Ferrara
Ferrara, a city of palaces and parks, churches and squares, ideal for walking and filled up with cycling paths. The city retains, in the urban setting of the wide straight streets, the imprint of the Renaissance, and offers a unique succession of winding little ways to access the old medieval quarters. The Este Castle, originally a defensive fortress and residence of the Duke, was the centre of one of the most important middle age courts in Italy, illustrated by the frescoes in Palazzo Schifanoia. On the Cathedral's facade, formerly known as "the open air Bible", appear images and sculptures of rare beauty, while in the nearby old Jewish ghetto you can still perceive the vitality of the shopping center. Behind the walls of the houses and gardens, green open spaces in the squares, expanded up to create, in the north of the city, and urban park of the Po. Ferrara city of art, heritage of humanity. At 35Km south western of Ferrara you will find Cento, a cultural must visit destination especially for the famous paintings of "Guercino", a wordly famous baroque painter of the sixteenth century. Pope Alexander VI gave this land in dowry to his daughter Lucrezia at the wedding with Alfonso I d'Este, but to find its origins you must to be back to the Romans, who sent there "one hundred" men in order to make the fertile land (in Italian the word cento means one hundred).www.ferraraterraeacqua.it
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27/05/2010 New! .jpg) From June 2010 all accommodations, the kids playground and the swimming-pools areas are WiFi connected. | ||
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