Ravenna and its Treasures: Private Half-Day Walking Tour

Highlights

• UNESCO Mosaics
• Historic Monuments
• Culture & Atmosphere

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Basilica di San Vitale

   45min

   I will introduce you to the Byzantine art and history showing and describing you the amazing mosaics of the basilica.

2. 2

   Mausoleo di Galla Placidia

   20min

   I will introduce you to the Roman period in Ravenna and you will be completely merged into the mosaics being inspired by the starry sky as Cole Porter who then wrote his famous song Night and Day. Walking in the city center from one monument to the other.

3. 3

   Basilica di San Francesco

   20min

   I will show you the suggestive flooded crypt of the church. Walking in the city center from one monument to the other.

4. 4

   Dante's Tomb

   20min

   I will tell you the story of our great poet Dante Alighieri in Ravenna and all the vicissitudes of his bones in the past centuries.

5. 5

   Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

   45min

   You will discover the Arianism and the chapel of the palace of Theodoric, the King of Ostrogoth, and be amazed by the golden atmosphere of the basilica. Walking in the city center from one monument to the other.

6. 6

   Piazza del Popolo

   10min

   We will pass through the main square having the chance to see the Town Hall and the Venitian columns with the statues of the patrons of the city.

7. 7

   Civic Tower

   10min

   You will see the medieval leaning tower due to the sinking of the ground.

Before you go

Location