We stayed in Gabriele’s apartment for just over four weeks using it as a base at times to travel other places such as Rome overnight, Modena over night and Florence for the day. Bologna is a great location to be able to do this and this apartment only 15 minutes walk to the Bologna central station.
The apartment itself is lovely. Beautifully designed and decorated and the balcony very much a highlight of our stay. We spent many evenings out there enjoying simple dinners, looking at the terrific view and listening to church bells and the sounds of Conservatorium students practicing , usually by this time just lovely gentle piano music.
The apartment is very comfortable and well set up for short stays or longer stays like ours.
It is very conveniently located in terms of walking to all the major attractions of Bologna. It is close to the University which makes the area very lively and the Piazza Verdi next door attracted a lot of people in the evening in particular when we were there.
The first few days our stay the weather was quite cold but after that the weather got hotter, quite unexpectedly for June. The last week was a heat wave across Europe. So people were out and about in the evening quite a bit. It also was the end of the University year.
Gabriele was very solicitous about our comfort and delivered a number of fans as the weather became warmer. We managed to keep the lovely big doors on the balcony overnight every evening which was good in terms of managing the heat.
Gabriele is a terrific host and a great pleasure to meet. He was most welcoming, very helpful, great fun to meet and to communicate with. He met us at the apartment when we arrived and arranged a taxi for our departure. His information sheet about the apartment, where to eat, buy food and so on, was excellent.
All in all a terrific experience of Airbnb.