Ravenna

Everyone knows that Ravenna is home to the remains of Dante Alighieri, but the great poet was not the only one to experience the city’s splendor: Lord Byran, Gustav Klimt, Oscar Wikde, Sigmund Freud and others walked through the streets and alleys of the Romagna city center to fully enjoy its historical and artistic beauties.Above all, the richest heritage of mosaics made between the 5th and 6th centuries AD stands out. and kept inside the splendid early Christian and Byzantine religious buildings, declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.Your visit could start from the Basilica of San Vitale, where you will find the beautiful mosaics that tell the origins of Christianity and that host the famous panels depicting the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, perhaps the most famous image of Ravenna in the world.Also unmissable are the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Baptisteries of the Arians and the Orthodox, the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo and in Classe and also the Archbishop’s Chapel and the Mausoleum of Theodoric.In these places with a remote, mystical and sublime aura you can admire an intense and unique form of art, kept in this ancient capital like nowhere else in the world.