John was speaking in Bologna and planned to fly in-and-out, but it had been some years since we were there and I couldn't resist joining him and making a long weekend of it. Bologna is a city with several names. It is the red city not because of it's leftist politics but the red brickwork. It is also called the city of towers. A couple stand out today, but there are actually 21 and during the Middle Ages there were far more, which is how it got its nickname. Two of the oldest