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CITIES OF ART - ITALY
Ferrara, Venice, Ravenna...
For those who they want to live a vacation in Italy rich of culture, it is possible to visit towns of art like Venice, Ferrara San Marino and Ravenna which can be reached in short time.
If you want to dedicate just a half day to cultural activity you can visit the well-known Abbey of Pomposa. |
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| COMACCHIO THE SMALL VENICE |
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Comacchio has been for centuries a city amidst the waters, where canals have been used as roads.
Water still very much fashions the town, criss-crossed as it is by a network of canals and bridges connecting its various districts made up of terraced, pastel-coloured houses that conceal entrance halls leading to long corridors opening up to inner courtyards.
The centre is ideal for a pleasant, care-free stroll, leading the visitors to Palazzo Bellini and top the Trepponti.
Close by there's an archaeological museum which exhibits the cargo of a Roman merchant vessel found at Valle Ponti.
Other landmarks are the Torre dell'Orologio, the Loggia del Grano, the Cathedral and the long archway of the Capuchins leading to the historical eel-processing factory, known as the Manifattur dei Marinati and finally to the church of St. Mary in Aula Regia.
Being on the edge of spectacularly beautiful lagoons and wetlands known as “valli” that seem to knock at its door, the town can rightly lay claim to being the unrivalled capital of the Po Delta Park. |
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| ABBEY OF POMPOSA |
The abbey of Pompous is a series of constituent buildings, built by the most famous Benedictine monasteries of the medieval age.
The Basilica, the Refectory, the Capitulation Room and the Court constitute the heart of the abbey. To these it has added, in successive period, the majestic bell tower.
The Benedictines build the abbey in the VII century d.c. Around year 1000 the abbey enjoyed large prestige in the region and the role of the abbot was of great importance. The Benedictines remained until in the beginning of the XVI century, when all the monastery families transferred to Ferrara.
It became private property and therefore became a farm.
After that it was transformed to a State national monument. The complex was visited during the following centuries by varied eminent characters, between which the Barbarossa and Dante Alighieri.
The architecture is a crossing between the roman style and the Byzantine one and you can recognize elements of the school of Ferrara and Bologna in the works of art. |
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| VENICE |
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Venice is a unique town in the world for way it originated: It was built on a hundred islands of the lagoon from 4 km from the mainland to 2 km from the Adriatic Sea.
The historic city centre, connected by channels which can be crossed by over a hundred bridges, is a treasury from artistic and architectural point of view.
The town takes on a' exceptional atmosphere during the phenomenon of deep water, when high tide exceeds the level of the mainland and floods the roads and the main squares of Venice.
For these reasons, Venice is the most visited town in Italy by tourists from all over the world. |
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| SAN MARINO |
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There are a lot of good reasons to visit San Marino.
Millions of visitors come to visit every year; the Republic has become like this not only because it is the smallest State of the world, the most ancient Republic of Europe, but also because the State, in proportion to its residents, accommodates the largest number of visitors.
Millions of visitors visit every year because friends have visited San Marino and stayed very enthusiastic, because is full of an incredible quantity of amusing shops where can be found a lot, if not all, and at a good price.
Because of the tight roads and its Towers upwards is very characteristic; The panorama that can be seen from San Marino is better known an “ natural balcony of Italy” and takes your breath away. Because the boundary is not a hard line, there is no customs office, the tourist won’t realise that they are “abroad” in Italy. |
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| RAVENNA |
Ravenna is a casket of art, history and culture at its purest form.
It is an ancient town with a glorious past and was three times the capital: in the Roman Empire of Occidente, the Teodorico King of the Goths and the Empire of Byzantium in Europe.
In the basilicas and in the baptisteries of the town the richest property of mosaics made by men is preserved from the fifth and to sixth century and eight monuments of Ravenna are introduced in the list of the World Property of UNESCO.
Ravenna was the greater political and cultural centre, but felt the decline of the Latin civility. |
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| FERRARA |
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In 1995 UNESCO classified Ferrara's historic centre as a world heritage list, defining it as “ a fine example of a town planned in the Renaissance that has managed to retain the integrity of its historic centre.
This acknowledgement has been extended to the Po Delta Park and to to the itinerary of the ancient dwellings, called Delizie Estensi. |
The Delta Po is a cultural and planned landscape, which preserves its original layout.
Ferrara is one of the capitals of the Renaissance when the Court of the House of Este leaving in its wake indelible vestiges such as inestimable gardens make it one of the greenest cities in Europe, while cinema, literature, modern art exhibitions and the university are what keep it intensely alive as its inhabitants daily go about on their bikes. |
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