Romano Prodi awarded the Golden Archiginnasio, Bologna's highest cultural honour. Prodi: 'The city has always been close to me with affection and participation' 'I perhaps learned more things by chatting under the porticoes with Andreatta and others than by reading the treaties' 'Bologna deserves to win the Champions Cup, in every field' 'Our task - he urged - is now to create the new Archiginasio in the former tobacco factory, renewing the idea of medieval colleges, attracting teachers and scientists and not just students' 'The Ulivo was born in BologNA, because it was the synthesis of a ferment cultural, of a dialogue to which we were spontaneously accustomed', he says.
'I have always lived here and it is a choice that I have never regretted', says Prodi, adding that he has always read the news of the city wherever he has been in the world, "public and private" 'I am moved by this recognition - he said - I perhaps learned less by reading treaties than by chatting with people in the street'