Bologna Central

Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern end of three lines between Bologna and Florence: the original Bologna-Florence line through Porretta Terme and Pistoia; the Bologna–Florence Direttissima via Prato, which opened on 22 April 1934 and the Bologna-Florence high-speed line, which opened to traffic on 13 December 2009.

Bologna Central Station is the fifth-busiest in Italy in terms of passenger movements (about 58 million passengers per year). It is, however, one of the busiest, along with Rome Termini Station, for the number of train movements per day (about 800).

There are two levels of railway tracks within the station complex: Bologna Centrale and Bologna Centrale (AV) alta velocità (high speed). The central part of Bologna Centrale contains through tracks for high-speed trains (except Frecciarossa trains which travel only on the Milan-Bologna high-speed line), intercity and regional trains. In addition, there are two groups of side tracks: the western side has six tracks for regional trains from Milan or Verona (with Bologna Centrale as a terminus) and the eastern side has six tracks for regional trains from Prato, Ancona and Pescara (with Bologna Centrale as a terminus).

Dijon Ville

Introduction

The station building to the train is divided into two different sections:

(1) The iconic feature of Dijon Station is its main entrance to the rotunda, sourced from a building that mimics the London Underground station.

The station has a ticket office, a “SNCF boutique”, a traffic information office (you can get a map of Dijon from here) and an entrance to the car rental office. It is also one of the station access points that are located where most trains leave.

In Dijon, most stations are replaced by letters instead of numbers.

(2) If you enter the station through its main entrance, the second part leading to the station, its main departure hall, is located on the other side of the stairs/elevator.

The location of this departure hall is:

(i) Waiting room (ii) Information Desk (iii) Cafe (iv) Luggage storage at the main entrance at the other end of the departure hall. (v) Some hidden elevators are alternative passages to the train platform, which are located on the side of the entrance to the waiting room.

Going to the city center

Dijon station is located on the western edge of the city centre, so the city centre is about a 15-minute walk from the station. Since the city centre is a pedestrian street, buses and trams from the front yard of the station do not cross the city centre, so hiking may be the best or only viable option.

Once you are in the front yard of the station, the tramway leads directly to Avenue MaréchalFoch, which is a pedestrian street. In 5 to 10 minutes you will walk to Place Darcy, which is located at the western end of Rue dela Liberté, the main street of Dijon. The tram stops in Darcy, but it is still a 5-10 minute walk from Dijon.

To the east of Rue delaLiberté is Place dela Libération, which is also home to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. This area of the eastern end of Rue dela Liberté is served by the free "City" shuttle, which runs every 10 minutes during the day from Monday to Saturday.

However, it stops at 'Gare' and not in the front yard of Dijon Station, you have to walk 3-5 minutes from Boulevardde Sévignés to get to the station.

Bologna (, UK also , Italian: [boˈloɲɲa] ; Bolognese: Bulåggna [buˈlʌɲːa]; Latin: Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, at the heart of a metropolitan area of about one million people. Of Etruscan origin, the city has been a major urban centre for centuries, first under the Etruscans, then under the Romans (Bononia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and signoria, when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved historical centre, thanks to a careful restoration and conservation policy which began at the end of the 1970s. Home to the oldest university in the world, the University of Bologna, established in AD 1088, the city has a large student population that gives it a cosmopolitan character. In 2000 it was declared European capital of culture and in 2006, a UNESCO "City of Music" and became part of the Creative Cities Network.Bologna is an important agricultural, industrial, financial and transport hub, where many large mechanical, electronic and food companies have their headquarters as well as one of the largest permanent trade fairs in Europe. According to the most recent data gathered by the European Regional Economic Growth Index (E-REGI) of 2009, Bologna is the first Italian city and the 47th European city in terms of its economic growth rate. As a consequence, Bologna is also one of the wealthiest cities in Italy, often ranking as one of the top cities in terms of quality of life in the country: in 2011 it ranked 1st out of 107 Italian cities.

Dijon (UK: , US: , French: [diʒɔ̃] ) is a city in eastern France, capital of the Côte-d'Or département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning and science. Population (2008): 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 (2007) for the greater Dijon area. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited town houses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon architecture is distinguished by, among other things, toits bourguignons (Burgundian polychrome roofs) made of tiles glazed in terracotta, green, yellow and black and arranged in geometric patterns. Dijon holds an International and Gastronomic Fair every year in autumn. With over 500 exhibitors and 200,000 visitors every year, it is one of the ten most important fairs in France. Dijon is also home, every three years, to the international flower show Florissimo. Dijon is famous for Dijon mustard which originated in 1856, when Jean Naigeon of Dijon substituted verjuice, the acidic "green" juice of not-quite-ripe grapes, for vinegar in the traditional mustard recipe. The historical centre of the city has been registered since July 4, 2015 as a UNESCO World Heritage site.