Campus and city
Bologna is one of Europe's archetypal 'university cities' — its medieval porticoed centre, nicknamed 'la Dotta' (the learned), is dominated by students, with lively nightlife, food culture and political/cultural activism. The Multicampus model spreads life across the main Bologna hub and the smaller Romagna towns of Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini, plus an overseas campus in Buenos Aires. As a very large public university, life is energetic and independent rather than residential-college-style, with strong Erasmus and international-student communities.