Private Audio Guided Walking Tour in Ravenna
- 1h 30m
- 7 languages
- Instant confirmation
- Private tour
Highlights
Experience your Ravenna vacation on your own, listening to the audio content of our app on your smartphone. It will be like having at your side a tour guide who will tell you the history, points of interest and curiosities of the city. Once organized, take your first step into town as your audio guide tells you surprising facts and curiosities about its streets. Look up at monuments and increase your understanding. Benefit from an audio guide without an expiry date plus no tickets to collect or meeting place. Listen to the audio guide online, or offline. The audio content is professionally created by a group of top authors and interpreted by TV and radio professionals. The smartphone is yours and you will therefore not have contact with unsanitary devices provided by third parties. There is no need to book or to be present at a specific time or date. The Audioguide can be downloaded and used immediately, it never expires, and any date/time indicated here is not binding!
Inclusions
What's included
- Audioguide App: 22 audio content for a total of 60 min.
- You may read the text of the audio files in the App.
- Audio guide without an expiry date.
- Section with information about city services (metro, airports, cinemas, events, etc.)
- Listen to the audio guide online, or offline.
- "Quiz" section to play and learn with short questions about the city
What's not
- The product IS NOT REFUNDABLE. It's not possible to offer refunds, exchanges, cancellations.
Itinerary
The Basilica of San Vitale is by far one of the greatest masterpieces of Byzantine architecture and art still in existence. It was Bishop Ecclesius who wanted its construction, but it was his successor Maximian who saw the completion of the monumental work.
The magnificent Mausoleum of Galla Placidia hides, inside a seemingly simple and modest building, a real treasure: some of the most beautiful mosaics from the Byzantine era.
The Neonian Baptistery, or the Orthodox Baptistery, owes its name to Bishop Neon, who, around 450 A.D., had the existing building altered, replacing the roof with the present dome and having the magnificent mosaic decoration made. It is interesting to note that the small temple, built on a much older Roman building, had been used as a baptistery a few decades earlier by Bishop Orso.
The Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, dating from the early decades of the sixth century, was commissioned by the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, who was faithful to the Arian cult, but around 561 it was reconsecrated to the Catholic faith. King Theodoric built the basilica as a palatine chapel, since his royal palace stood next to it, but when his reign ended, the church was first consecrated to St. Martin and then to St. Apollinaris, who had been the first bishop of Ravenna.
The Mausoleum of Theodoric, the only evidence in Italy of the funerary art of the Ostrogoths, was built near a necropolis around 520 at the behest of King Theodoric. Seen from the outside, the building is massive and imposing, but softened by arched niches carved along its sides. The structure has a ground floor with a decagonal base. The upper level has the same base but a smaller diameter, and a round dome.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- It is not necessary to start from this exact point. The Audioguide allows you to customize your tour.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- TravelMate
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This is a self-guided tour; you may access the audio tour anytime of the day.
How it compares in Ravenna
- Its from-price is 97% below the median of the 158 experiences we list in Ravenna.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 55 of 158.
About Ravenna
Ravenna is a small Italian city near the Adriatic coast whose early Christian churches are covered in glittering Byzantine mosaics.
Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire from AD 402, then of the Ostrogothic kingdom and later of Byzantine Italy, and eight of its early Christian buildings are on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The Basilica of San Vitale glows with gold mosaics, the tiny Mausoleum of Galla Placidia has a starry blue vault, and Sant'Apollinare Nuovo shows long processions of saints. Two baptisteries and the stone tomb of the Gothic king Theodoric are close by.
Top-ranked sights in Ravenna: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Mausoleo di Galla Placidia), Basilica of San Vitale (Basilica di San Vitale).
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