Ravenna, the capital of mosaics

Legend has it that the Byzantines were a fabulous and mysterious people, qualities that certainly also apply to one of their main cities – Ravenna, the former capital of the Western Empire. Ravenna is a European "superstar" city which attracts visitors from the four corners of the world.

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They come here to see – at least once in their lives – its unparalleled Byzantine mosaics with complex allegorical meanings.

It is not by accident that as many as eight of the monuments of Ravenna have been included in the World Heritage List: the Basilica of San Vitale, the Mausoleums of Galla Placidia and Theodoric, the Basilicas of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo and Sant'Apollinare in Classe, two baptisteries (Battistero degli Ariani and Battistero Neoniano) and the Chapel of Sant'Andrea in the Museo Arcivescovile.