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Mosaics, yummy local food, less pervasive tourists
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Check opening times - this is a small town!
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Small city with much history well worth a look
63 Reviews There are 13 panels on each wall, depicting Christ’s miracles and parables (the left wall), and the Passion and Resurrection (the right wall). Christ on the left is a young, beardless man, dressed as a Roman Emperor, while Christ on the right has got a beard. In this way the Arians wanted to...
104 Reviews “He thatrelgncthun high, to whom is given all power in heaven and in earth, hath committed the one holy catholic and apostolic Church, out of which there is no salvation, to one only on earth, namely, to Peter, prince of the apostles, and to the Roman pontiff, successor of Peter, to be governed with...
12 Reviews We were all ready to jump into the Adriatic after a day of gazing at the best of Byzantium translated into Italian. The question was, where to do it. In keeping with our dual themes (Etruscans and Dante), we chose to go to the Lido di Dante. It turned out to be just fine. Our particular point of...
9 Reviews “Lord Byron, who preferred Ravenna to all the other towns of Italy, and was influenced in some measure by his intimacy with the Countess Guiccioli, a member of the Gamba family of Ravenna, spent two years here (June, 1819, to October, 1821).” — from‘ Italy: Northern Italy’ 1903, by Karl Baedeker...
1 Review and 195 Opinions I'll never forget trying to find this place. We were driving along, slightly misplaced, when we saw...
Best Western Hotel Bisanzio Ravenna
1 Review and 43 Opinions The Bisanzio is located within a few minutes walk of the old city plaza, and also the shops,...
Fratelli la Bufala: From the Buffalo
von.otter Says: We found this restaurant while searching for another, which was supposed to occupy the same address.For a quick lunch, I had the most wonderful eggplant dish made with buffalo ricotta. The eggplant was perfectly cooked; the ricotta was creamy.
Il Brigantino: Gotta try the Italian pizza!
Bunsch Says: As a devotee of good pizza (see my review of New Haven's finest), I found plenty to like in Italy. Thie versions prepared at Il Brigantino were excellent representatives of the species. I wasn't overwhelmed by the ambience but I wasn't really there for fine dining.
5 Reviews If I were to be accurate, I'd have to check off theater, concert, dance, and live music as the appropriate themes for this tip. For more than twenty years, each June and July, Ravenna has hosted a cultural extravaganza -- often siting the concerts, plays, operas or ballets in the mosaic-rich...
3 Reviews If you go here in summer in 15 minutes with your car you can reach Marina di Ravenna. Every night you can dance in the sea side. There are some little discos too like SANTA FE', I VITELLONI and pubs like XXXX and HOOK (typical for its ship shape!)
7 Reviews Emilia-Romagna region is one of the most active ones in using bicycles! Maybe one of the main factors of bike popularity is that these cities are between Alps and Apennines on the flat land which makes moving by bike comfortable and easy. City bike culture is typical to cities like Modena, Ravenna,...
vysnaite Says: Buses are also quite comfortable to use. You should buy tickets in the places called Tabacchi (also cigarettes and stamps :)). you can buy a single ticket or a ticket depending on the duration of the time, there is a ticket for 75 minutes ride, you can take any buses in the...
Annafietta.it: Contemporary Mosaics
von.otter Says: “Ravenna is a miserable place: the people are barbarous and wild, and their language the most infernal paloii that you can imagine. He would be in every respect better among the Tuscans.”— from a letter, about Lord Byron, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, dated...
il Mercato Coperto: Food market in Ravenna
MM212 Says: Located in a neighbourhood of Ravenna known for its markets since the 5th century AD, il Mercato Coperto is its modern descendant. The construction of a covered market at this site was first completed in 1869, but when enlargement was necessary a few decades later, the...
MM212 Says: For a city with such a large collection of astonishing churches and mausoleums, Ravenna lacks the equivalent in non-religious architecture. Walking around the city one rarely sees grand richly-decorated palazzi as in other Italian cities. Instead, most of the architecture is...
Bunsch Says: Although things tend to cool off at night, if you're an American and used to air conditioning, you may find that it is well worth your while to bring a small battery-powered fan with you, or to purchase a slightly larger fan which has the appropriate plug for Italian...
Bunsch Says: We're all being told to stop and smell the roses. But seldom has a slow amble around an ancient city been so richly rewarded as it was the day I happened to catch sight of some chimneys in Ravenna, immediately next to the Tomb of Galla Placida. Since Ravenna was an ancient...
17 Reviews The Duomo is in the south of the town and, no surprises here, it's located in Piazza Duomo. It has been described as a Baroque hodgepodge and it certainly offers something different to the Byzantine nature of the town generally. Having said that, when you enter and are confronted by what is a...
7 Reviews This basilica was built by Theodoric sometime after 500 AD as an Arian cathedral (in the same era as the Arian Baptistery) dedicated to Christ; it was converted into a Catholic church dedicated to St. Martin around 560. The dedication was changed again in the 9th century to St. Apollinare, first...
5 Reviews visit basilica di San Vitale - inside wonderful breath taking mosaics, dating 6th century. Loved also Gala Placida, small, full of mosaics and sarcofags, but wonderful. Nice Italian style old town with central square, other nice places. Tomba di Dante – Dante’s grave. Mausoleo di Teodorico , guess...
3 Reviews Mausoleum di Galla Placida, San Vitale, San Apollinere in Classe and Nuovo. Watching a 'horse-whipping to music' contest in the main square one evening! And sitting outside the cafe's all afternoon sipping wine or fresh peach juice cocktails.
4 Reviews Purely by chance we happened to arrive in Ravenna at the same time their first mosaic festival was on. Purely by chance (not really, I stick my head into old churches all the time) I walked into this old building and lo, there was a mosaic exhibition. Better still, it was free. Of course, these were...
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Byzantine culture blended with Italian flavour! - If you would like to know what happened to the the water level and why the floor of churches in Ravenna is lifted, where's the best ice-cream and carpet sky, the place from which the sea moved away,...
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Q: We were in Ravenna, Italy earlier this month. There is a park bench made of stone, with a carved coat placed on it and it is near...
A: Hy, it's the Memorial to the former Mayor of Ravenna, Pier Paolo D'Attorre, passed away in 1997 for a cancer at 46. It was designed in 2000 by Mathias Biehler and made...
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Byzantine culture blended with Italian flavour!
If you would like to know what happened to the the water level and why the floor of churches in Ravenna is lifted, where's the best ice-cream and carpet sky, the place from which the sea moved away,...
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When I first heard "Ravenna" I thought about music, dance, opera...not mosaics. Things changed once I actually arrived, and began to experience the incredible flourishing of that particular art form...
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Ravenna is famous for its history, mosaics and eight monumental buildings. The Basilica of St Apollinarus in Classe, the Basilica of St Apollinarus Nuovo, the Basilica of St Vitale (all from the 6th...
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Ravenna's moment of geopolitical superstardon came, and went 14 centuries ago, when Justinian and Theodora, rulers of the Byzantine Empire, made Ravenna the centre of their attempt to restore order to...
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Known as la Città dei Mosaici (the City of Mosaics) Ravenna boasts the best-preserved collection of mosaics from the Paleo-Christian and Byzantine periods. The dazzling mosaics lie mainly within...
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