This very long porticoed modern residential construction is a high-quality innovative architectural structure with deep roots in local history. Built according to rigorous functional principles, the “Treno della Barca” is a modern reworking of the traditional Bolognese portico, restoring life to a peripheral zone of the city and making evident its never-ending expressive vitality and identity strength rooted in a secular tradition.

The continuous maintenance of this and of other residential structures of the zone, carried out mostly by its own inhabitants, has protected this peripheral part of the city against degradation, leading it to become a model of social inclusion in addition to architectural excellence.