Interesting church with Santo Stefano's piazza. You navigate within the church and it takes you throughout the building with a number of different churches within different styles. Church is free to enter but is not opened to tourists on Mondays

Fabulously impressive place to visit. It consists of not just one Church but 7 religious dwellings, all in one location. Each dwelling has its own significance. An extremely quiet and spiritual setting away from the hustle and bustle of the main tourist areas. Well worth a visit.

A really set of old church building blended together. Its free (with a donation), has a museum and shop so definitely worth a visit. Its set in a pretty and small piazza. Check timings for entrance as part of it is a working church. Spend the time (1-2 hours) to walk around and take in the history, plus enjoy a coffee in the lovely piazza - before or after.

This is a complex of seven historic churches from various eras, dating back to around the 5th century that cluster into a single basilica at Piazza Santo Stefano. There are various architectural buildings, medieval structures, chapels and cloister that make up the complex. Quite a few points of interest, artworks throughout. You can visit a small museum with old artworks and will find a little gift shop if you want to pick someone up to remember your visit. On the whole, there are some very good church visits you can make in Bologan. Basilica Santo Stefano is one of them, well worth making time to visit when exploring the Piazza Santo Stefano area of the city centre of Bologna.

This is quite a special place - you will sense the devotion even if you are not religious, like me. Wandering through the various churches and chapels, all interlinked, you see a mixture of styles, ages and decoration. The little museum is worth popping into as well. Some of the artwork is beautiful and the architecture itself is fascinating.

I really enjoyed the visit at the Sanctuary of Saint Stephen. It comprises of a multiple churches allocated next to each other dating back to medieval periods. The sanctuary is still in good state. As a visit, it had too much to offer. Will surely recommend this free museum visit in Bologna.

The Basilica and the Santuario Santo Stefano are beautiful. Each part of the building becomes more beautiful, right up to the cloisters. You can imagine Umberto Eco wandering around here and getting inspiration for his book The Name of the Rose, who knows. Much of the building structure seems to have been preserved. The area is very large and so you get a great impression of what monastic life may have been like in the past.