Susan Van Allen
7 min readSep 15, 2021

Bologna’s Three T’s

Discovering Pleasures of this City of Towers, Tortellini, and Tette

Whenever I’m in Italy I find myself standing next to a stranger, admiring a naked woman.

Bologna’s Fountain of Neptune

Such as when I stood in Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore with a scholarly-looking signor, gasping over a naked nymph who was spouting water from her breasts. The sculpture, (accompanied by three sister nymphs), forms the base of the Fountain of Neptune. The stranger…

Susan Van Allen

Author of “100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go” and lots more about Italian travel, especially for women. www.susanvanallen.com