Half-day Walking Tour in Ravenna

Sightseeing  :  Italy  :  Emilia-Romagna  :  Ravenna  :  Half-day Tours

Join this half day walking tour of Ravenna (2.30 hours). The monuments that normally fit into half a day are: Basilica of San Vitale, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Piazza del Popolo, St. Francis' crypt, the tomb of Dante Alighieri, Basilica of Sant'Appollinare Nuovo. Entrance fees included in the tour cost.1600 years ago Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire, it was capital of the Kingdom of Italy and was capital of the Exarchate of Italy. A key town in the history of the Western world and beyond. Ravenna retained the lavish testimonials of this glorious past; in fact, the city preserves the richest world heritage of mosaics dating from the 5th and the 6th century a.d., kept within its Paleochristian and Byzantine religious buildings, all Unesco World Heritage sites.
Visiting the historic center on foot or by bicycle is like reliving history which starts from Roman times with its early Christian basilicas, through the Renaissance and comes up to the nineteenth century, when the city was rediscovered by famous visitors such as Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, Lord Byron and Gustav Klimt.
This half-day tour will visit some of the famous monuments of Ravenna. The monuments that normally fit into half a day are: Basilica of San Vitale, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Piazza del Popolo, St. Francis' crypt, the tomb of Dante Alighieri, Basilica of Sant' Appollinare Nuovo.