Bologna, Santa Lucia Fair
Metropolitan City of Bologna · Emilia-Romagna · Italy
- Admission and costs
- Santa Lucia Fair can be browsed freely beneath the portico. Purchases and sweets cost extra; the nearby Music Museum on Strada Maggiore has separate admission and is not included with the market.
- Getting there
- From Bologna Centrale station follow Via Indipendenza towards the centre, then Via Rizzoli and Strada Maggiore to the portico of Santa Maria dei Servi. This is a city-centre walk; the Christmas market is not at the BolognaFiere exhibition complex.
- Time to allow
- Allow around 3 hours at the destination, excluding travel.
- If it rains
- The International Museum and Library of Music, Palazzo Sanguinetti, Strada Maggiore 34, offers frescoed rooms and historic instruments: adult €5, reduced €3. It is a separate visit with its own hours, distinct from the market portico.

