Italy Guide
Emilia-Romagna
Palazzo Poggi
The Palazzo Poggi at no. 33 is home to many of the university's small specialist museums on subjects as diverse as naval maps and charts, human anatomy, physics and natural history Opening time: Mon– Fri 10am–1pm & 2–4pm, Sat & Sun 10.30am–1.30pm & 2.30–5.30pm 
051.209.9360, 
www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it Price: free. On the fourth floor, the fascinating 300-year-old Specola, or observatory, attracts the majority of visitors. Its small Museo di Astronomia (Tues– Fri 10am–1pm & 2pm–4pm, Sat 10.30am–1.30pm & 2.30pm–5.30pm; free) is home to a number of eighteenth-century instruments and a frescoed map of the constellations – painted just seventy years after Galileo was imprisoned for his heretical statements about the cosmos.