11 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 several members were tried, that of the Humili, which had a religious character, and finally that of the Knights, formed only by nobles.

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The fortifications of the city of Rovigo are considered emblems of urban historicity and of the Este domination, throughout the medieval period, delineated in turn by the Castle, the towers, the gates and the historic walls, of which it is still difficult to determine a precise date of 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 date back to between 1139-1160 and their completion in the fourteenth century.

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The church of San Zenone is a religious building located in Boara Polesine, a hamlet of Rovigo and a 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, the parish and archpriest's seat, 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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The church of San Bartolomeo, popularly known as San Bortolo, is a religious building open to 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 from the following century.

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The Oratory of the Blessed Virgin of Pompeii, commonly called by the local population Chiesetta delle fosse, 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 joins Via Nazario Sauro and Via Gorizia, Via Piave, Via Fiume and Via Domenico Piva.

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The Teatro Sociale is an Italian opera house located in Rovigo, the capital of the homonymous province of Veneto and the territory of Polesine, overlooking Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi. Designed by the 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 Christian worship of the Catholic Church located in Via Antonio Oroboni in Rovigo, incorporated into the municipal cemetery since the nineteenth century.

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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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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 Cathedral of Rovigo is a church of Rovigo dedicated to Santo Stefano, Pope and Martyr. Entitled to Santo Stefano Papa and martyr, it is the cachecode of the diocese of Adria-Rovigo and is also the parish church. It is Italian national monument.

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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 of Polesine.

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