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Discover Ferrara city centre 20% OFF
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
$108.56
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Overview
The private walking tour of Ferrara highlights the city's rich history and architectural beauty. This tour showcases why Ferrara is regarded as the first modern city in Europe.
- 🏰 Visit the iconic Castello Estense, a majestic fortress complete with a moat, originally built in 1385 for the Este family and later transformed into their residence.
- 🛤️ Walk along Corso della Giovecca, where the city expanded under Duke Ercole I's vision, making Ferrara a pioneering example of modern urban planning.
- 📜 Admire the Statua di Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza Savonarola, a tribute to the famous reformer born in Ferrara, known for his impactful preaching and controversial ideas.
- ⛪ Explore Piazza Cattedrale, offering stunning views of the St. George cathedral's façade, which acts as a 'poor man's bible' with its intricate reliefs.
- 🏛️ Marvel at the Ferrara Cathedral, a striking Romanesque-Gothic structure featuring a tripartite façade adorned with a canopy depicting the Last Judgement.
- 🌆 Discover Piazza del Municipio, a spacious square that was once part of the Este's ducal palace, highlighted by its impressive white marble staircase.
- 🌳 Experience the vibrant atmosphere of Piazza Trento e Trieste, the heart of Ferrara where historical power structures converge around the cathedral and former governmental buildings.
- 🛒 Stroll down Via San Romano, the medieval main street lined with charming porched houses that connects the market square to the port area.
- 🏘️ Wander through Via delle Volte, a picturesque medieval street featuring overhead passageways and beautifully preserved buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries.
- 🕍 Explore the Ghetto Ebraico, a hidden part of Ferrara's soul, where you can walk through the historic streets and appreciate the Jewish community's rich heritage.
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Discover Ferrara city centre
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours
- Professional guide
- Private tour
- Transportation to/from attractions
Meeting point
Tour departs from Palazzo Dei diamanti. The guide will wait for you close to the palace entrance door
Return details
Tour ends in front of the Cathedral of Ferrara at Piazza della Cattedrale
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Castello EstenseComplete with moat Ferrara's towering castle was commissioned by the Este family in 1385. Initially it was intended to protect the Este family from the town's irate citizenry, who were up in arms over tax increases, but in the late 15th century it became the family's permanent residence. Linked to the castle by an elevated passageway, the 13th-century Palazzo Municipale was the Este family home until they moved next door to the castle.The visit of the castle interior is not included in this tour
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Corso della GioveccaThroughout the Middle Ages and almost to the end of the 15th Century, the northern boundary of the city ran along the current road System of Viale Cavour-Corso Giovecca. In 1492 Ercole I commissioned to include this vast area in the centre (thus doubling the surface area of the city) and the great architect and town-planner, Biagio Rossetti, designed a plan which, due to its original and rational nature, made Ferrara the first modern city in Europe. In honour of the Duke who ordered the new town planning this great district is known as Addizione Erculea.
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Statua di Girolamo SavonarolaBetween the castle and the town hall is Piazza Savonarola, dominated by the monument to Girolamo Savonarola, the famous reformer born in Ferrara in 1452 at the origin of the theocratic dictatorship of Florence (1494-1498). It was also he who had the idea of the pyre of vanities in which books and important works of art disappeared. He is represented here with his arms raised in the midst of preaching. The square is bordered to the west by Via Coperta, a five-arch building that connected the two Este family residences (the castle and the town hall)
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Piazza CattedraleThe Piazza Cattedrale lies between today's town hall, former Este's residence, and the St. George cathedral. From the square you can have a beautiful view of the cathedral facade and its reliefs, a sort of poor man's bible
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Ferrara CathedralThis Cathedral in the Romanesque-Gothic Lombard style has a beautiful tripartite façade endowed with a magnificent canopy (over the door), decorated with a depiction of the Last judgement.
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Piazza del MunicipioPiazza del Municipio can be accessed directly from the cathedral square, passing through an imposing arch. The wide square, one of the former inner courtyards of the Este's ducal palace, is characterized by a staircase completely covered with white marble, finished in 1481.
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Piazza Trento e TriesteThe piazza Trento Trieste is the beating heart of the city. It dates back to the Middle Ages and the building of the new cathedral around which the seats of religious, civil and lordly power, in the shape of the family who in fact ruled Ferrara, were concentrated. Indeed, all the city's seats of power were sited in the piazza: as well as the cathedral, there was the bishops' house where the present Bishops Palace stands; the Palazzo della Ragione, the Notary's Lodge, the first nucleus of the Palazzo Ducale, today's Palazzo Municipale. Along the south side of the Cathedral runs the loggia dei Merciai. Also looking on to the piazza is the ex-church of San Romano, now home to a museum.
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Via San RomanoThis commercial thoroughfare, the medieval town's main street, which once connected the market square (piazza Trento e Trieste) with the port of Ferrara (now replaced by the Via Ripagrande) is bordered by porched medieval houses.
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Via delle VolteThis charming medieval street marks the axis along which the so-called linear Ferrara developed between the 7th and 9th centuries A.D. and which greatly influenced the further development of the entire city. In Via delle Volte the architectural solution to development in a third dimension was to create overhead passageways: the vaults dotted along the street, to connect the warehouses on the banks of the river to the workshops-houses towards the centre. Here you can enjoy the atmosphere of its 14th and 15th-century buildings and the alleys that lead off it
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Ghetto EbraicoThere is hidden soul to Ferrara, its Jewish one, an important part of the city's community. Through the streets of the Ghetto. The area involved in the former Ghetto, institued in the17th Century, is constituted by today's Via Mazzini, Via Vittoria and Via Vignatagliata and Piazzetta Lampronti where, in the courtyards, the secret passageways, and on the evocative balconies, you can breathe in the intense life of the Ghetto
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Discover Ferrara city centre 20% OFF
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
$108.56
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they redeem the gift voucher.
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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