Finestrella di Via Piella

The "finestrella" is a classic for us Bolognese, apparently the city has no rivers but in the area between Via Piella and Via Alessandrini you can see an ancient canal that survived the subsequent landfills. Via Piella is not in the usual routes, you have to go and look for it. Suddenly, under a portico of Via Piella, a dark wooden one appears, opening it you find yourself facing a window on the Canale delle Moline, one of the few that has not been sealed. silk factories, there was a river port designed by Vignola (via del Porto), which the canals, almost all artificial, were navigable and from which goods departed towards the Venetian lagoon and the world.