Ferrara

Ferrara (locally called Frara) is a city of 135 thousand¹ within its eponymous province of the Emilia-Romagna (locally Emélia-Rumâgna) Region of Italia.² It is along a former distributary of the Po River, the Po di Volano, southwest of the current delta. UNESCO honors the city for its Renaissance urban planning during its rule by the house of Este. Besides decorating the palaces for their patrons, the artists of the 15th and 16th centuries were guided by the "humanist concept of the 'ideal city'" and by then-new principles of perspective.³

The tallest modern buildings are the two Grattacielo towers (303 feet, 1971).³

External references

Estense Castle, Ferrara city, Ferrara Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy, accessed February 16, 2017.
2. Italy in English.
3. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
4. Emporis.com, accessed January 30, 2018. The East Mast of the Ferrara transmitter, a wired mast, is taller at 328 feet.