Delizia di Medelana
It was one of the Este family autumn resorts, used while the courtiers were hunting with falcons and nets. In November 1499 Duke Ercole I and his son Alfonso, f...
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Castello Estense
In 1264, Obizzo d’Este prevailed over the rival Salinguerra family of Ghibelline allegiance and for over three centuries the political scene in the city and its...
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta
Only the unique places in the world are accepted on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Up to now 962 have been recognised, spread across 157 countries and Italy, w...
The landscape of the Estense area
“The Glorious Princes always aimed at matching together the useful, and the delectable, […] and this can be seen especially in the fortifications they mad...