This component includes significant porticoed
buildings around Piazza Cavour and Piazza Minghetti.
Even after the unification of Italy, Bologna continued
to build porticoes on both public and private buildings,
designed in accordance with the architectural
principles and the regulations of the medieval
municipality. Here the portico assumes a bourgeois
and stately tone, very different of that of the
surrounding area; it in fact became a model for the
design of porticoed commercial quarters in European
cities at the end of the 19th century.
