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Favorite thing: Porta Paula is the best preserved and most impressive city gate. It was designed by Giovanni Battista Aleotti and built in 1612. The gate was dedicated to Pope Paul V who was pontiff at that time. During times of Napoleon and French occupation the gate was called Porta Reno.
Updated Jan 10, 2012
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Favorite thing: The historic centre of Ferrara is encircled by the magnificent walls from both medieval and Renaissance times. The city walls are very well preserved and streching in length of nine kilometres around the town. It is one of the most impressive defensive system of the Middle Ages in whole of Italy. Most of the walls were built in the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century during rule of d'Este family. Some wals were added during Papal's rule of the town, in late 16th and 17th centuries.
Once defensive system nowadays is trransformed into a place where locals meeting friends, practicing sports and recreation.
Updated Jan 10, 2012
Favorite thing: It is not so simple to know when a tourist site reopen after a reconstruction because sometimes delays could occur often due to older sites under the one existent.
Anyway I suggest you to keep a contact with Ferrara Tourist Office one week before your stay in Bologna on October.
I found these links:
MAIL: infotur@provincia.fe.it
TELEPHONE: +39 0532 599490
FAX: +39 0532 212266
WEB:http://www.ferraraterraeacqua.it/sito?lang=EN
Hope to be helpful!
Welcome in my Country!
Fabrizio
Written Jul 3, 2010
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Favorite thing: Via Arturo Cassoli is a pleasant street of Ferrara, bordered with trees and providing a bicycle and pedestrian land. It would be a street like many others in this city, if it wasn't for a beautiful house full of flowers.
(to be continued)
Written Jun 5, 2008
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Favorite thing: this is the official web site of Provincia di Ferrara and here inthis map u can find the location of the main Hotel, restaurant and B&b, camping.......
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Written Nov 27, 2006
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Fondest memory: I parked my car quite close to this portal and, had there been no barricades, jackhammers and dusty workmen, might have taken a picture of the whole entrance! As it was, this will have to suffice though it does manage to show some of the finer points of the portal.
Updated Nov 23, 2006
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Favorite thing: In this website u can fidn good info on the main attrections, events, hotel and restaurants, food and more
This is the official touristic web site of the Ferrara Provincia
http://sd2.provincia.fe.it/turismo/tea.nsf/G3HomePage?OpenNavigator&Lang=EN
Written Nov 2, 2006
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Favorite thing: Contemporary architecture of Ferrara fits perfectly into the old core of the town. It almost look alike to the medieval buildings and houses which might be seen in its close surroundings. As far as I have seen it, not many city authorities have planed the new structure of the town with such a care. Well done Ferraresi!
Written Sep 6, 2005
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Favorite thing: Found this very useful website on Ferrara:
http://sd2.provincia.fe.it/Turismo/Tea.nsf/G2HomePage?OpenNavigator&Lang=EN
Written Sep 1, 2005
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Favorite thing: There's a tourist information office in the courtyard of the city hall (Palazzo Municipale) - on the left (I think) as you walk in from the cathedral. This is where I picked up my free map which proved very useful. I believe there's another office in the Castello Estense.
Written Sep 1, 2005
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