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Ferrara City Walls – Porta degli Angeli loop from Ferrara

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Ferrara City Walls – Porta degli Angeli loop from Ferrara

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Ferrara City Walls – Porta degli Angeli loop from Ferrara

01:05

4.26km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 27, 2026

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550 m

Ferrara City Walls

Highlight • Historical Site

The walls of Ferrara are a fortified wall that originally completely surrounded the Este city for a total extension of about thirteen kilometers while today this is reduced to about nine kilometers.

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1.08 km

History
Starting from February 1550, Ercole II d'Este had the Rossettiano Torrione di Francolino transformed into a real residential structure, called Rotonda, exalted in verse precisely in that year by …

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1.60 km

Porta degli Angeli

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It opens in the Rossetti walls at the end of Corso Ercole I d'Este. Born as a watchtower, it was the ancient access to the ducal hunting estate of Barco, located where the "G. Bassani" Urban Park is now located.

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2.35 km

Porta degli Angeli

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History
Armed stronghold of the northern front of the Walls, the Gate with quadrangular tower was already in operation at the beginning of the 16th century, even if its final …

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2.39 km

Porta degli Angeli

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3.03 km

Francolino Tower – Montagnola Point

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History
First Torrione di Francolino, then Punta della Montagnola: an architecturally strategic site, changed over the centuries and still aesthetically fascinating today

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4.09 km

Torrione di San Giovanni

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Built between 1493 and 1497, the tower guarded the Porta of the same name located at the eastern end of the long decumanus of the Addizione Erculea. In 1518 Alfonso …

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4.26 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.94 km

209 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.60 km

1.25 km

1.05 km

232 m

107 m

Elevation

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Monday 25 May

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