Ravenna Food Tour with Wine Tasting and Guided Sightseeing of Top Attractions

Ravenna Food Tour with Wine Tasting and Guided Sightseeing of Top Attractions

Our fully qualified English- speaking tour guide is an art and history expert as well as a good connoisseur of food traditions and wine tasting, during our 3-hours small group ( up to 14 people) walking tour you will be led at the discovery of the history and secrets of the city, you will talk to local food makers and taste their works.

Enjoy the beauty of the finest Byzantine mosaics of the: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Arian Baptistry, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare, Mausoleum of Theodoric, Basilica of San Vitale; just from the city centre you will enter the so called “silent area”:

While wandering the city marvel you will taste the most amazing local food: piadina with prosciutto and squacquerone (ham and fresh cheese); cappelletti, tagliatelle and passatelli; Brisighella oil; some local catch of the day, Teodora’s cake and much more!

All finely paired with regional wines, from the white Trebbiano to the red Sangiovese be sure you will taste all the best local wines.

Itinerary
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Pass By: Piazza del Popolo, 48121, Ravenna Italy

You will enjoy the main square "Piazza del Popolo"

Pass By: Dante's tomb and Quadrarco of Braccioforte, Via Dante Alighieri 9, 48121, Ravenna Italy

Ravenna is also the town where the Florentine poet Dante found shelter during his exile and where he wrote his Inferno. You will have a walk in the so-called Zona Dantesca (Dante's zone), an area dedicated to the great poet where silence is kept by the citizens of Ravenna to respect his memory. There we will visit Dante's tomb and the church of San Francesco where his funeral was held in 1321

Pass By: Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, Via San Vitale, 48121, Ravenna Italy

You will learn about the art of mosaics, an ancient craft that survived in workshops and artisan shops, did not originate in Ravenna but its greatest expression is to be found here. It was here that Christian iconology originated, a mixture of symbolism and realism, of Roman and Byzantine influence ( you will stop outside)

Pass By: Basilica San Vitale, Via San Vitale, 48121, Ravenna Italy

You will see ( just outside) the most relevant Byzantine church of the West

Pass By: Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Via di Roma 52, 48121, Ravenna Italy

You will then visit the Church of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo ( you will stop outside)

Pass By: Secret Ravenna Tours, 48121, Ravenna Italy

Secret Ravenna Tours provides private and small group tours in Ravenna and the surrounding region with top-rated local guides.