STREETWITHNONAME

STREETWITHNONAME

Bologna

Via Senzanome

It’s incredible to imagine that a street without a name can exist, until you reach Via Senzanome (literally “nameless street”).
The narrow alley between Via Saragozza and Via Nosadella has changed name numerous times, at times into quite bizarre concoctions, before it found the right one: it started as Via Sfregatette (“tit rub”) due to its width that forced pedestrians to rub against each other: then it became Via Sozzonome (“dirty name”) perhaps due to the strange activities there witnessed.
To avoid its less honorable alternatives, it was called Senzanome and the street of Bologna still bears this name.
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