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Ravenna in half a day
Ravenna in half a day
Ravenna in half a day

Ravenna in half a day

By Cinzia Tittarelli
7.4 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$226 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

You can visit Ravenna even in half a day: this will be enough to know its culture and history and to realise how this town is rich in architecture and art by the knowledge of the different religions that during the past strongly influenced all the mosaics decorations and its buildings.

Activity location

  • Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    • Via di Roma 52,
    • 48121, Ravenna, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    • 53 Via di Roma
    • 48020, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Ravenna in half a day in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • Opening hours: Tue 9:00 am-7:00 pm
  • English
Price details
AU$226.05 x 1 TravellerAU$226.05
Total
Price is AU$226.05

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAdmission fees to monuments

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
Our tour will start from the Church of Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo and after walking in Piazza Del Popolo the main square and Dante’s tomb area will end at the Basilica of San Vitale. (first half VI cent.). All the monuments involved in our tour are in the city centre – walking area where we can also also drink a good coffee! Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (end V cent.) is in Via di Roma near the railway station. This area is very quiet. The external of the church is very simple but inside you can find beautiful mosaics decorations of Justinianean age (Catholic) and the age of Theodoric (Arian faith) . In fact this church has been defined the “church for two religions”: we will discover together why. The king Theodoric in fact (454-526) of arian religion commissioned the building of this church at the end of V cent. Mosaics decorations got inspiration from the influence of the greek-roman taste and from Justinian mosaic taste . Consequently it is the most characteristic building concerning the ravennate byzantine art. Mosaics decorations on the walls allow us to follow the evolution from the age of king Theodoric to Justinian one, an important melting port of different cultures and languages.
Dante's tomb and Quadrarco of Braccioforte
  • 20m
From Via di Roma we will go to the city centre to reach the “silent area” : here the famous Italian poet Dante Alighieri lived. This area is dedicated to its memory and cult . His tomb is a simple neo-classical building near St.Francis cloisters and church in which in 1321 Dante’s funerals took place.
Battistero Neoniano (Battistero degli Ortodossi)
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
Next monument of our tour will be the Battistero Neoniano (beg.V cent.) from bishop Neon who got the baptistery decorated with the mosaics of the dome. It is situated near the actual cathedral and it is richly decorated with stuccos, inlays of polychrome marbles and mosaics: different techniques integrated themselves perfectly to give life to an extraordinary united and harmonic complex.
Basilica di San Vitale
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
After the visit to the Baptistery we will reach the basilica of San Vitale (VI cent.) the byzantine monument “par excellence” . The church has a central octagonal plan and its wonderful panels that represent the emperor Justinian with its suite and the empress Theodora, his wife, are famous all over the world. Both the scenes as well as their artistic value have a documentary one really extraordinary. From them in fact we can deduce the splendour of the byzantine court.
Mausoleo di Galla Placidia
  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Going out of the basilica we go towards the mausoleum of the roman empress Galla Placidia. It was built within the first half of the Vth cent. probably by Galla Placidia. It is a little construction but on entering you will be impressed by the magnificence of the decorations and of the mosaic scenes, especially by the unreal atmosphere in which you find yourselves.The lunette of the Good Shepherd among his flock is one of the most beautiful mosaics of Early Christian Art.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESBasilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    • Via di Roma 52,
    • 48121, Ravenna, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEBasilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    • 53 Via di Roma
    • 48020, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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