Ferrara Italy • Ferrara Tour Including the Castello Estense in Ferrara Italia
Ferrara Italy Tour Including the Castello Estense in Ferrara Italia. We tour of the Renaissance city of Ferrara, including the 14thC Estense Castle with its moat, drawbridges, marble balconies and sumptuous apartments, and the Schifanoia Palace with its fabulous 15thC frescoes. We also see the cathedral façade with its sculpted images described as an Illustrated Bible.
Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, has a rich cultural heritage with renowned artists, writers, musicians and scientists all leaving their mark. In the 15th and 16th centuries Ferrara became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance. One of Ferrara's most famous university graduates is Nicolaus Copernicus (1503).
The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the 14th and 15th century when it hosted the court of the House of Este. The town is still surrounded by more than 5 miles of ancient walls, mainly built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Together with those of Lucca, they are the best preserved Renaissance walls in Italy.
The origin of Ferrara is uncertain. It was probably settled by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of the Po River. Ferrara first appears in a document of 753 AD.
The House of Este settled in Ferrara in the 12th century and for four centuries Ferrara was the uninterrupted seat of the d'Este court. During the reign of Ercole d'Este I, one of the most significant patrons of the arts in late 15th and early 16th century Italy, Ferrara grew into a cultural centre, renowned for music as well as for visual arts. Alfonso I, son of Ercole, was also an important patron. His preference for instrumental music resulted in Ferrara becoming an important centre of composition for the lute. Alfonso married the notorious Lucrezia Borgia.
The architecture of Ferrara benefited from the genius of Biagio Rossetti who, in 1484, was asked by Ercole I to redesign the plan of the city. The resulting Addizione Erculea is one of the most important and beautiful examples of renaissance city planning and contributed to the selection of Ferrara as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
REGIONAL SIGHTS
The most iconic building of the town is the ancient ducal fortress Castello Estense. Sited in the very center of the town, it's a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four massive bastions. It was built starting in 1385 and partly restored in 1554 with the addition of pavilions on the top of the towers. The fortress, with its drawbridges and unusual battlements, also houses marble balconies and sumptuous apartments.
The ancient City Hall, renovated in the 18th century, was the earlier residence of the Este family. The former Cathedral of Saint George was begun in 1135 when the Romanesque lower part of the main façade and the side façades were completed. The upper part of the main façade, with arcades of pointed arches and the elaborate relief sculptures depicting the Last Judgement, date from the 13th century. The campanile, in the Renaissance style, dates from 1451-1493, but the last story was added at the end of the 16th century. The interior was restored in the Baroque style in 1712.
Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces. Among the finest palaces is Palazzo dei Diamanti, named after the diamond points into which the façade's stone blocks are cut. The palazzo houses the National Picture Gallery with a large collection of the school of Ferrara. The Casa Romei is the best preserved Renaissance building in Ferrara. It was the residence of Giovanni Romei, related to Este family by marriage. It did not fall into decay because it was inherited by the nuns of the Corpus Domini order who lived there without making any changes to its structure. Much of the
decoration in the inner rooms has been saved. The Corpus Domini Monastery contains tombs of the House of Este.
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A revolt by citizens of Ferrara in 1385 struck enough fear in the ruling Este duke that he constructed this massive brick fortress to protect himself and his family. The castle's walls and towers behind their moat look less forbidding today, and its immense courtyard is often filled with colorful banners and booths of a local fair or festival.
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Il Castello Estense è il monumento più rappresentativo della città di Ferrara e sorse nel 1385 come strumento di controllo politico e militare. La prima pietra fu posata simbolicamente il 29 settembre, giorno di San Michele, protettore di porte e rocche urbiche e per questo è anche conosciuto come il castello di San Michele.
Le prigioni del castello, poste al livello del fossato, si trovano nei sotterranei della torre dei Leoni. Gli Estensi vi rinchiusero personaggi d'alto rango o comunque prigionieri per cui occorreva una particolare sorveglianza, non certo detenuti comuni che trovavano posto nelle carceri del palazzo della Ragione. In alcune celle è ancora possibile riconoscere alcune tracce lasciate dai reclusi come ad esempio delle scritte graffite sui mattoni della parete. (wikipedia)
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The Castello Estense (‘Este castle’) or castello di San Michele (‘St. Michael's castle’) is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy. It is a large block with four corner towers.- Wikipedia
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The Castle Estense or Castle of Saint Michele, is the most representative monument of the city of Ferrara. The Estense Castle was built in 1385 as an instrument of political and military control. The first stone was laid symbolically on September 29, the day of St. Michael, the patron of ports and fortresses urbiche. The work was commissioned architect Bartolino da Novara, former architect of the castle of Pavia and then to Mantua, by the Marquis Niccolò II d'Este who considered essential to adopt a powerful machine of repression after a massive popular uprising which broke out in May of that same year. Marquis was initially granted a loan of 25,000 ducats from the lord of Mantua Francesco I Gonzaga.
The castle was built around the tower dei Leoni, an ancient tower lookout already existed in the thirteenth century and is set along the walls which then bordered the city to the north. Bartolino da Novara closed quadrilateral doing build three towers Marchesana south-east of St. Paul to the south-west and north-west of Santa Caterina. The structure was then in origin function fortress defensive of that period are the towers and drawbridges but over time the character of royal dynastic overshadowed the military.
After the coup attempt in 1476 by Niccolo, son of Leonello d'Este, Ercole I decided to settle in the castle and then to make several changes to the building to adapt to court life. At that time the body of the building was doubled between the tower and the Marchioness and the Lions work began to expand and make the decor via Blanket, until then a simple walkway that connected the castle to the ducal palace, the previous residence.
The figure of Hercules I must be the so-called Herculean Addition , entrusted the work of architect and urban planner Biagio Rossetti in 1492. The Addition included the construction of a large fortified belt that would have doubled the size of the city to the north and Ferrara reinvented in a modern way, so that it can be rightfully counted among the major European capitals. Another effect of the operation was to move the center of gravity of the urban structure and break the traditional urban hierarchies.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Alfonso I continued the renovation and decoration of the castle undertaken by his predecessor Hercules. Since 1507 Alfonso made completely restructure the Covered Street to situate their own private rooms. In particular, we must remember the famous Camerini Alabaster found a place where his precious art collection, which included paintings by Titian, Dosso Dossi and sculptures by Antonio Lombardo. The changes essentially had no effect on the appearance of the castle but after a serious fire in 1554 were launched several campaigns to renovation work of Girolamo da Carpi and his death by Alberto Schiatti. The intervention of the Carpi did not alter the structure of the complex, but merely to amend it in a few qualifying factors, however, sufficient to redefine the appearance and symbolic significance. The balustrades of marble replaced the battlements dovetail medieval ingentilendo so the appearance of the castle while the addition of the turrets served to propel the construction upward, replacing military optics observation that the contemplation of the landscape.
At the fifth and last Duke of Este, Alfonso II, is instead due the extensive program for the development decoration of the castle, which affected the entire building from the courtyard to the halls of the main floor. In 1597 Alfonso II died without direct heirs and Pope Clement VIII took the opportunity to remove the government of the city to the Este family, who had to leave the following year finally Ferrara moved to Modena.
With the settlement of the Cardinals tied in the castle, who made it the administrative center of the province of Ferrara, we witnessed a gradual decline of the city from the outskirts of the capital of the Este anonymous to the Papal States. The measures put in place during this period are few and largely confined to the area of the tower of Santa Caterina, such as enlargement of the rivellino north and the decoration of the rooms adjacent.
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Ferrara: dalla cattedrale al castello estense
Itinerario a Ferrara, dalla Cattedrale al Castello Estense, simbolo della città, pochi passi nella storia. Ferrara è la città delle biciclette, a misura d'uomo, un centro storico medioevale e uno rinascimentale, la città di Lucrezia Borgia e degli Este è praticamente divisa in due.
Il castello è l'unico che si può trovare circondato d'acqua e in piena città, una vera chicca per i turisti che se lo trovano davanti improvvisamente, a sorprendere con la sua magnificenza e imponenza.
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The Castello Estense or castello di San Michele is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy. It consists of a large block with four corner towers. On 3 May 1385, the Ferrarese people, driven to desperation by taxes and flooding that had brought ruin upon them, took themselves to the Marquis Niccolò II d'Este’s palace to ask the advice of Tommaso da Tortona, the high official held to be responsible for this grave situation. Nicolò tried to calm the revolt all day, but by the evening it was clear that the people's spirits were getting more and more angry and that the very safety of the Estensi was endangered. The order was therefore given to summon the disgraced Tommaso, who was given confession and communion and then given to the crowd, who literally tore him to pieces.
This episode, which resulted later in the death of the leaders of the revolt, convinced the Marquis that the family’s palace (which is now the Palazzo Comunale) was insufficient to guarantee the security of the nobility in the event of riots. He therefore ordered the construction of a defensive fortress on the north side of the Palazzo, entrusting the project to the architect Bartolino da Novara. He used a pre-existing tower (the Torre dei Leoni), which was part of the defensive walls, at that period very much to the south of the present ones, running, roughly speaking, along the line of the present Corso Giovecca and Viale Cavour. The tower was joined by curtain walls to another three newly built for this project. Between the Este residence and the new fortress was built an aerial passageway (perhaps in wood) to allow people to flee from one to the other.
As the city grew the city walls were moved, so the defensive function of the castle became less important and apartments began to be built in its interior, which was by now considered an annex to the court palace. From the time of Ercole I d'Este on, there are many records of construction of apartments, and of their enlargement and enhancement. The definitive transformation works were ordered by Ercole II after a fire in 1544, which had damaged the previous accommodation. The architect Girolamo da Carpi gave the castle the external appearance which can be still seen today, although the interior has been remodelled several times across the ages. After the departure of the Este to Modena, the castle became the residence of the Papal Legate who administered the Ferrarese territory as civil governor (for a maximum term of four years). There were few changes made to the structure of the building, the most obvious being the increase in height of the north ravelin (the room which currently houses the cafeteria).
In 1860 Ferrara was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. The castle, now state-owned, was bought for 70,000 liras in 1874 by the Province of Ferrara that utilized the structure as headquarters of the Prefecture. In the subsequent decades, the castle underwent many small restoration projects, especially between 1910 and 1930, when some very questionable attempts were done. During World War II it was severly damaged by Allied aerial bombing, thus it was partially reconstructed in 1946.
On the outside, the castle essentially presents the appearance given to it by Girolamo da Carpi in the second half of the 16th century. Surrounded by a moat, it has three entrances with drawbridges fronted by brickwork ravelins. The fourth entrance, to the east, was sacrificed to make room for the kitchens.
At the bottom, the appearance of the building still recalls a mediaeval fortress, but higher up, da Carpi replaced the battlements with elegant balconies in white stone (resting on series of corbels), making it higher again by constructing a higher storey, covered by a skew roof. The towers were improved and made more graceful with roof terraces.
The Ducal Chapel is a little room with elegant geometric lines, destinated to private praying. An old tradition argued that Renée de France - wife of Duke Ercole II of Este who had Calvinist sympathies - ordered this particular decoration, without sacred images. On the walls, coated all over with precious polychrome marbles, no sacred image - either painted or in mosaic - is actually represented, as one would at least expect in the small niches.
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Il Castello Estense, o castello di San Michele, è il monumento più rappresentativo della città di Ferrara.
Il Castello Estense sorse nel 1385 come strumento di controllo politico e militare. La prima pietra fu posata simbolicamente il 29 settembre, giorno di San Michele, protettore di porte e rocche urbiche.
L'opera fu commissionata all'architetto Bartolino da Novara, già artefice del castello di Pavia e poi di quello di Mantova, dal marchese Niccolò II d'Este che ritenne indispensabile dotarsi di una potente macchina repressiva dopo un'imponente rivolta popolare scatenatasi nel maggio di quello stesso anno. Al marchese venne concesso inizialmente un prestito di 25.000 ducati dal signore di Mantova Francesco I Gonzaga.
Alla notizia di un ennesimo aumento delle tasse, i ferraresi insorsero e chiesero a gran voce la consegna di Tommaso da Tortona, consigliere del Marchese e responsabile della riscossione delle gabelle. Tommaso, dopo aver debitamente ricevuto i Sacramenti, fu consegnato dal marchese alla folla inferocita, che lo fece letteralmente a pezzi.
« il disgraziato Tommaso, non senza aver prima messo in pace con Dio l'anima sua, venne consegnato alla folla inferocita, che, afferratolo e malmenatolo, lo ridusse in tanti pezzi, bruciandone poi alcuni sul rogo dei libri pubblici gettati alle fiamme, issandone altri su canne in segno di trionfo e dando gli intestini da mangiare a uomini, cani ed uccelli. »
(Luciano Chiappini, Gli Estensi)
Il castello sorse intorno alla torre dei Leoni, un'antica torre di avvistamento già esistente nel XIII secolo ed inserita lungo la cinta muraria che allora delimitava la città verso nord. Bartolino da Novara chiuse il quadrilatero facendo edificare altre tre torri: Marchesana a sud-est, di San Paolo a sud-ovest e di Santa Caterina a nord-ovest. La struttura ebbe quindi in origine la funzione di fortezza difensiva: di quel periodo sono le torri e i ponti levatoi ma nel tempo il suo carattere di reggia dinastica mise in ombra quello militare.
Nel 1860 Ferrara venne annessa al Regno d'Italia. Il castello, divenuto proprietà dello Stato, fu acquistato per 70.000 lire nel 1874 dall'amministrazione provinciale di Ferrara che prese ad impiegarne gli spazi come sede dei propri uffici e della prefettura. Negli anni l'efficienza strutturale del monumento è stata salvaguardata grazie ai continui lavori di manutenzione, ai quali si sono affiancate, in vari momenti, specifiche opere di restauro. Molti interventi furono fatti nel periodo tra il 1910 ed il 1930, alcuni molto discutibili come quelli tesi a creare una piena accessibilità del cortile del castello alle autovetture. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il rivellino nord fu demolito dai bombardamenti, per poi essere fedelmente ricostruito dal Genio Civile nel 1946.
Nel 1999, per iniziativa del presidente della Provincia di Ferrara Pier Giorgio Dall'Acqua, si diede vita al progetto Il Castello per la Città. Grazie alla collaborazione tra Prefettura e Provincia di Ferrara, si iniziò a pensare ad un nuovo utilizzo delle stanze sino a quel momento sede governativa. La fase preparatoria dei lavori partì dal restauro del palazzo di Giulio d'Este, che divenne in seguito la nuova sede della prefettura, e nel 2002, a trasferimento ultimato, si iniziò il restauro del castello ed il contemporaneo utilizzo per nuove iniziative.
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FERRARA: Castello Estense, un viaggio nella storia lungo oltre 600 anni | VIDEO
Simbolo della città di Ferrara il castello di San Michele, meglio noto come Castello Estense, ha visto iniziare la sua costruzione nel 1385. Una delle quattro torri era già presente all’inizio del XIII secolo e veniva utilizzata come punto di avvistamento. Ad ordinare la costruzione della fortezza fu Nicolò II D’Este, quando, a seguito di una forte carestia vissuta dai cittadini, vide questi ultimi insorgere contro i governatori locali. Dopo la morte di Alfonso II, con l’arrivo dei cardinali, il Ducato di Ferrara divenne una provincia periferica dello stato della Chiesa. Il castello dalla tipica struttura medievale, oggi è visitabile grazie a un lungo percorso guidato. Si passa dalla torre dei leoni, raggiungibile salendo 120 gradini, fino alle anguste prigioni collocate al livello del fossato. Osservando i dipinti si nota come siano in corso degli interventi di consolidamento, iniziati dopo il forte sisma del 2012. Segnalato come il museo più visitato a Ferrara, il castello registra ogni anno oltre 200 mila visitatori, il 20% dei quali provenienti dall’estero.
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Il castello Estense posto nella sua fossa d'acqua al centro di Ferrara colpisce l'immaginazione di ogni visitatore.
Dimora stabile degli Estensi dal 1476, venne eretto a partire dal 1385, l'architetto fu Bartolino Ploti da Novara.
L'edificio sorse attorno alla preesistente torre dei Leoni, che faceva parte di preesistenti opere difensive.
Dove ora vi sono le terrazze all'inizio vi erano le merlature, abbattute a seguito di un incendio.
al piano terra troviamo i tre ingressi ; Rivellini Nod, Ovest e sud.
Il quarto rivellino è stato sacrificato per fare posto alle cucine.
La visita inizia attraverso 4 sale gotiche per passare poi alle cucine, alle prigioni di Don Giulio e di Ugo e Parisina, per accedere poi attraverso la rampa delle artiglierie al piamo nobile.
Qui si può ammirare il giardino degli aranci, i camerini dei baccanali e la cappella ducale.
Si può salire sulla torre dei Leoni per ammirare la veduta panoramica della città.
Si prosegue poi attraversola sala dell'aurora, la saletta dei giuochi e il salone dei giuochi dal magnifico soffitto diviso in 11 riquadri, alcuni del Bastianino, dove sono rappresentati atleti nudi che svolgono sport caratteristici dell'antica Grecia secondo il gusto del Duca Alfonso II.
Si passa poi all'appartamento della Pazienza voluto da Ercole II d'Este.
Qui abbiamo la camera della torre di Santa Caterina con soffitto neorinascimentale, l'anticamera della Galleria, la sala di Ettore e Andromaca e la sala della galleria.
Si prosegue poi attraverso la sala delle bonifiche, la sala della torre di San Paolo con disegni a tempera alle pareti e le 4 stagioni nel soffitto.
Attraverso l'anticamera del governo passiamo poi nella sala del Governo dallo spendido soffitto a lacunari dipinti originale, forse uno dei più belli del genere in Italia.
Segue la sala della devoluzione e la sala dei paersaggi eseguiti intorno al settecento.
Segue la sala delle geografie o sala Marchesana situata nella torre dell'orologio,
Si passa infine attraverso il salotto azzurro nella sala dei Comuni e da questa nella sala degli stemmi che conclude il percorso.
Uscendo dal salone degli stemmi si imbocca la scala elicoidale del 500 che riporta il visitatore nel cortile.
Difficile respirare l'aria di tutti i giorni dopo un'immersione in tanti secoli di storia della città racchiusi nel qudrato delle 4 torri del castello.
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CASTELLO ESTENSE a Ferrara: una magnifica fortezza al centro della città.
Per il Vlog #33 vi portiamo a Ferrara, città graziosa ed eco-friendly (ribattezzata Città della Bicicletta), al cui centro si erge imponente il Castello degli Este.
Questa visita non era prevista durante la nostra vacanza, ma la deviazione ne è valsa proprio la pena. Buona visione!
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E' il maestoso simbolo di Ferrara con le sue quattro torri circondate dal fossato, i rossi mattoni di cotto, le eleganti balaustre bianche, le prigioni e le sale per i giochi e il diletto di corte.
A Ferrara nel 1385, una pericolosa rivolta convinse Niccolò II d’Este della necessità di erigere una poderosa difesa per sé e la sua famiglia sorse così il Castello di San Michele, fortezza che ricorda il Castello di S. Giorgio a Mantova - realizzato anch'esso da Bartolino da Novara. A quel periodo risalgono la massiccia imponenza, il fossato, i ponti levatoi, le torri austere. Un passaggio coperto, ancora esistente, univa l’edificio militare al palazzo dei marchesi, oggi Palazzo Municipale. Passarono i secoli e i pericoli di sommosse cessarono. Allora il castello fu abbellito e slanciato per divenire la magnifica residenza della corte: venne arricchito dalle altane sopra le torri, dai balconi di marmo, dal cortile d'onore di linee cinquecentesche e dai fastosi appartamenti affrescati, ancor oggi visitabili all'interno del percorso museale.
Le imponenti torri, poste ai quattro angoli del Castello svettano ancora oggi sulla città, simbolo indelebile della grandezza e magnificenza della Famiglia D'Este: a sud-est la Torre Marchesana e a sud-ovest la Torre di San Paolo, a nord-ovest la Torre di Santa Caterina, a nord-est la splendida Torre dei Leoni, punto panoramico da cui ammirare la città.