative. Start your tour at Towers of Bologna. Visit the Biblioteca Salaborsa with its unique archives. Photograph the municipal complex of Palazzo d'Accursio and the chapel and admire the Santuario di Santa Maria della Vita with its original Gothic style and lifelike sculptures. Then head to the Salina Palace and Osteria Le Sette Chiese for some unbeatable photo opportunities. Admire the beautiful Piazza Minghetti and the interior of Basilica di San Domenico. The small but miraculous Oratorio dello Spirito Santo is well worth your time, and the icing on the cake is the Church of the Holy Savior.

Bologna: FICO Eataly World, Pizza Making

3. Bologna: FICO Eataly World, Pizza Making

Enjoy a day of fun and food at Bologna’s Italian food theme park, Fico Eataly World. Explore the park’s seven themed areas, and take a pizza cooking class. At the park, find a new entrance with farm animals and seven themed areas dedicated to Italian culinary excellence (Salami, Cheese, Pasta, Game, Wine, Oil, Sweets), all divided by new scenery and enriched with games, rides, and food-themed attractions. Enjoy your experience with a hands-on pizza cooking class.

Bologna: Admission Ticket Fico + Pasta Making

4. Bologna: Admission Ticket Fico + Pasta Making

Discover the "park to taste", stimulate the 5 senses, and combine your passion for Italian food with fun. Find a new entrance with farm animals, 7 themed areas dedicated to the great Italian culinary excellence (Area of Salami, Cheese, Pasta, Game, Wine, Oil, Sweets) divided by new and spectacular scenery and enriched with games, rides, and food-themed attractions.

Bologna: FICO Ticket with Wine Class

5. Bologna: FICO Ticket with Wine Class

Experience Fico, a unique "park to taste" that stimulates the 5 senses, and combines the passion for Italian food and fun. Enter the park through an entrance with farm animals to encounter 7 themed areas dedicated to Italian culinary excellence. The areas are devoted to Salami, Cheese, Pasta, Game, Wine, Oil, and Sweets, and are all enriched with games, rides, and food-themed attractions. Take advantage of an inclusive 1-hour wine tasting class as part of this package.

Bologna: FICO Ticket with Mortadella Class

6. Bologna: FICO Ticket with Mortadella Class

Experience Fico, a unique "park to taste" that stimulates the 5 senses, and combines the passion for Italian food and fun. Enter the park through an entrance with farm animals to encounter 7 themed areas dedicated to Italian culinary excellence. The areas are devoted to Salami, Cheese, Pasta, Game, Wine, Oil, and Sweets, and are all enriched with games, rides, and food-themed attractions. Take advantage of an inclusive 1-hour Mortadella class as part of this package.

Bologna: City Discover by E-Bike Rental with Safety Gear

7. Bologna: City Discover by E-Bike Rental with Safety Gear

The Bologna province is a perfect area for people that loves to cycle; the 70% of the city is in flat and the 30% is in hills. Because of this structure, the city has develops has a cycle friendly city and beyond that in the last three years the cycle infrastructure has improved a lot. You can pick an e-bike from our shop, and we will suggest you the best routes: itinerary in the medieval city center, trails in the hills and the mountains that are surrounding the city, paths in flat are following riverbanks.

From Bologna: Private Venice Day Trip with Transfer

8. From Bologna: Private Venice Day Trip with Transfer

Become mesmerized by the unique beauty of Venice on a private day trip from Bologna. Enjoy a guided stroll through the most vibrant neighborhoods and get lost in their quaint narrow roads. Gaze at world-famous landmarks and hop on a traditional gondola to dive into the charming canals. Meet your driver at your hotel and ride toward Venice, where you'll find your guide. Begin your journey by walking through Cannaregio, the biggest neighborhood in the city. Admire the exterior of the Gothic-style Madonna dell'Orto Church and learn about the Jewish Ghetto, located in this district. Continue on to the iconic Rialto Bridge and snap amazing photos of its ancient design. Listen to interesting local stories and anecdotes as you make your way to St Mark's Square. Admire the majestic facades of its buildings, like St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace. Before heading back, end the day with an intimate gondola ride through the picturesque canals. Have some free time to shop or purchase lunch, then meet your driver for your return ride to Bologna.

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What are the best day trips and excursions from Bologna?

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What people are saying about Bologna

Lovely way to see the main sites at your own pace. We only had one day in Bologna so wanted to make the most of it and this scavenger hunt was just fabulous.

Brilliant way to learn about and explore the city at your own pace. Myself and my partner had an absolute blast completing this throughout the city

This was a great self paced tour of the city, which provided the option to explore a number of the attractions at our pace and continue the tour.

Very interesting place to visit (not too big) and the pasta course was excellent!!

They were super nice and fun. Learned so much about Mort Bologna