Directions
By Plane
Ducati can be easily reached by taxi
from Bologna's
Airport Guglielmo Marconi.
www.bologna-airport.it
The taxi stand is right outside of the arrivals terminal (about 8 € and a
10 minutes ride).
By Car
Bologna is located in the northeast of Italy,
1 hour from Florence, 2 hours from Milan, 2 hours from Venice
and 3.5 hours from Rome
and at the crossroads of all the main Italian motorways (autostrade):
the A14,
A13 and A1.
For directions see Google Maps above.
Ducati (Museum and Factory) is located in Via Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, 3
-
Bologna
GPS: 44.516399,11.267574
/ N 44.30.970 E 11.16.140
By Train
Bologna is a main stop on the Italian rail system and all of the most
important
national and international lines pass through it. Trains depart from
Milan and Rome to Bologna almost every
hour. To get from the Bologna Central Station to the Ducati factory, you
can
either take a taxi (about 15 € and a 20 minutes ride), a bus (1 € bus
ticket and an approximately 40 minute ride) a train or a suburban train
(1 €
ticket and the trip takes about 10 minutes).
Taxi. The taxi stop is
in the small square in front of the station. Ducati is located on Via
Cavalieri
Ducati 3, Borgo Panigale. Tell the taxi driver, sit back and relax.
Bus Get on bus number 36 going towards the "Barca"
or the number 39 that circles the city. From either bus, get off a the
first
stop of Via Lame and change to bus number 13, going towards "Via
Normandia - Borgo Panigale". Get off the bus at the
stop named "Borgo Panigale", at the intersection between via Marco
Emilio
Lepido and Via Cavalieri Ducati. Take Via Ducati (coming from the centre
of Bologna, it is a left
turn) and you will find the entrance to the Company on your right after
approximately
200 metres.
The Suburban train service
(Suburbana) leaves from central station - platform West (binario ovest)
to the
Borgo Panigale station.
By train take the one to
Porretta Terme or Vignola.
When you get off the train in Borgo Panigale, go up
the stairs to the street above you and reach the bus stop. Take bus
number 13 towards
via Normandia and get off at the 3rd stop called "Borgo Panigale",
nearby the
intersection between via Marco Emilio Lepido and Via Cavalieri Ducati.
Take Via
Ducati and you will find the entrance to the comapny on your right after
approximately 200 metres.
For more information regarding train schedules and stations please
check:
www.trenitalia.com
For more information on the Suburban train, visit
www.atc.bo.it or
http://www.suburbanafbv.it/
Museum and factory tours
Guided Museum and factory tours must generally be booked in
advance and are available on the following days at the times shown
below.
From
Monday to Friday:
- 9.15 am
- 11.00 am
- 1.45 pm
- 3.30 pm
A factory and museum tour lasts about 1 hour and a half.
Saturday: guided Museum Tours only.
Tour times
- 10.00 am
- 11.00 am
- 12.00 noon
A museum tour lasts about 30 minutes.
On Saturdays combined Factory and Museum Tours are only available for
DOC - Desmo
Owners Clubs - (min. 10 participants),
and must be booked in advance *.
Please meet us on time in front of the gate. Late arrivals will not be allowed onto
the
company premises.
Closed:
Sundays, Easter holidays (Monday April 9th 2012), during the company's summer break (to be defined), Christmas
(to be defined) and Italian public holidays (25th April, 1st
May, 2nd June, 1st November, 8th December).
TOUR
RESERVATION:
Ducati Museum and factory address:
Ducati Motor Holding, via
Antonio Cavalieri Ducati 3, 40132 Bologna - Italy.
Languages:
The guided tours are available in Italian and English.
Tours
can be made in French, German and Spanish upon availability - please specify under
NOTES on your reservation form.
Prices:
- € 10.00 per person
Full price
- € 8.00 per person
Reduced price 1: groups of more than 11 people Reduced price 2: (a) owners (show your owner card when you purchase
your
ticket), (b) Saturdays, (c) if for some reason the Museum or Factory
are closed for visits between Monday and Friday
- Free
DOC (Desmo Owners Club)*, under 10s, disabled
person + escort
* If you are a DOC member, ask your President for more information about the tour reservation.
Payment
options:
Individuals:
in cash at the Ducati on the day of the tour
Groups:
via bank transfer prior to your visit, after your
booking has
been completed
through the tour reservation service
All proceeds will go to the
Fondazione
Ducati: the association which organises all Ducati's
no-profit activities with passion, professionalism and pride.
The guided tours might undergo variations not dependent on the
reservation service itself.
Access may not be guaranteed for any extra
persons in addition to the number of persons agreed at the time of
booking.
It is strictly
forbidden to take photographs inside the factory.
It is allowed to take photographs in the Museum.
For more informations about the Ducati Museum,
click
here.
The bridge between school and businesses
Fisica in Moto (physics on motorcycles), located at the historical
Ducati factory in Borgo Panigale, is the interactive didactic physics
laboratory dedicated specifically to high school students created
through the collaboration of the Fondazione Ducati together and the
Liceo Malpighi (Malpighi high school) in Bologna.
The purpose of the laboratory is to build a bridge between schools and
businesses through the experience of science and technology museums.
Specifically designed and custom-built interactive machines will be
used inside the laboratory to demonstrate the principles of physics
that students learn at school, as well as phsyics’ relationship with a
Ducati MotoGP bike. The whole course has been developed with the
collaboration of the professors from Bologna’s Malpighi high school and
university lecturers.
Physics teachers at all high schools can use the laboratory from Mondays to Fridays and can book in advance
by clicking here.
For further information about the visits program, please
click here.
If you are not a student and you want to visit our laboratory, please fill this
form.
