HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND LANDSCAPE DATA ABOUT THE CONTEXT
 

Ferrara still keeps the intact atmosphere of its past. Since 1995 its historical centre was included by  UNESCO in the Humankind World Heritage, as an example of a Renaissance town with a still intact town centre. The period of splendour of the Estense court has left indelible signs everywhere: in the colossal project of the Herculean Addiction, as well as in the imposing pictorial cycles of the XV and XVI centuries and in Bastianino’s Last Judgement.

The town is surrounded by the city walls and connected to the Po river by a wide Urban Park, a mixture of green lands, sheets of water and pathways extending to the north of the town, the result of a choice which originates from a new concept of urban ecology. The territory is scattered with numerous places and castles rich in art and nature: from the Delizie Estensi to the parishes and the Pomposa Abbey, a monument belonging to the Byzantine-Romanic architecture considered by UNESCO as one of the heritage works to be protected, the valleys, the pine-woods and the Park of the Po Delta, the ideal habitat for the preservation of a unique fauna and flora.