Private Day Tour of Ravenna and Ferrara

Sightseeing  :  Italy  :  Emilia-Romagna  :  Ferrara  :  City Tours

This private, full day tour will start from Ravenna with visits to the old town where monuments like the Basilica of San Vitale, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Piazza del Popolo, St Francis' Crypt, the tomb of Dante Alighieri and the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo can be enjoyed. In the afternoon the tour will move to Ferrara and include the exterior of the imposing Castello Estense, the majestic Romanesque cathedral and the streets of the medieval and renaissance historical city center. 1600 years ago Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire, it was capital of the Kingdom of Italy, a key town in the history of the Western world and beyond. Ravenna retaines 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 a millenary history which, starting 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.