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Piacenza Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Piacenza? Check out our Piacenza Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Piacenza.
Top Places to visit in Piacenza:
Borgo Castell'Arquato, Castello di Rivalta, Gropparello Castle - Fairy Tales Park, Ponte Vecchio, Basilica di Sant'Antonino, Castello di Vigoleno, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Duomo Di Piacenza, Collegiata di Santa Maria, Brugnello, Abbazia di San Colombano, Piazza Cavalli, Rocca d'Olgisio, Musei Civici Di Palazzo Farnese, Abbazia Cistercense di Chiaravalle della Colomba
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The Po Delta Park | Italia Slow Tour
Welcome to the extreme Po Delta Park! Let's have a tour on the boat of a local fisherman. This area is still intact, less touched by human hand. Discover something about the fish species living here, above all they are euryhaline, that is they can adapt to both salt and fresh water.
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Bassano: the bridge, the Alpines, the grappa | Italia Slow Tour
The old bridge of Bassano is known as the bridge of the Alpine, because in 1948 the Alpines rebuilt it after the Second World War. You know, this bridge has been damaged, destroyed, a lot of times but it has always been rebuilt the same way, according to the original plan of Palladio. But Bassano is famous also for its local grappa, do you know what does a “tagliatella” mean here? It is a peculiar way to drink grappa, blended with some other liquors, try on!
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Milan: The botanical garden in Brera | Italia Slow Tour
The botanical garden in Brera is a miracle of greenery amid the buildings of Milan, with 300 different species and five thousand square metres! It dates from the end of the 18th century and it has a very special atmosphere. For anyone wanting to learn more about art through botany, there is an interesting little learning-through-play booklet: Arte e Orto (Art and Garden) It incorporates everything there is in Brera's picture gallery!
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I Santuari più visitati dagli italiani
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Ecco una carrellata dei Santuari più conosciuti e visitati dagli italiani. Buona visione.
Pedaso (Marche, Italy), Alba del 21 Ottobre 2013 - Sunset with Bell (manortiz)
Piacenza
Piacenza è una città dell'Emilia-Romagna, in Italia. Nella centrale Piazza Cavalli sono presenti due statue equestri e il Palazzo Gotico medievale. Un angelo di rame ruota in cima al campanile del Duomo di Piacenza. La vicina Basilica di Sant'Antonino ha una torre a 8 facciate e affreschi del XVII secolo, oltre a un portale, chiamato Porta del Paradiso, con un rosone. I Musei civici di Palazzo Farnese ospitano sculture e armi.
Per conoscere meglio le chiese di Piacenza ci vorrebbe una giornata dedicata solo ad esse.
E’ però una città anche ricca di storia, la si può vedere nei suoi palazzi e nei monumenti, nei musei e in alcune gallerie d’arte, non senza buttare un occhio anche ai negozi e alle botteghe d’artigianato antiche e moderne che costellano il centro.
Piacenza is a city of Emilia-Romagna, in Italy. In the central Piazza Cavalli there are two equestrian statues and the medieval Gothic palace. A copper angel rotates on top of the bell tower of the Duomo of Piacenza. The nearby Basilica of Sant'Antonino has an 8-sided tower and seventeenth-century frescoes, as well as a portal, called Porta del Paradiso, with a rose window. The Civic Museums of Palazzo Farnese host sculptures and weapons.
To learn more about the churches of Piacenza it would take a day dedicated only to them.
But it is also a city rich in history, you can see it in its palaces and monuments, in museums and in some art galleries, not without even throwing an eye to the shops and the ancient and modern craft shops that dot the center.
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Places to see in ( Ferrara - Italy ) Palazzo di Ludovico il Moro
Places to see in ( Ferrara - Italy ) Palazzo di Ludovico il Moro
Palazzo Costabili , also known as Ludovico il Moro palace , is located in Ferrara , on the ridge of the Addition of Borso, via XX Settembre 122. Today it houses the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara. Although unfinished it fully represents one of the greatest masterpieces of the architect Biagio Rossetti .
According to a hypothetical tradition, the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro , to escape the looming threats that were looming over his person, would have decided to build a sumptuous home in the peaceful capital of Este , city of origin of his bride Beatrice d'Este , and entrusted the ambassador of the city of Milan to the Este court with the task of providing for the construction of this building. In reality it seems that the commission left only the legate of the Sforza near the Este, the ambassador Antonio Costabili .
The works were entrusted to the great architect Biagio Rossetti who began the construction of the dwelling in 1495 while the works ended as early as 1504 . The building was built on the ancient Via della Ghiara , so called because of the sandy remains left by one of the branches of the Po that once flowed in that area, and represents the historic political alliances that at that time were between Ferrara and Milan, highlighted especially from the kinships of Ludovico il Moro con i Este, both as husband of Beatrice d'Este and as uncle of Anna Maria Sforza , first wife of Alfonso I d'Este .
Later the building became the property of the Costabili family which, extinct in the sixteenth century , gave rise to a series of passages of property that decreed the decay while only in 1920 , at the initiative of the Director General of Antiquities and Fine Arts Corrado Ricci , the State bought the property from the last owners when its conditions were now collapsing. In 1929 the Ministry of National Education decided to allocate the building to the site of the archaeological finds found in the necropolis of Spina . Restoration work started in 1932, involved the consolidation of the structure and its adaptation to the museum, including the remaking in style and the elimination of many baroque decorations, as was the practice of the time. The last restoration works date back to the nineties on behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Municipality of Ferrara, which carried out technological upgrading of the plants and philological restorations .
The courtyard of honor, despite being incomplete on two sides, probably represents the most significant aspect of the splendor of the dwelling: a double order of arches produces a constant rhythm, with the portico and the upper loggia. The two orders of arches are crowned by an elegant terracotta cornice , and marble decorations that make the whole more harmonious. The windows of the first floor, originally, were alternately open and walled in groups of two, creating a game of full and empty that can still partly be appreciated on the facade of the building on Via Porta d'Amore.
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Riviera del Conero, Santa Maria di Portonovo (manortiz)
Santa Maria di Portonovo, romanesque treasure onto the sea
Portonovo and the related Adriatic coastline is surely known by many as a place where to spend your holidays. For whom travelling and passing by this area, we advise you to go and visit the church of Santa Maria di Portonovo, that is one of the maximum examples of Roman art in Marche.
It stands on an enchanting location upon a little rock cliff drawn into the sea and it is touched by the green Mediterranean scrub characteristic of the Conero Riviera. Indeed, there no exist reliable sources that can certify the history of the beginning of this example of medieval architecture in Marche; henceforth, those who is studying it attempted to make a reconstruction as much adherent to reality of the episodes that brought to its construction.
During the past someone talked about a document that would have been testifying the donation of the ground over the which was built up a Benedictine monastery at Portonovo in 1034; that document is a currently lost and with many doubts about its authenticity.
It is known that Saint Gaudenzio has been living in Portonovo for two years and he has dead over there: therefore, his death represents a good chronological limit to set the construction of the monastery, dated between 1044 and 1050, date matching with morphological characteristics of the building.
The architectural structure of the Church, besides of being particularly impressive, is also very singular: it is a fusion of Greek cross shape, Basilic plant and a Church with chapels parallel-like. External walls have been realized with Conero white stone, whilst internal floor is made by yellow stone and cotto. In the lower side of the building there are several single-lancet windows, while in the elliptic planted Byzantine style cupola there are some double lancet windows.
Santa Maria di Portonovo, together with the adjacent monastic building lived by Benedictine friars, were the only proof of life in Portonovo. The church (already mentioned into a trace of the year 1034) and the environment offered to the brothers in Benedetto the conditions to observe the sacred Rule that imposed them work, pray, humility and anonymity.
The Church was born as place of cult for a Benedictine monastery reaching a remarkable importance in Medieval Marche region; then, was partially destroyed in 1320 because of a land- slide falling from Conero Mountain; on the contrary, that landslide did not spare the monastery, which there has any more trace of. When Benedictine monks abandoned it, the small church was unused for centuries.
Since 1436 the settlement was given to some hermit monks, after having reached the Ancona Chapter of the Cathedral jurisdiction. By the way, the monastery kept having an uneasy life, because of an incursion in 1518 by Turkish troops that contributed to its definitive collapse, very damaged before because of many and continuous landslides. During Napoleonic period the church was used by troops until 1837, when abbot Cesaretto retired himself to hermitage at Portonovo and gave start to a restoration of the church.
During following years and beginning from 1860, the property of the building passed to the Italian Reign, whose institutions did not take care about it: they left it becoming recover even for shepherds and flocks. This went on until when in 1894 the first systematic restoration of the settlement was started by consolidation of the structures and the removal of the nineteenth-century plasters.
New restorations of the set have been started between 1988 and 1995, while in 2002 have been effected archeological diggings that bore to the light a medieval cemetery and allowed to track the foundations of the tower with bells (this tower was known by the documents, but still not yet localized) and to find out latest structures around the church, such as the hermit house.
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