Ferrara - A Different Place To Go For Your Italian Journey

The typical trip to Italy suggests the celebrated cities of Venice, Florence or Rome.

You'll be often lodged in an global hotel, usually extremely expensive, and you will probably get an aseptic reception and a minimal quality price ratio. You'll be very lost in a large city area using a hefty traffic and you'll share your visits to monuments and museums together with mass tourism.

At times it occurs that small is better. You are able to plan instead to visit Ferrara, a tiny medieval and renaissance city of Emilia Romagna, in the north west of Italy.

It has been recently declared a Unesco world heritage site, due to its beautifully preserved ancient urbanistic structure, excellent monuments and artistic treasures and the abundant and diverse surrounding land.

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In Ferrara and its countryside it is possible to plan your stay in a tiny hotel, a guesthouse, a bed & breakfast or a farmhouse where you will find a quite cheap accommodation and a warm welcome.

In Italy there's plenty of magnificent old cities, but Ferrara is something different.

It has not been involved in the frenzied transformation and modernization that caused lots of Italian cities to loose their identity and soul. Ferrara is, in some manner, a universe apart. The ancient city wall, which had previously the purpose to shield the city from hostile army attacks, remains maintained. It prevented Ferrara to grow out of control, and preserved the urbanistic tissue of the city. The ancient narrow alleys had been conserved and the bike remains the most utilized vehicle in the city. In fact Ferrara is globally renowned as the bicycle's city. In the 15th century Ferrara attained its highest growth, under the power of the Este family. The Maecenatism of the Dukes of Este was a Really 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, along with literates like Torquato Tasso. This offered the stimulus for its accumulation of numerous artistic treasures in Ferrara and also the evolution and renaissance transformation of the city.

The Cathedral, masterpiece of Nicolò, the glorious and absolutely preserved powerful Ferrara castle, the world renowned the "Palazzo dei Diamanti", masterpiece of Biagio Rossetti, using its over eight million diamond formed ashlars, along with the excellent fresco cycle of "the Months" at Schifanoia Palace, masterpiece of the "Officina Ferrarese", a very rare renaissance cycle of paintings of profane subject, are only the main attractions of Ferrara. In addition, the surrounding territory is very rich of artistic and naturalistic factors of attention, first of the "Delizie Estensi", historical country residences of the Este family. The main of these, the Belriguardo Castle, was somewhat Italian Versailles in which the courtroom spent the summer time, and was renowned by Goethe in his "Italian journey".

The near Delta of the Po River is a precious naturalistic area, protected beneath the normal reserve of the "Delta del Po" Park, also is among the best places in Italy and in Europe for birdwatching with more than 300 distinct species of birds registered.

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