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Walls of Ferrara

Italy

Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Ferrara
Coordinates
44.82972°, 11.63272°
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Walls of Ferrara in Italy
Photo: Rapallo80 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The walls of Ferrara are a fortified circuit that originally encircled the Este city completely, with a total length of about thirteen kilometres, now reduced to about nine kilometres. Their construction began in the Middle Ages and they were rebuilt between the 15th and 16th centuries.

Machine-translated from “Mura di Ferrara” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Walls of Ferrara ranks #5,586 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #401 of the 555 mapped in Italy. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 980 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ferrara, 2 km away. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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