My annual trip to Bologna, Italy, is to attend the largest international children's bookfair in the world. While the fairgrounds are fairly standard convention center structures, the main library in city center hosts various exhibitions. Here, we have an exhibit showing the interactive workshop led by French illustrator Hervé Tullet, and not visible but in the rooms are two more exhibitions. One is the 100 Japanese Books over 100 Years exhibit and the other a folktales from the Arabic world. What is architecturally interesting in this scene is that the glass floors allow you to see the Etruscan and Roman ruins of Bononia that date back to 189 BC. The library is within the Palazzo d'accursio which also houses the Civic Art Collection. The singularly amazing fountain of Neptune I annually photograph and post sits outside this building.
What a fabulous image and so good you are still able to travel. The book fair must be amazing and so inspiring. I’ll bet you spent hours in the Japanese exhibition - what a fascinating contrast seeing older books against the present ones.
How beautiful this is! Your book fair sounds absolutely magical. I can only imagine how good it feels to be there after the last two years of closures.
