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Castello Estense

The castle built in 1385 to protect the Este family, still has the tipycal aspect of a mediaval fortress, even thought the marble balconies and the tower loggias remind us of the trasformations of the XVI century, when the building became the new ducal palace. The Filippi school (XVI century) painted thw inside frescoes

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Cattedrale

The Cathedral, dedicated to the patron saints of the city, George and Maurelius, is a harmonic unity of Rimanesque solidity and exquisite Gothic elegance.

Piazza Cattedrale, - tel. 0532 207449

Teatro Comunale

Designed by Antonio Foschini at the end of the XVIII century, it is famous for the Prose, Ballet, Opera and Concerts Seasons. It is possible to visit il with a guige, on previous arrangement.

Corso Martiri della Libertà?, 5 - tel. 0523 218326

teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Palazzo dei Diamanti

Palazzo dei Diamanti is completely covered whit diamond-shaped stones which make its aspect absolutely unique. In the large rooms on the first floor you can see the collections if the National Picture Gallery while the Galleery? of Modern and Contemporary Art, on the ground floor, houses international art.

Corso Ercole I d'Este, 21 - tel. 0532 205844

Palazzo dei Diamanti

Casa Romei

Casa Romei houses an interesting museum of painting and sculpture, with works of art that come from many places that have now disappeared in Ferrara: in the Lapidary on the ground floor there are marble and brickwork friezes, sculptures, escutcheons and tombstones while on the first floor numerous frescoes removed from former churches can be admired.

Via Savonarola, 30 - tel. 0532 240341

Casa Ludovico Ariosto

The house, probably built to the design of Girolamo da Carpi, has a simple but elegant brick faà?ade. Interior: on the first floor a small museum dedicated to the poet has been laid out.

Via Ariosto, 67 - tel. 0532 244949

Museo della Cattedrale

The Cathedral Museum is sited in the ex-church of San Romano. It forms part of the Civic Museums of Ancient Art and mostly holds objects belonging to the Cathedral.

Via San Romano - tel. 0532 244949

Museo Sant'Antonio in Polesine

Founded in XIV century by Beata Beatrice d'Este. it has chapels with frescoes of the Giotto's and byzantine schools.

Via Gambone - tel. 0532 64068

Sinagoghe e Museo Ebraico

The building odf the Sinagogues also houses the Jewish Museum, rich in documents adnd objects that illustrate the history and traditions of the Jewes of Ferrara.

Via Mazzini, 95 - tel. 0532 210228

Oratorio dell'Annunziata

If keeps the splendid frescoes with the legend of the Holy Cross of the XVI century.

Via Borgo di Sotto, 49 - tel. 0532 741009

Chiesa di San Giorgio

The first Cathedral if the city from the VII century A.D., it was rebuilt by Biagio Rossetti in the XV century.

Piazzale San Giorgio, 29 - tel. 0532 62231

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale

The Museum is organised with an educational scope, offering the visitor an extensive display of mammal, reptile, fish, bird, invertebrate and insect species and specimens covering many branches of the natural sciences, such as zoology (the ornithological collection is especially exhaustive) and entomology.

Via De Pisis, 24 - tel. 0532 244949

Via della Volte

Nella Via delle Volte lo sviluppo in profondità? venne risolto architettonicamente con la creazione di passaggi aerei, gli attuali volti che punteggiano la via, per collegare i magazzini, sulla riva del fiume alle botteghe-abitazioni verso il centro.

Chiesa di San Cristoforo alla Certosa

The Charterhouse, built by Borso d'Este in 1461, was transformed into a monumental cemetery at the beginning of the 1800s and conserves important sculptures.

Via Borso d'Este, 50 - tel. 0532 205619

Palazzina Marfisa d'Este

It is a splendid example of a 16th-century high-class residence and was once surrounded by magnificent gardens that connected it to other buildings, known as Casini di San Silvestro.

Corso Giovecca, 170 - tel. 0532 244949

Palazzo Bonacossi

This palazzo was built in 1468 for an exile from Florence and was redesigned many times. Its most notable feature is the high central tower.

Via Cisterna del follo, 5 tel. 0532 244949

Palazzo Costabili

The work was commissioned to the court architect Biagio Rossetti, who accomplished in it one of his masterpieces. The grandiose building centres around the courtyard of honour, only completed on two sides and adorned with two open galleries in marble.

Via XX Settembre, 124 - tel. 0532 66299

Palazzo Massari

Built at the end of the 1400s, just a few steps away from Piazza Ariostea, with its bright open spaces, Palazzo Bevilacqua-Massari has been converted and extended several times over the centuries.

Corso Porta Mare, 9 - tel. 0532 244949

Palazzo Paradiso

Il Palazzo venne costruito nel 1391, su commissione di Alberto V d'Este, e corredato da un impianto decorativo raffigurante la vita di corte e le vicende dei romanzi cavallereschi.

Via del Paradiso, 1

Palazzo Schifanoia

The visit begins in the oldest wing (14th century) of the palace, where works of art of a various nature, belonging to the collections of the Museum of Schifanoia are exhibited. Thera are neoclassical sculptures and several paintings.

Via Scandiana, 23 tel. 0532 244949

Begun in 1245, the City Hall was the residence of the Este family until the 16th century. The main entrance is through Volto del Cavallo, opposite the Cathedral, and is flanked by two sculptures, copies of the original 15th century ones.

Piazza Municipale, 2