Considering the Rechigi Park Hotel in Modena?
A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Modena:
La Sinagoga by mikey_e
It is fairly common that historic (and modern) synagogues do not open to the public for general tours. The synagogue in Modena is no exception, but it is, nevertheless, quite pretty and a pleasure to photograph from the quiet park off of Via Emilia in which it is located. It was constructed between 1869 and 1873 by Ludovico Maglietta. It contains twelve columns, each one representing a tribe of Israel. The decorations in the interior were completed by Federico Manzini. The synagogue was once the centre of the ghetto, established in 1638, but the annexation of Modena to Italy in 1861 ended official segregation and the destruction of factories in front of the synagogue in 1904 opened its façade to the street. The synagogue suffered light damage in 2003, when a Jordanian national blew up his car packed full of petrol bombs next to the building, thus making this the site of the only suicide attack on Italian soil.
