Ferrara - A Different Destination For Your Italian Journey




The usual visit to Italy suggests the celebrated cities of Venice, Florence or Rome.

You'll be often lodged in an global resort, usually extremely expensive, and you will likely get an aseptic reception along with a low excellent price ratio. You'll be quite lost in a massive city area with a hefty traffic and you will share your visits to monuments and museums together with mass tourism.

At times it occurs that little is better. You can plan rather to visit Ferrara, a tiny medieval and renaissance town of Emilia Romagna, at the north of Italy.

It's been recently declared a Unesco world heritage site, due to its beautifully preserved ancient urbanistic architecture, superb monuments and artistic treasures and the abundant and diverse surrounding territory.

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In Ferrara and its countryside you can plan your stay at a little hotel, a guesthouse, a bed & breakfast or a farmhouse where you will find a quite inexpensive accommodation and a warm welcome.

In Italy there's lots of magnificent old cities, but Ferrara is something different.

It has not been involved in the frenzied transformation and modernization that led to a lot of Italian cities to loose their individuality and soul. Ferrara isalso, in some way, a universe apart. The ancient city wall, that had previously the purpose to defend the town from hostile military attacks, remains maintained. It prevented Ferrara to develop out of control, and preserved the urbanistic tissue of the city. The early narrow alleys were conserved and the bike remains the most utilized vehicle in town. In fact Ferrara is internationally renowned as the bicycle's city. In the 15th century Ferrara reached its highest development, under the power of the Este family. The Maecenatism of the Dukes of Este has been a Really effective attractant for a Whole Lot of artists, Particularly architects such as Biagio Rossetti, Girolamo da Carpi, Giovanni Battista Aleotti, painters like Piero della Francesca, Francesco del Cossa, Dosso Dossi, Cosme Tura, along with literates such as Torquato Tasso. This offered the stimulation for its accumulation of so many artistic treasures in Ferrara and the development and renaissance transformation of town.

The Cathedral, masterpiece of Nicolò, the glorious and perfectly maintained powerful Ferrara castle, the world famous the "Palazzo dei Diamanti", masterpiece of Biagio Rossetti, with its more than eight million diamond shaped ashlars, and the superb fresco cycle of "the Months" in Schifanoia Palace, masterpiece of the "Officina Ferrarese", an extremely rare renaissance cycle of paintings of profane subject, are only the main attractions of Ferrara. In addition, the surrounding territory is very rich of artistic and naturalistic points of interest, first of all the "Delizie Estensi", ancient country homes of the Este family. The main of these, the Belriguardo Castle, was somewhat Italian Versailles in which the court spent the summer time, and was celebrated by Goethe in his "Italian journey".

The close Delta of the Po River is a valuable naturalistic area, protected under the normal reserve of the "Delta del Po" Park, and is among the best spots in Italy and in Europe for birdwatching with more than 300 different species of birds enrolled.


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