FERRARA CASTLE, DIAMOND PALACE, SCHIFANOIAPALACE, CATHEDRAL, COMMUNAL THEATRE AND OTHERHISTORICAL PALACES AND MUSEUMS. TOWN OF FERRARAFERRARA WAS AN IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL CENTRE AND ONEOF THE MOST OPULENT COURTS OF THE RENAISSANCE. ITIS FROM THERE THAT ITS TOTALLY DISTINCTIVECHARACTERISTICS COME FROM THE HARMONIOUS ANDINIMITABLE SUM OF THE TANGLE OF SHADED ANDIRREGULAR STREETS IN ITS MEDIEVAL QUARTERS ANDTHE AIRY, LUMINOUS AND GEOMETRIC SPACES OF THERENAISSANCE AGE. ALL THIS FULL OF SPLENDIDPALACES, HOUSES, CHURCHES, SQUARES, STREETS,GARDENS AND WORKS OF ART CONSERVED IN ITSINNUMERABLE MUSEUMS THAT CONSTITUTE ONE OF ITSGREATEST ATTRACTIONS. THATS WHY FERRARA, AS THECITY OF THE RENAISSANCE, AND ITS PO DELTA HASBEEN ENTERED BY UNESCO IN THE WORLD HERITAGELIST. FERRARA IS A SILENT CITY, ON A HUMAN SCALE,WHERE YOU CAN STROLL ON FOOT OR PEDAL SLOWLY ON ABICYCLE, AT ANY HOUR OF THE DAY OR NIGHT, WITHOUTANY FEAR, RELIVING THE MAGIC ATMOSPHERE OF THEPAST WITH EACH STEP. FERRARA IS ONE OF THE MOSTIMPORTANT CENTRES OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURALINTEREST IN ITALY, THANKS, IN THE FIRST PLACE, TOTHE DIAMOND PALACE, SEAT OF PRESTIGIOUSEXHIBITIONS AND TO THE TOP QUALITY SEASONS OF ITSMUNICIPAL THEATRE. FERRARA IS THE SEAT OFHISTORICALLY REMINISCENT EVENTS OF GREAT APPEALSUCH AS THE PALIO DI SAN GIORGIO, THE OLDEST INITALY, AN ANNUAL APPOINTMENT THAT LETS YOU RELIVEUNIQUE AND UNREPEATABLE MAGIC AND EMOTIONS ANDTHE FERRARA BUSKERS FESTIVAL, IN WHICH STREETMUSICIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COME TOGETHERIN THE CITY IN A VERY SPECIAL MUSICAL HAPPENING.THE CITYS NAME, WHICH IS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN,APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONGOBARDDOCUMENT DATING FROM THE YEAR 753. THE CITY WASFOUNDED FOR MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL PURPOSES ATTHE FORK OF THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE ANCIENT PO,VOLANO AND PRIMARO. IN THE MIDDLE AGES, AFTER ALONG SERIES OF VICISSITUDES THAT ALSO BROUGHT ITUNDER THE RULE OF THE COUNTS OF CANOSSA, ITBECAME A SELF GOVERNING FREE COMMUNE AND BE