Venues in Ravenna
Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Although it is an inland city, Ravenna is connected to the Adriatic Sea by the Candiano Canal. It is known for its well-preserved late Roman and Byzantine architecture, with eight buildings comprising the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna".
The city annually hosts the Ravenna Festival, one of Italy's prominent classical music gatherings. Opera performances are held at the Teatro Alighieri while concerts take place at the Palazzo Mauro de André as well as in the ancient Basilica of San Vitale and Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, a longtime resident of the city, regularly participates in the festival, which invites orchestras and other performers from around the world.
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Venues in Ravenna (13)
Via Dante Alighieri 2/A
The monument of the ancient Franciscan Cloisters is a corner of refined beauty and silence located in the city’s historic centre, and a place whose symbolic and moral value even surpasses its architectural and artistic qualities, since it brings to mind the period when Dante Alighieri stayed in the city.
Via dell` Almagià 2
From “sulphur warehouse”, in the centre of a major industrial complex which also included a refinery, to archaeological industrial ruin.
Piazza Inferiore di S. Francesco, 2
What little remains of the old church, built in the fifth century by orders of archbishop Neon, is almost all underground: the original plan is three and a half metres lower than the current street level.
Via San Vitale, 17
Consecrated by Archbishop Maximianus between 547 and 548 AD, the Basilica of San Vitale is proof of Ravenna’s importance during the age of Emperor Justinian.
Via Romea Sud, 224
Grandiose and solemn, Sant’Apollinare in Classe represents the greatest example of Paleochristian basilica. In 549 it was consecrated to Saint Apollinare by Massimiano of Pola, the first archbishop of the city and an eminent ambassador of Emperor Giustiniano.
Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 46
When it was founded, at the time of Bishop Peter II (his monogram stands out in the central nave) in the late fifth century, it was located on the bank of the Padenna river.
Via dell' Almagià
The practice of temporary re-use (regulated since February 2015 in the thematic POC Darsena di città) is one of the most interesting and innovative models that have been applied to the Darsena (dock) within the urban reactivation plan: such a practice offers the chance to intervene on free areas through a calibrated functionalization of the open spaces, using unifying elements with marked port features, and creating new activities.
Piazza John Kennedy, 1
Corrado Ricci, at the end of the nineteenth century, stated that the Corradini Palace was “grandiose but with excessive proportions in the door”: in fact, the door that overlooks Via Mariani reaches the second floor.
Viale Europa, 1
The Arts and Performing Arts Building is a rarest example of contemporary architecture in Ravenna and it has proven to be one of the most functional indoor facilities nationwide.
Via San Vitale 17
The Benedictine monks arrived in San Vitale around the tenth century; between the end of the fifteenth and eighteenth they expanded the complex, using workers from Milan, Padua and Venice.
Via Angelo Mariani, 2
Early nineteenth century: after more than one hundred years of life the Communicative Theatre, made entirely out of wood, was collapsing and the Public Administration decided to build a new facility. The first step was to identify an adequate area: Piazzetta Degli Svizzeri, a squalid square surrounded by slums but placed at the very heart of the city, was the chosen place. In 1838, the project was entrusted to two architects from Veneto, the brothers Tomaso and Giovan Batista Maduna. The former had ministered to the restauration of La Fenice, the most famous theatre in Venice, which had been partially destroyed by a fire. Tomaso Meduna also signed the project of the first railway bridge connecting Venice to the mainland. Under the lead of the two architects, the building which resulted was a neoclassical structure very similar to the Venetian theatre. The apostolic delegate Monsignor Stefano Rossi suggested to dedicate the theatre to Dante Alighieri. The official opening ceremony took place on May 15th 1852 with “Roberto il diavolo” by Giacomo Meyerbeer and the ballets “La Zingara” and “La finta sonnambula” with the étoile Augusta Maywood.
Via Angelo Mariani, 2
The Teatro Comunale Alighieri is an opera house located at 2 Via Mariani in Ravenna, Italy and designed by the Venetian architects, Tommaso Meduna and his brother, Giambattista who had designed the second La Fenice theatre after the fire of 1836 . The new Teatro Comunale Alighieri was inaugurated on 15 May 1852 with a production of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, followed by Giovanni Pacini's Medea. It presently offers a program of up to six operas during the season which runs from November to April.
Via di Roma, 39
This small theatre was built in the last decade of the nineteenth century in the former monastic church of Saint Clare, commissioned in 1250 by Chiara Da Polenta and suppressed by Napoleon’s edict in 1805.