12 Sights in Rovigo, Italy (with Map and Images)

The Accademia dei Concordi is a cultural institute in Rovigo established around 1580 starting from the project conceived by Count Gaspare Campo, a great lover of science, literature and the arts. The academy was founded with the intention of bringing together local writers and scholars to discuss literature, music and art. It replaced the previous academies that had sprung up in the city: that of the Sleepers, dissolved in 1562 because it was suspected of heresy and of which several members were tried; that of the Humble, which had a religious character; finally, that of the Knights, formed only by nobles.

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The church of the Beata Vergine del Soccorso, known as La Rotonda, is a religious building located in Rovigo, peculiar for its octagonal architectural shape and for the historical-religious events related to the socio-cultural evolution of the city.

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The fortifications of the city of Rovigo are considered an emblem of urban historicity and of the Este domination, throughout the medieval period, outlined in turn by the Castle, the towers, the gates and the historic walls, of which it is still difficult to determine a precise date at their construction, due to discordant and unreliable news and sources, although they are known to belong to the twelfth century. According to Andrea Nicolio, the works and extensions to the fortifications of Rovigo would be placed between 1139-1160 and their completion in the fourteenth century.

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The Cathedral of Rovigo is a church in Rovigo dedicated to St. Stephen, pope and martyr. Named after St. Stephen Pope and martyr, it is the co-cathedral of the diocese of Adria-Rovigo and is also a parish church. It is an Italian national monument.

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The Teatro Sociale is an Italian opera house located in Rovigo, capital of the province of the same name in Veneto and the Polesine area, overlooking Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi. Designed by the Rovigo architect Sante Baseggio in neoclassical style, it was completed in 1819 and rebuilt on the original model in 1902 due to a serious fire.

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The church of the Santissima Annunziata, known as Santa Maria dei Sabbioni, formerly an oratory, is a religious building open to the Christian worship of the Catholic Church located in via Antonio Oroboni in Rovigo, incorporated since the nineteenth century in the municipal cemetery.

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The church of San Bartolomeo, popularly known as San Bortolo, is a religious building open to the Christian worship of the Catholic Church located in Rovigo in Piazzale San Bortolo adjacent to Via Antonio Oroboni. The structure, one of the rare examples of religious architecture of the sixteenth century in Polesine, integrates some Baroque elements such as stuccoes and frescoes of the following century.

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The oratory of the Blessed Virgin of Pompeii, commonly called by the local population the Church of the Graves, is a small religious building and place of worship dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary erected in Rovigo in the twentieth century and located on the crossroads that connects Via Nazario Sauro and Via Gorizia, Via Piave, Via Fiume and Via Domenico Piva.

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The Museum of the Great Rivers, set up in the rooms of the former Olivetani Monastery in Rovigo, formerly home to the Civic Museum of Civilizations in Polesine, is an archaeological museum that traces 3500 years of the history of the Middle and Upper Polesine territory through innovative and interactive languages. It is part of the network of the Polesine Provincial Museum System and in its name recalls the civilizations of the past, which developed along the banks of the major European rivers. It stands out for the choice of scenographic systems, three-dimensional reconstructions and reproductions of ancient materials that accompany the materials displayed in the showcases to offer a broader view of history, linked to the particular environmental conditions of the land between the last stretches of the Adige and Po, in relation to the great European civilizations.

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The church of San Zenone is a religious building located in Boara Polesine, a hamlet of Rovigo and suppressed municipality, located near the right bank of the Adige river, to which it shows the façade. Dating back to the second half of the eighteenth century, the church, the only place of worship in the town, is according to the territorial subdivision of the Catholic Church, parish seat and archpriest, and preserves some valuable works of art as well as one of the few pipe organs made by Gaetano Callido in the Polesine area.

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Torre Donà is the keep of the castle of Rovigo, one of the symbols of the city and one of the three surviving medieval towers of the town of southern Veneto, as well as the capital of the province of the same name and the Polesine.

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The church of Sant'Apollinare, also known as the minor basilica of Sant'Apollinare Bishop and Martyr, is the parish church of Sant'Apollinare, a hamlet of Rovigo, in the province of Rovigo and diocese of Adria-Rovigo; it is part of the vicariate of Rovigo.

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