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Ferrara ([ferˈraːra] listen (help·info); Emilian: Frara) is a town and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. In 2016 it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated 44 kilometres (27 miles) northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km (3 miles) north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Restaurants in Ferrara
1. Macelleria Paltrinieri Umberto
2. La Linea dell'arte & delle Carte
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5.0 based on 15 reviews
The workshop was founded in 1998 to propose objects created with handmade paper: personalized photo albums, ornaments, invitations, wedding favors.Privilege of collage and painting techniques, to make our unique and artistic objects, proposing at the same time, ideas and materials that act as incentives to creativity of our customers.We also make technical courses in creativeLa bottega artigiana Delle Carte, di Augusta Calzolari, è nata nel 1998 per proporre oggetti creati con carte fatte a mano: album fotografici personalizzati, oggetti d'arredo, partecipazioni, bomboniere.Privilegiamo tecniche pittoriche e di collage, per rendere i nostri oggetti pezzi unici e artistici, proponendo, contemporaneamente, idee e materiali che siano di stimolo alla creatività della nostra clientela.Realizziamo anche corsi di tecniche creative
3. BAUtique!
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
Love, Luxury & Glam 4 pets.Come and visit our pet boutique. You will find a large selection of high quality pet clothing and accessories from Italy and from all over the world for your loved four legged companion.
4. Storie di Te e Caffe
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5.0 based on 31 reviews
5. CLOISTER Art Gallery
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
SUPPORT THE NO PROFIT ASSOCIATION Choose the association level that best suits you SUPPORTING € 45.00 Annual benefits for one person include: - Unlimited entry - Access to the inaugurations - 10% discount at the CLOISTER Shop CIRCLE € 100.00 Annual benefits for one person include: - Unlimited entry - Access to the inaugurations - An original multiple of author - Last Look with the artist - Aperitif for Christmas greetings - 10% discount at the Enoteca-Cafe - 10% discount at the CLOISTER Shop YOUNG € 10,00 (Please note that the age range for this group is 18–26) Annual benefits for one person include: - Unlimited entry TOURIST € 10,00 Annual benefits for one person include: - Unlimited entry
6. Birra Mitica
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5.0 based on 13 reviews
Birra Mitica produces high quality craft beer in its brewery in Ferrara. Our beers are crafted with carefully selected products.
7. Palazzo dei Diamanti
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4.5 based on 1,766 reviews
The Palazzo dei Diamanti is a venue belonging to the city of Ferrara where exhibitions of international importance are held, thereby contributing to the city’s reputation as a centre of art and culture. These exhibitions are organized jointly by Fondazione Ferrara Arte, Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Ferrara and the Settore Attivita Culturali of the Comune di Ferrara.
Reviewed By Brun066 - Florence, Italy
My appreciation for the "Palazzo dei Diamanti" comes from three main reasons. Firstly this palace, with its diamond point bosses (hence the name), is to be considered one of the most beautiful of the Italian Renaissance. Secondly, it can even be considered a symbol of Ferrara, which from this point of view could even overstretch the Estense Castle. I try to justify my statement; and I will devote most of my review to this goal. The palace is suitable to symbolize Ferrara not only and not so much for its intrinsic beauty, but because it reveals the way that the architect Biagio Rossetti followed, between 1492 and 1505, to create the so-called "Addizione Erculea" . This is the name of the operation by which Rossetti (on behalf of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara) in fact doubled the size of once medieval Ferrara, creating new city north of the existing one, and organizing it with a gridiron of streets. The similarity of this gridiron with the orthogonal plan cities created in the Hellenic world on the model of Hippodamus by Miletus, or with the cities founded or re-founded by the Romans, or finally with the "Terre Nuove" (new settlements; cities founded from scratch) spread throughout Europe in the second part of the Middle Ages, must not deceive: according to scholars (and in particular to the historian Bruno Zevi, 1918-2000), it's only in the case of Ferrara that the city sees the orthogonal plan organized regardless of the needs of immediate expansion; so that the inhabitants of sixteenth century Ferrara will call it not "Terra Nuova", but "Aria Nuova" (new air), to indicate that the new city consists precisely of air, and not of buildings. The gridiron exists, the buildings will then come. To safeguard the cornerstones of its urban creation, however, and to prevent them from being distorted in the future, Rossetti "blocks" some fundamental intersections and squares, immediately edifying a few but strategic buildings. One of these (and the most illustrious) is Palazzo dei Diamanti, which is therefore established as the cornerstone of what Zevi calls "the first operation of modern urban planning in Europe". The third reason for my appreciation stems from the quality of the artistic exhibitions that have been held in the building since many years. Right now, the exhibition of the painter Giuseppe De Nittis is in progress (and I have just visited it), an Italian who lived mainly in Paris. In past years, I have been able to admire the exhibitions on Joan Mirò (2008), on Joseph Turner and Italy (2008-2009), on Jean Simeon Chardin (2010-2011), on Francisco de Zurbaràn (2013-2014). They were all excellent exhibitions, which honored the city of Ferrara.
8. Gelateria degli Angeli
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4.5 based on 183 reviews
9. MLB home gallery
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4.5 based on 8 reviews
MLB is a hybrid space, an unusual place to meet contemporary art curated by Maria Livia Brunelli, critic of art. It is located in a 15th century building in the heart of Ferrara, a charming town in Northern Italy near Bologna. The gallery is in the very centre of the town and nearby two Italian Renaissance landmarks– the Castello Estense and the Palazzo dei Diamanti.MLB exhibitions are organized parallel to the exhibitions held in the Palazzo dei Diamanti, a renowned site for art exhibitions (just a few hundred meters from the gallery) in order to inspire and attract visitors.
10. Ferrara Store
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4.5 based on 60 reviews
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