MODENA
PARMA
SORAGNA
RAVENNA
RIMINI
RICCIONE
COMACCHIO
WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO BEAR & CHUBBY CHASERS
This is the region italians call "fun factory"... and that's exactly what it is even for chubby chasers!
Via Boldrini 22 - phone 051-255890 -
You should get here if you never did. It's kind of a must for bearlovers, for furlovers and for chasers of any kind. Many don't find it, 'cos you need to be smart. The first time I just followed a big fat guy. This procedure seems to work. You should get to the corner with via Boldrini, just a few steps from the station, and fllow the first moustached guy with that funny look... there is a big chance he'll be going to the sauna!
Let's say that the sauna doesn't have a traditional entry, 'cos you'll need to get into a small courtyard behind a gate (always open) and knock to civic 22. A small door will let you to a huge sauna on two floors, with tv rooms, finnish sauna, turkish bath, relaxing small rooms, darkeveverything and... During weekends bears and woofy ones from Emilia and Lazio will hide in the Cosmos' steam!
STEAM SAUNA Via Ferrarese 22/i - 40128 Bologna Tel: 051.363953 steamsauna@hotmail.com - Ingresso con tessera Arci. Sauna finlandese, bagno turco, idromassaggio, camerini relax, sala video, sala lettura, bar. Mooolto più carina, attuale e pulita rispetto alle 2 già esistenti, questa sauna non ha mancato di attirare l’ attenzione di orsi e orsofili locali; un must il sabato e soprattutto la domenica pomeriggio quando dozzine di bononi pelosoni si riversano qui come se piovesse.
(grazie Davide per la segnalazione!) New Vigor Sauna via S. Felice 6b - phone 051 - 232507 - It's one more Bologna sauna, intended for the ones who can't avoid loving other kinds of humans..
There are even bears, anyway, looking for muscular men or maybe young crazy and skinny dicaprios... AAArgh!
Via Polese 47/c - phone 051-243998 - close to the station the disco is open up to dawn in the weekends. The place is small, but downstairs there are two floors for two darkrooms. Lots of furry and bearish guys...
PARCHEGGIO MANIFATTURA TABACCHI - (dalla Tangenziale Uscita 7 direz. Centro): è confidenzialmente denominato la “Depandance di Zio Michele” perchè si presenta come una sorta di appendice al più famoso parcheggio di via del Michelino, dove comunque avvengono anche scambi di coppie e di conseguenza si rischia di essere snobbati per una TRANS!!! La Depandance è gay al 100%, dotata di spazi verdi full optional per eventuali passeggiate a piedi e soprattutto offre qualitativamente un range faunistico molto più significativo. Molti orsi anche bbboni! Fateci un salto (thanks Davide!)
Via Albertoni - Gardens... walking area... evening... once people sang "don't bring me in the woods tonight..." and a reason for that song there must have been! Some movement but not that much.
Ponte Reno - leaving Bologna heading to Noce T. di Reno, turn right when you get to the main stop of Bus number 13. Once you pass a decading country-house cross the bridge on the left until you'll see some movement, some action... What kind of actions...? Be smart!
Bar del mercato Only after dark, the bar in front to the... back entrance of the market in Via Ugo Bassi
new Cassero - Via Don Minzoni 18 - 40121 Bologna Tel: 051.6494416 - Fax: 051.6495015 - cassero@cassero.it - sede storica dell’Arcigay Nazionale, ha cambiato location e da gennaio 2002 si è trasferito in un altro edificio storico denominato “La Salara”, altrettanto suggestivo ed estremamente spazioso. Venerdì e sabato le serate più interessanti con pubblico davvero DOC e possibilità di incontrare specie di orsoni da guinness, locali e forestieri: bello! Attenzione: a volte di venerdì ci organizzano anche vere e proprie feste di orsi (“Feed The Bears”) (che verranno segnalate su Sbqr!) Teatro, spettacoli, concerti. Disco nel fine settimana. (Grazie Davide per l aggiornamento
friends wrote: "parking lot close to the Modena Municipium buildings in via A. Costa, in Modena downtown, where from sunset to 1 a.m. you can meet various and interesting ones".
Service Area in Calvetro
friends told us that the Service Area on the highway is a must: "it's just in the middle between Reggio Emilia and Modena, going south, on highway A1. Just try it!"
Cine Adriano
Via Selmi - well-known movie club where the seats on the last rows show much more flesh than those things moving on the xxx rated screen
Fiume Secchia (Secchia River)
You can get there crossing the bridge on the railways for Villanova or from Sassuolo when you get to via Palestro. Let me say that in this river many wet their feet, not only big and furry animals.
Autostrada del Sole (A1 Highway)
There you go with another parking area you should not miss on our love highway! From Bologna to Milan stop to Castelfranco Parking Area.
Via Monte Sporno 16 - Tel: +39- 0521258443 - http://www.hangar6268.it/ - on Saturday "Magnum" bear club events! very crowded, good music. ArciOne card required (you can buy at Hangar 6268 too)
DADAUMPA er IPPOPOTAMUS
via Emilia est - zona S.Lazzaro (Parma) close to the Bowling. They are two discos close to each other, just a few hundred meters... Both are for every taste... young ones... older... there's who looks for young guys and who looks elsewhere... not that muche elegant... you could even find curious non-gay people... the best evenings at DADAUMPA are thursdays and fridays, IPPOPOTAMUS is best visited on thursdays. (Thanks PIPPO!)
Highway heading Bologna
Let's honour the Autostrade spa for another parking area named Fontanellato: during the night it hosts underlying meetings and hidden hugs. Woof!
Taro Beach (Spiaggia del Taro)
Leaving Parma heading to Piacenza, cross the birdge on Taro river and then head to the mountain...
Cine Ritz
Via Venezia 129 - Red light movie, on its screen and among its seats!
Disco Andromeda - SORAGNA
Via Antonio Gramsci 5 - phone 0524-597204 - On love higheway (A1 Highway) take the Fidenza exit and then head to Soragna, a small town near Parma. It's uncertain how it happened but this disco is one of the most successflu, fun and full of italian bears and chubby lovers. And they come all the way from Rome, from Tuscany, from Lombardia. Usually on saturday night they join the Andromeda crowd. Many chances... thematic happenings
Salsomaggiore Thermas
As it happens in any italian thermas you'll get some movement in the restrooms, where all there must go several times every hour, and the night where people walk through the near gardens. Even if the majority of the guys here aren't that young you could have some leasurable meeting with grey bears or their junk-food stuffed overweight younger nephews.
Nudist beach, FKK approved. Very beautiful beach, better than LidoDiClasse, very crowded... Easy to find in Ravenna, follow the street direction to LidoDiDante or FKK and then looking for "Ramazzotti CampGround - CAMPING CLASSE FKK". You can park there. and than walk on the beach (in south direction) - Walk 10 minutes and you'll find the FKK beach (1km) , after this first area for 3 km there is... US! Bear, older, cubs and other gay stuff. Action on the woods near the beach and in the beach too after 7PM
Viale Farini
There you go with streetchatting and endless walking made of eyes crossing to and from each one, waiting for the best to come...
Lido di Classe
Very well-known italian beach and not for its sun! After Ravenna, heading Cervia, you should get to the open beach since Bagno Gogo. A lot of nudism, different kind of humans looking for each other, a small wood, the best to hide and...
Lido di Classe - BAR Calipsho
"Calipsho.. spelled this way.. is a bar/icecreamery in Lido di Classe, gay friendly and in the evenings (in summertime) is full of men, bears, otters and queens.. local people but also italians and international ones... It's a nice place and it's also close to the woods.. (and you may wanna take a careful walk in there..)
RICCIONE
a bear from Rimini suggests us this place: hunting in the parking lot by night, even if it's somehow risky with police checks from time to time (but it's enough not to do "it" right there, then it's ok!).
Discoteca Classic Club
Rimini- Via Feleto 11 - phone 0541-731113 - www.clubclassic.net
- Huge and crowded disco in the midst of the fun factory of Rimini, where it's very easy to meet beard, woofy ones and chasers looking for summer life. I could be wrong but it should be an Arcigay club.
Cine Miramare
via Oliveti 85 - the ideal to refresh after a day under the sun, with the darkness so thick and fleshy of this kind of movies...
Beach - Viale Ceccarini
and right behind the Riccione cabins as a whole... even if since last summer the cabins are going to be overlooked even during the night. too bad! But if they turn the lights off you could take a chance a have a look...
Not right in the crowded Lido delle Nazioni but if you had a chilometer up the beach you'll get some nudism and action, even walking up and down the seaside. Oh, wait! Beach and sea, here, are really fucked up!