Tourist guide of Italy
Ravenna

museums and galleries  cathedrals and churches  buildings and historical squares  monuments  
 

To only 8 km. of the Adriatic Sea, to the northwest of Emilia's region Romagna, Rávena is nowadays an important meeting center for the chemical industries and petrochemicalses as well as for the good music's lovers.

 
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useums and galleries
 
  • Loggetta Lombardesca
    • At the moment this building is the headquarters of Pinacoteca Comunale.

  • Museo Nazionale
    • This museum houses archaeological important samples.

  • Museo Arcivescovile
    • The class of Maximiano is the jewel of the collection of this museum.

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athedrals and churches
 
  • Chiesa di San Vitale
    • This church was consecrated in the year 547. It has a cylindrical steeple and a dome that it covers their plant octogonal. Their interior is transparent, marbles and mosaics decorate the walls, while the altar is made of oriental alabaster carried out in the century VI.

  • Duomo
    • It has a cylindrical steeple of the century X and in their interior it highlights the Chapel of Sacramento with fresh of I Quarreled. The Font Neoniano dates of the century V as well as the mosaics of the interior.

  • Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    • It has a cylindrical steeple of the century IX and stupendous mosaics.

  • Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe
    • The construction of this very old church was ordered by a king ostrogodo in the year 520.

  • Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista
    • It highlights for their beautiful steeple.

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uildings and historical squares
 
  • Mausoleo di Gala Placidia e Mausoleo di Teodorico
    • They highlight their beautiful mosaics of the century V.

  • Palazzo Comunale
    • It has battlemented form and it was built in 1681 and reconstructed in the XVIII century.

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onuments
 
  • Tomba di Dante
    • Monument to the Italian great poet consists of a tempers you of 1870 and an ark with the poet's image of Lombard.