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We started off our last day taking the San Luca train to the top of the hill.  Along the way you get a nice history of Bologna and the arches and the 600+ porticos.  They had to be tall enough for a man on a horse with a hat to pass through.  They were used by everyone as a place to sell wares, be protected from elements etc.  It was a cool history about all of them. Along the drive we saw what they called fat Madonna.  It is a beautiful statue.  So much of the way to the top is dedicated to the blessed mother.  But if I made Ronnie walk almost over an hour and a half uphill to see a church. he would kill me.  Thank goodness I found the train!  :-) As we ascended the hill, I was not sure the "train" was going to make it.  Their is beautiful religious art work all the way up the hill.   At the top they turn around for you to be able to take a picture of the Santuario delle Beata Vergine di San Luca Video of the entry into the ch...

 We started off the day sort of late.  Decided to do a day trip to Modena, round trip was under 17 euros total for us both.  We walked to the train station which is literally like 5 minutes from our hotel grabbed a cappuccino water and apricot filled croissant and off we went.  We arrive in Modena less than a half hour later.   look at the pretty streets of Modena Another day another piazza! But we were in Modena and I was in search of balsamic...a tasting a something.  The first store I went in to had very, very high end balsamic you could do a tasting for a price and the cheapest bottle started at 60 Euro.  This was not our balsamic market.  This was a little above where we wanted to buy and we have tasted the really expensive stuff before.  But then we found a reasonable store.  Giuseppe Giusti offers free tastings of their balsamic at all different levels and their vermouth.  It was all fantastic.  We decided on some i...