Ferrara - A Different Place To Go For Your Italian Journey
The usual visit to Italy proposes the celebrated cities of Venice, Florence or Rome. You'll be often lodged in an global resort, usually extremely costly, and you'll likely receive an aseptic reception and a low excellent price ratio. You'll be very lost in a massive city area using a hefty traffic and you'll share your visits to monuments and museums together with mass tourism. Sometimes it happens that small is better. You can plan rather to visit Ferrara, a tiny medieval and renaissance city of Emilia Romagna, in the north west of Italy.
It's been recently declared a Unesco world heritage site, due to its beautifully preserved ancient urbanistic architecture, superb monuments and artistic treasures and the abundant and varied surrounding land. In Ferrara and its countryside you can plan your stay in a tiny hotel, a guesthouse, a bed & breakfast or a farmhouse where you will discover a quite inexpensive accommodation and a warm welcome. In Italy there is plenty of magnificent old cities, but Ferrara is something different. It hasn't been included in the frantic transformation and modernization that caused lots of Italian towns to loose their individuality and soul. Ferrara isalso, in some way, a world apart. The ancient town wall, which had previously the purpose to defend the city from hostile military attacks, remains preserved. It averted Ferrara to grow out of control, and also maintained the urbanistic tissue of the city. The ancient narrow alleys had been conserved and the bike remains the most used vehicle in town. In reality Ferrara is globally renowned as the bike's city. From the 15th century Ferrara reached its highest growth, under the power of the Este family. The Maecenatism of the Dukes of Este has been a very effective attractant for a Whole Lot of artists, Particularly architects like Biagio Rossetti, Girolamo da Carpi, Giovanni Battista Aleotti, painters such as Piero della Francesca, Francesco del Cossa, Dosso Dossi, Cosme Tura, and literates like Torquato Tasso. This offered the stimulation for the accumulation of so many artistic treasures in Ferrara and the evolution and renaissance transformation of the city. The Cathedral, masterpiece of Nicolò, the magnificent and absolutely preserved powerful Ferrara castle, the world renowned the "Palazzo dei Diamanti", masterpiece of Biagio Rossetti, with its more than eight million diamond shaped ashlars, and also the superb fresco cycle of "the Months" in Schifanoia Palace, masterpiece of the "Officina Ferrarese", a very rare renaissance cycle of paintings of profane subject, are just the main attractions of Ferrara. In addition, the surrounding territory is extremely abundant of artistic and pragmatic factors of attention, first of all the "Delizie Estensi", ancient country residences of the Este family. The main of them, the Belriguardo Castle, was a little Italian Versailles in which the court spent the summertime, and was celebrated by Goethe in his "Italian journey". The close Delta of the Po River is a precious naturalistic region, protected under the normal reserve of the "Delta del Po" Park, and is among the greatest places in Italy and in Europe for birdwatching with more than 300 distinct species of birds registered.
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