Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Ferrara, Italy

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 6.7 km
Ascend 48 m
Descend 42 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: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione

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The church of Santa Maria della Consolazione is a Renaissance religious building, designed by Biagio Rossetti, which is located in Ferrara in via Mortara 94.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione (Ferrara) (IT)

793 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Museo Boldini

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The Museo Giovanni Boldini is a biographical museum, located in the Palazzo Massari, in Ferrara, dedicated to Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. It is one of the three museums located in the palace, being the others the Museo dell'Ottocento and the Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea Filippo de Pisis. The current museum has been closed for restoration work since the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes.

Wikipedia: Museo Giovanni Boldini (EN)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Palazzo di Giulio d'Este

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The Palazzo di Giulio d'Este is a palace located on Corso Ercole I d'Este #16 in Ferrara, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Giulio d’Este (EN)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Michele del Gesù

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The church of Gesù is located in Ferrara, in via Borgoleoni 56.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Michele del Gesù (IT)

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di San Carlo

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San Carlo Borromeo is a Baroque, Roman Catholic church located on Corso Giovecca #191, a block east of the Castello Estense in Ferrara, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Carlo Borromeo, Ferrara (EN)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Ferrara

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Ferrara Massimo Baraldi / CC BY 2.5 it

Ferrara is a city and comune (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. As of 2016, it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated 44 kilometres northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Ferrara (EN)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di San Domenico

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Chiesa di San Domenico

The church of San Domenico di Ferrara is located in Piazza Sacrati 10. Due to the 2012 Emilia earthquake it is not accessible. On May 3, 2018 the roof was partially collapsed, fortunately without any injuries.

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

396 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi

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Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi

The church of Santa Maria dei Servi is a church in Ferrara located in Via Cosmè Tura at the corner of Via Contrada della Rosa, belonging to the architectural complex of the former convent of the Ursuline nuns.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi (Ferrara) (IT)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Santa Lucia

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The church of Santa Lucia is a place of worship that dates back to the sixteenth century and is located in Via Ariosto in Ferrara.

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

809 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 10: National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah

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The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) is a public history museum in Ferrara, Italy. It opened in 2017, and traces the history of the Jewish people in Italy starting from the Roman empire through the Holocaust of the 20th century. Chartered by the Italian government in 2003, MEIS contains over 200 artifacts and exhibits that proceed chronologically through the periods of Jewish history in Italy. The museum is continuing to expand through the year 2021.

Wikipedia: Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (EN)

504 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di San Paolo

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Chiesa di San Paolo

The Church of San Paolo in Ferrara is located on corso Porta Reno 60, a few blocks south of the Ferrara Cathedral, facing piazzetta Alberto Schiatti. It is considered the pantheon for famous citizens of the city.

Wikipedia: San Paolo, Ferrara (EN)

215 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Torre della Vittoria

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Torre della Vittoria

The Torre della Vittoria is a historical building in Ferrara that complements the Palazzo Municipale and at the same time stands apart from it in terms of its size, its reconstruction centuries after the fall of the tower previously located in the same position, and the celebrations that explicitly referred to it in Fascist-era films. It is located on the corner of Piazza Trento e Trieste and Via Cortevecchia, at the beginning of Corso Martiri della Libertà.

Wikipedia: Torre della Vittoria (EN)

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Cattedrale di San Giorgio Martire

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Cattedrale di San Giorgio Martire No machine-readable author provided. Herbert Ortner assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY 2.5

Ferrara Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in Ferrara, Northern Italy. Dedicated to Saint George, the patron saint of the city, it is the seat of the Archbishop of Ferrara and the largest religious building in the city.

Wikipedia: Ferrara Cathedral (EN)

509 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di Sant'agnese

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The church of Sant'Agnese is a Catholic building in Ferrara located in via del Carbone on the corner with via delle Scienze.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Agnese (Ferrara) (IT)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa dei Santi Giuseppe, Rita e Tecla

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Chiesa dei Santi Giuseppe, Rita e TeclaAndrea Zattini (photomerge), Oliver Forghieri / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of Saints Joseph, Thecla and Rita is a seventeenth-century church in Ferrara, Italy, located in Via Carlo Mayr.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Giuseppe, Tecla e Rita (IT)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno

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The church of San Gregorio Magno is a Roman Catholic church in Ferrara located on the corner of Via Cammello, Via Carmelino and Vicolo del Granchio, within the first nucleus of the city's settlement, the Byzantine Castrum.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno (Ferrara) (IT)

86 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate

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The church of Sant'Antonio Abate is a Catholic place of worship located on the corner of Via Saraceno and Via Cavedone in Ferrara.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate (Ferrara) (IT)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Basilica di San Francesco

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San Francesco is a late-Renaissance, Roman Catholic minor basilica church located on via Terranuova in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Francesco, Ferrara (EN)

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa di San Girolamo

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The church of San Girolamo is a Roman Catholic church in Via Savonarola, Ferrara.

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

423 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 20: Palazzo Schifanoia

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Palazzo Schifanoia is a Renaissance palace in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna (Italy) built for the Este family. The name "Schifanoia" is thought to originate from "schivar la noia" meaning literally to "escape from boredom" which describes accurately the original intention of the palazzo and the other villas in close proximity where the Este court relaxed. The highlights of its decorations are the allegorical frescoes with details in tempera by or after Francesco del Cossa and Cosmè Tura, executed ca 1469–70, a unique survival of their time.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Schifanoia (EN)

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