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The Best Attractions In Province of Ravenna

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The province of Ravenna is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ravenna. As of 2015, it has a population of 391,997 inhabitants over an area of 1,859.44 square kilometres , giving it a population density of 210.81 inhabitants per square kilometre. Its provincial president is Claudio Casadio.
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The Best Attractions In Province of Ravenna

  • 1. Basilica San Vitale Ravenna
    The Basilica of San Vitale is a church in Ravenna, Italy, and one of the most important surviving examples of early Christian Byzantine art and architecture in Europe. The Roman Catholic Church has designated the building a basilica, the honorific title bestowed on church buildings of exceptional historic and ecclesial importance, although it is not of architectural basilica form. It is one of eight Ravenna structures inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • 2. Mirabilandia Ravenna
    Mirabilandia is an Italian amusement park, located in Savio, a frazione of Ravenna, which is located in Emilia-Romagna. With a total area of 850.000 sqm, it is the biggest Park of Italy.It has an area of 30 hectares, with an additional waterworld area of 10 hectares, called Mirabilandia Beach. The most notable attractions are the Katun inverted roller coaster and the iSpeed launched coaster. It has the world's tallest Watercoaster, the Divertical with a height of 60 m. It houses the 90-metre tall Eurowheel, Europe's second tallest Ferris wheel.
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  • 4. Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo Ravenna
    The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo is a basilica church in Ravenna, Italy. It was erected by Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great as his palace chapel during the first quarter of the 6th century . This Arian church was originally dedicated in 504 AD to Christ the Redeemer.It was reconsecrated in 561 AD, under the rule of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, under the new name Sanctus Martinus in Coelo Aureo . Suppressing the Arian cult, the church was dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, a foe of Arianism. According to legend, Pope Gregory the Great ordered that the mosaics in the church be blackened, as their golden glory distracted worshipers from their prayers. The basilica was renamed again in 856 AD when relics of Saint Apollinaris were transferred from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare ...
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  • 6. Safari Ravenna Ravenna
    Safari Ravenna is a Safari park and Zoo in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, created in 2012 near the Amusement park of Mirabilandia; extending over an area of 340.000 square metres. There is a large area for large mammals and birds to be seen only by car or train, and a smaller traditional zoo with the Reptile section, Primates, Australian section and domestic animals.
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  • 9. Archiepiscopal Museum Ravenna
    The Archiepiscopal Museum is located in Ravenna, Italy, next to the Baptistry of Neon and behind the Duomo of Ravenna. In the museum relics of early Christian Ravenna are preserved, including fragments of mosaic from the first cathedral church, and the chapel of Sant'Andrea, dating from the Gothic kingdom. The main room, on entering, contains lapidary inscriptions as HIC REQUIESCIT IN PACE VIR SBL SEDA IGNUCUS , CUBICULARIUS or 'Bedchamberlain' to Theodoric the Great, buried 541 AD. Beneath this, by the window, a reliquary for the martyred saints Quiricus and Julietta, whose remains were carried from Tarsus, the birthplace of Saint Paul, to Auxerre and from thence to Ravenna. The depictions on its four facings are in keeping with the theme of donation: Galla Placidia placed it in the churc...
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  • 11. Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe Classe
    The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe is an important monument of Byzantine art near Ravenna, Italy. When the UNESCO inscribed eight Ravenna sites on the World Heritage List, it cited this basilica as an outstanding example of the early Christian basilica in its purity and simplicity of its design and use of space and in the sumptuous nature of its decoration.
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