Emilia-Romagna Region.

Forty kilometres of porticoes and two leaning towers in the heart of Bologna, home of the oldest university. Beyond, the plain and the hills: villas among cypresses, and a table the whole of Italy knows. On the coast, Ravenna: Byzantine mosaics, pine woods and the sea.

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Ravenna, the art of mosaic.

The starry sky of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the green and gold apse of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Empress Theodora and her court in San Vitale: in Ravenna the Byzantine mosaics have shone for fifteen centuries. And in the city's workshops the craft goes on, tile by tile, among hammers, mortar and coloured glass.

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02:25 Ravenna, the mosaics

Video Comune di Ravenna

What you will see
  1. 01The starry sky of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
  2. 02The hammer cutting the tiles
  3. 03Ravenna by night, from above
  4. 04The apse of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
  5. 05The mosaicists' hands: tiles, mortar, colours
  6. 06Empress Theodora and her court, in San Vitale

Ravenna, capital of the sea.

Capital of the Sea 2026: Ravenna seen from the water and from above. Turtles and flamingos, the countryside and the wetlands along the rivers, miles of beach with the umbrellas in rows; and between one flight and the next, the city of mosaics and the Mausoleum of Theodoric.

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00:41 Ravenna, capital of the sea

Video Comune di Ravenna

What you will see
  1. 01Ravenna from above and its cloisters
  2. 02The sea and its turtles
  3. 03The countryside and the wetlands along the rivers
  4. 04Mosaics and masterpieces from different centuries
  5. 05The Mausoleum of Theodoric, the flamingos, the beach from above

Ravenna's Parco Marittimo.

From the rooms of a museum in town to the pine wood, and on to the sea: wooden walkways over the water, the wetlands crossed by boat, a bicycle along the paths, the dunes and the beach. A day between Ravenna and its coast, told like a short film.

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03:05 Ravenna's Parco Marittimo

Video 3pix · Comune di Ravenna

What you will see
  1. 01A visit to the museum, in town
  2. 02The pine wood and the walkways over the water
  3. 03By boat along the canal, through the wetlands
  4. 04By bicycle all the way to the beach
  5. 05Back at the museum, at the end of the day

Ravenna, the Darsena celebrates.

Summer 2015 on the Darsena canal, Ravenna's old harbour: musicians and acrobats, food stalls, families along the quays, dives from the pier. Then night falls, with the crowd under the stage, the lights reflected in the water and the closing show on the canal. Ravenna in the year it was Italian Capital of Culture.

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03:12 Ravenna, Italian Capital of Culture 2015

Video NEO Visual Project Ravenna

What you will see
  1. 01The Darsena at sunset, people on the quays
  2. 02Musicians, acrobats and food stalls
  3. 03Diving from the pier
  4. 04The concert, under the stage
  5. 05Night: lights on the water and the closing show

Postcards from Emilia-Romagna.

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