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Castell'ArquatoCastell'ArquatoMedieval hill borgo, Rocca Viscontea, collegiate church piazza, Arda valley viewsCastell'Arquato climbs its hill to a piazza where the fortress, collegiate church and podesta's palace have faced each other since the fourteenth century. The Arda valley below grows the Gutturnio the wine bars pour.Pianifica la visita
RavennaUNESCOBasilica di San VitaleJustinian and Theodora mosaics, octagonal Byzantine plan, emerald and gold interior, sixth-century splendorSan Vitale's plain brick hides the most dazzling room of the sixth century, where Justinian and Theodora process in mosaic forever. Its octagon taught Charlemagne's builders what an imperial chapel should be.
ModenaUNESCODuomo di ModenaRomanesque masterwork of Lanfranco and Wiligelmo, Genesis reliefs, Ghirlandina tower, Piazza Grande ensembleArchitect Lanfranco and sculptor Wiligelmo signed Europe's purest Romanesque cathedral in 1099, a partnership the stones record by name. Wiligelmo's Genesis reliefs read like carved cinema across the facade, under the leaning Ghirlandina tower.
RavennaUNESCOMausoleo di Galla PlacidiaOldest mosaics in Ravenna, starred indigo vault, alabaster light, Cole Porter's Night and Day legendA small brick cross shelters Ravenna's oldest and most intimate mosaics, a vault of gold stars on deepest blue. Light filters through alabaster panes onto the empress's empty sarcophagi, and visitors whisper without being asked.
RavennaUNESCOBasilica di Sant'Apollinare NuovoProcessions of martyrs and virgins, Theodoric's palace church, twenty-six Christ scenes, nave-length mosaicsTwo mosaic processions run the full nave, virgins on one side and martyrs on the other, walking toward Christ and the Virgin since the sixth century. Theodoric built it beside his palace, and the mosaics remember his erased courtiers as curtained columns.
ModenaUNESCOTorre GhirlandinaModena's leaning campanile, stolen bucket legend, 86-meter climb, garland spireModena's bell tower leans gently and guards a wooden bucket stolen from Bologna in 1325, a war trophy that inspired a mock epic. The climb passes the bell chamber to a balcony over Piazza Grande's marble.
ParmaDuomo e Battistero di ParmaCorreggio's dome ascension, Antelami's pink baptistery, Romanesque ensemble, Benedetto's DepositionCorreggio dissolved Parma's cathedral dome into a spiral of ascending sky that scandalized, then converted, all of Europe. Beside it, Antelami's octagonal baptistery in pink Verona marble is Italy's most harmonious room of the Middle Ages.
RiminiTempio MalatestianoAlberti's Renaissance facade, Sigismondo's pagan church, Piero della Francesca fresco, Giotto crucifixSigismondo Malatesta had Alberti wrap a Gothic church in the first Renaissance facade, a temple as much to himself as to God. Inside are Giotto's crucifix and Piero della Francesca's portrait of the kneeling tyrant.
FerraraUNESCOCastello EstenseMoated castle in the city center, Este dynasty seat, dungeon of Ugo and Parisina, hanging orange gardenThe Este raised a full moated castle in the middle of their city after a tax revolt, and the drawbridges still work. Court splendor upstairs and dungeons below tell the dynasty's double story, Browning's duchess included.
CesenaGemma nascostaBiblioteca MalatestianaThe first civic library in Europe open to the public, built 1447-1452 with its original Renaissance architecture, furnishings and manuscripts intact, inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005.
BobbioGemma nascostaAbbazia di San ColombanoA monastery founded in 614 by the Irish Saint Columbanus that became one of the greatest libraries of the Middle Ages; visitors see the basilica, the crypt with Columbanus's sarcophagus and a medieval mosaic, plus the Museo dell'Abbazia.
BolognaPiazza MaggioreSan Petronio's unfinished facade, Neptune fountain, crescentone gatherings, civic palacesBologna debates, protests and screens summer films on this square, as it has gathered here for seven centuries. San Petronio's half-clad facade presides, its marble abandoned mid-thought when papal funds moved elsewhere.
MaranelloMuseo FerrariFerrari's home town shrine, Formula 1 hall, rosso corsa icons, engine soundtracksMaranello is where Ferrari builds its cars, and the museum beside the factory tells the story in rosso corsa. Formula 1 winners line the halls, and the simulators let visitors embarrass themselves at Monza.
LanghiranoGemma nascostaCastello di TorrechiaraA well-preserved 15th-century fortress-residence (1448-1460) overlooking the Parma valley near Langhirano, state-owned and open to the public under the Emilia-Romagna regional museum authority.
Castell'ArquatoGemma nascostaScavi archeologici di VelleiaThe excavated ruins of an ancient Roman town about 15 km south of Piacenza, an archaeological park famous for the Tabula alimentaria, a bronze tablet recording Trajan's welfare endowment.
ModenaMuseo Enzo FerrariYellow car-hood pavilion by Future Systems, Enzo's birthplace workshop, Modena's racing heritage, rotating supercar exhibitionsEnzo Ferrari was born in the brick workshop that still stands beside the museum's sweeping yellow pavilion, its aluminum roof shaped like a car hood. Inside, rotating exhibitions set Modena's racing century around the cars themselves, lacquered and lit like sculpture.
Sant'Arcangelo di RomagnaGemma nascostaForte di San LeoA cliff-top fortress rebuilt in 1441 by Francesco di Giorgio Martini for Federico da Montefeltro, now a museum and arms gallery, best known as the prison where the occultist Count Cagliostro died.
BolognaLe Due TorriAsinelli and Garisenda, leaning medieval pair, 498-step climb, family tower rivalryOf Bologna's hundred medieval towers, the Asinelli and its drunken partner Garisenda remain the city's signature. Dante cited the Garisenda's lean, and the Asinelli's 498 steps still buy the best view of the red rooftops.
PiacenzaGemma nascostaGalleria d'arte moderna Ricci OddiA modern-art museum opened in 1931 with around 400 works, drawing only ~9,000 visitors a year, best known for Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady', stolen in 1997 and rediscovered in 2019 inside a trapdoor in the gallery's own wall.
FaenzaMuseo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in FaenzaWorld capital of maiolica, Picasso and Chagall ceramics, faience namesake town, six centuries of glazeFaenza gave faience its name, and its museum holds the world's deepest collection of the art, from Renaissance maiolica to Picasso's plates. The town's workshops still fire and paint by hand.
BolognaUNESCOPortico di San LucaLongest portico on earth, 666 arches uphill, sanctuary pilgrimage, annual Madonna descentThe world's longest portico climbs from the city gate to the sanctuary of San Luca through 666 arches. Bolognese walk it for fitness, penance or the view, and the Madonna comes down it in procession each May.
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