Private Art Tour of Ravenna: Byzantine Mosaics & Hidden Crypts

Highlights

• Exclusive Private Tour
• Byzantine Mosaics
• UNESCO Heritage Ticket

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Basilica di San Vitale

   35min

   We will begin the visit with the church of San Vitale and its mosaics. This is not just the most important byzantine monument in the World, and dut to that a milestone of Unesco heritage, it is a mystic trip as well. It is a trip into the early middle age, and accross a huge book of mosaics and little gems.

2. 2

   Battistero Neoniano (Battistero degli Ortodossi)

   30min

   Another Byzantine pearl, and Unesco site, it is famous for its mixture of marbles, mosaics, and sculptures; a unique ensemble of late Roman, Roman, Persian, Greek, and barbarian art.

3. 3

   Basilica di San Francesco

   25min

   Incredible the surprise, welcoming us, after this full immersion into the mosaic tiles, precious stones covered with glass paste and bright colors, set in the millenary red clay bricks: an underground crypt, subject to flooding due to the subsidence of the soil (a structure that reminds us to the Basilica Cistern of Istambul).

4. 4

   Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

   35min

   a Unesco Heritagem a grat temple of early Christian age, full of mosaics, and art masterpieces.

5. 5

   Archiepiscopal Museum

   30min

   Visit to this great Museum, its huge collection of Roman, Byzantine, Barbarian and early middle ages manufacts, moreover an ark consisting of a wooden armor completely covered with finely carved ivory, represents one of the most precious artistic testimonies of the ancient world.

6. 6

   Mausoleo di Galla Placidia

   30min

   our last Unesco site of this great tour, a tomb of the sister of the Byzantine Emperor Onorio. The light filters accross the alabaster glasses, the golden atmosphere spread out all around the inner walls and domes. The ellenistic, the greek, and the persian iconographies tell a story dating many thousands years ago, when the Mediterranean Sea was a unique closed and interconnected basin, and a craddle of several wealthy civilizations.

Before you go

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