On March 6, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair hosted a 60th-anniversary party at Palazzo Re Enzo in the city’s Piazza Maggiore, featuring pasta, prosecco, and live music late into the night.

On Saturday April 22, an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of central Bologna in a defiant, noisy dance for the right to rave. Labelled the ‘Smash Repression’ street rave, the parade was a ...