The Two Towers are one of the symbols of Bologna, and were probably also the landmark that towered in view of the city for those coming from Ravenna and the Via Emilia Sud.
Today’s Piazza di Porta Ravegnana, with its towers, was in practice the point of arrival and departure for connections to Ravenna, which was already a city of great importance in late imperial times and later became the capital of the Byzantine government in Italy.
This area of Bologna was the gateway for communication and for political relations at the highest level: first with the Empire and then with the Pope. The Two Towers towered over everything for almost nine hundred years: already built in stone at the beginning of the 12th century.
