Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ferrara, Italy

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 5 km
Ascend 41 m
Descend 48 m

Explore Ferrara in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in FerraraIndividual Sights in Ferrara

Sight 1: Acquedotto

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The Ferrara aqueduct is located in Piazza XXIV Maggio.

Wikipedia: Acquedotto di Ferrara (IT)

363 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Ex Caserma Pastrengo

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The former Pastrengo barracks is a monumental building located in Ferrara in Corso Isonzo 28.

Wikipedia: Ex Caserma Pastrengo (Ferrara) (IT)

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di Santa Maria Nuova

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The church of Santa Maria Nuova e San Biagio is a Roman Catholic building in Ferrara, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Nuova (Ferrara) (IT)

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di Santa Giustina

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The former church of Santa Giustina is located in Piazzetta Cortebella and is closed to worship.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Giustina (Ferrara) (IT)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Ex Casa del Fascio

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The former Casa del Fascio in Ferrara is a monumental building dating back to the late twenties, it is located in Ferrara in viale Cavour, at no. 75. It was inaugurated on February 23, 1931.

Wikipedia: Casa del Fascio (Ferrara) (IT)

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Basilica di San Benedetto

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The church of San Benedetto is located in Ferrara in Piazzale San Benedetto.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Benedetto (Ferrara) (IT)

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Casa dell'Ariosto

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The house of Ludovico Ariosto, where the famous poet lived in the last part of his life, is located in Via Ariosto 67 in Ferrara.

Wikipedia: Casa di Ludovico Ariosto (IT)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Maurelio

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The church of San Maurelio Vescovo e Martire or more simply the church of San Maurelio also known as the church of the Capuchins, is located in Corso Biagio Rossetti in Ferrara.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Maurelio Vescovo e Martire (IT)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Pinacoteca Nazionale

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The Pinacotecta Nazionale is an art gallery in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is located on the piano nobile of the Palazzo dei Diamanti, a work of Renaissance architecture by Biagio Rossetti, commissioned by Leonello d’Este in 1447. Not to be confused with the Civic Museum on the lower floor, which has hosted temporary exhibitions of contemporary art since 1992, the Pinacoteca houses a collection of paintings by the Ferrarese School dating from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It was founded in 1836 by the Municipality of Ferrara after Napoleon's widespread dissolution of churches threatened the protection of important public artworks. The gallery is formed as much around notable northern Italian painters as it is around the exquisite interior decoration of the palace itself, together with remnants of frescoes from local churches and later acquisitions from the Sacrati Strozzi collection.

Wikipedia: Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara (EN)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Palazzo dei Diamanti

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Palazzo dei Diamanti

Palazzo dei Diamanti is a Renaissance palace located on Corso Ercole I d'Este 21 in Ferrara, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The main floor of the Palace houses the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara.

Wikipedia: Palazzo dei Diamanti (EN)

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati

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Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati is a Renaissance-style palace located on Corso Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The palace with its protruding marble portal and balcony, and with a corner balcony and pilaster on the corner with Corso Biagio Rossetti, was designed and built in 1493-1498 by Biagio Rossetti as part of the Addizione Erculea. It is flanked on the ground floor by marble pilasters. It is across the Corso Rossetti from the lateral facade of the Palazzo dei Diamanti.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati (EN)

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

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The Pavilion of Contemporary Art, also known by the acronym PAC, is a museum in Ferrara located in Corso Porta Mare n. 5 and used as a venue for contemporary art exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Padiglione d'arte contemporanea (IT)

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Parco Massari

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Massari Park is the largest and best-known public park in Ferrara within the city walls.

Wikipedia: Parco Massari (IT), Website

760 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 14: Tempio di San Cristoforo alla Certosa

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The church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa is located in Ferrara in Piazza Borso d'Este 50, an integral part of the monumental cemetery of the Certosa di Ferrara.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Cristoforo alla Certosa (IT)

469 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Cimitero della Certosa

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Cimitero della Certosa Pramzan / CC BY-SA 3.0

Ferrara Charterhouse, of which the present Church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa was previously the monastic church, is a former charterhouse or Carthusian monastery built in Renaissance style, located on Piazza Borso 50 in Ferrara, Region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The monastery was suppressed in the time of Napoleon, but the church was reconsecrated in 1813 and remains in use. The site also accommodates a large municipal cemetery, which was established in 1813.

Wikipedia: Ferrara Charterhouse (EN)

877 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: Porta degli Angeli

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The Porta degli Angeli is a watchtower that later also served as the gate of Ferrara along the northern walls of the city.

Wikipedia: Porta degli Angeli (IT)

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