Bologna is a city that offers a high quality of life. The metropolitan area benefits from an efficient public services system focused on the well-being of workers, families, and students: from nurseries to outstanding schools, and one of the best public healthcare systems in Italy, internationally recognized. Many who come to Bologna to study or start a business often choose to stay, drawn by an environment that combines opportunity and well-being.

The metropolitan area blends cultural tradition and innovation, city life and nature: a territory that stretches from the urban core to hills, mountains, and parks, which together cover half of the area and act as a green lung. This unique landscape includes 133,000 hectares of hills and 160,000 hectares of plains. Bologna also allows for a city lifestyle on foot or by bike, with easy access to green spaces such as the surrounding hills. With its 246 km of bike lanes—soon to expand to approximately 700 km across the entire metropolitan area—Bologna is a bike-friendly city that promotes sustainable and healthy mobility.

Transportation is further supported by the extensive network of the Metropolitan Railway System, with 8 railway lines, 87 stops (22 of which newly built), and about 280 km of total tracks, ensuring fast and frequent connections throughout the metropolitan area.
Complementing this sustainable mobility system, a new tram network is currently under construction. It is designed to improve the quality of public transport, reduce traffic and pollution, and support urban regeneration along its routes.

Bologna is also where the Bologna Charter for the Environment was born, along with the Metropolitan Agenda for Sustainable Development—concrete commitments contributing to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for a greener future.