With this 2-hour private guided tour of Ferrara, you will enjoy the most important treasures of the city. Explore some of its most important and famous sites and learn about its fasinating history during the Renaissance era. The town of Ferrara is characterised by broad streets and numerous palaces dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.

The tour begins with a visit to Schifanoia Palace, one of the so called "Delizie" of the Este family. There, you can find the Hall of the Months with its 15th century frescos which represent the largest cycle of pagan frescos existing in Europe. Some of the greatest local painters of the Renaissance, such as Cosmè Tura, Franceso del Cossa and Ercole Roberti worked here. 

The tour will then continue with a visit to the Romanesque Gothic style of the cathedral with its Renaissance apse, the courtyard of the former Ducal Palace, and then with a short walk, you'll get to Este Castle, proceeding the Renaissance city, with its wide elegant streets and the famous Diamond Palace. Prepare to take amazing pictures of the palaces, the squares, the typical streets of the old town and the picturesque Renaissance palaces.