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Municipality of Ferrara
Ferrara (Frara ['between: ra] in the dialect of Ferrara) is a city of 135,031 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna, capital of the province.
Located in the lowlands of Emilia, the city lies on the banks of the Po fly that separates the city from the early medieval village of San Giorgio and demarcates the border with the new contemporary settlements in the south of the walls. Ferrara has a major golden age when in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance under the rule of the Este family is transformed into an arts center of great importance not only Italian but also European, could accommodate people such as Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, Nicolaus Copernicus and Paracelsus, Andrea Mantegna and Titian, Pico della Mirandola and Pietro Bembo. During the Renaissance in Ferrara is realized one of the most important urban projects in modern European history, the addition of Hercules, the first example of rational planning of urban spaces, commissioned in 1484 by Duke Ercole I d'Este (hence the name) architect Biagio Rossetti. The new part of town is called Arianuova both for its location outside the axis of the old medieval castle, and because it connoted to the end of the nineteenth century by large green areas free of buildings, known as "vegetable and flower gardens, the new powerful internal walls rossettiane. With this architectural Ferrara is considered by scholars to the first modern city in Europe.
UNESCO gives the title of World Heritage for the first time in 1995 as a city of the Renaissance and later, in 1999, he received further recognition for the Po Delta and the delights of Este. Ferrara is also one of the four provincial capitals (along with Bergamo, Lucca and Grosseto), whose old town has remained almost completely surrounded by walls which, in turn, have maintained intact their original appearance over the centuries. Ferrara, Ravenna and Pisa, is also one of the first cities mentioned in the silence of the Lauds of Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Ferrara is an ancient university (University of Ferrara) and the Archbishop's residence (Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio). It hosts important cultural centers: the National Gallery of Palazzo dei Diamanti, the headquarters of the Hermitage Foundation Italy, the National Archaeological Museum, the Museum of the Risorgimento and the Resistance, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 'De Filippo Pisis', the Museum of Cathedral, the Museo Giovanni Boldini and many other museums.
The contemporary city is based on an economy based on agricultural and industrial production that make it a center of primary importance due to the presence of numerous plants found in the petrochemical industry, small and medium enterprises. The areas are those most representative of the chemical industry, metal industry, electrical and textile industries and food industries. In addition, road and rail networks within the part of both regional and national commercial channels due to the presence of adequate infrastructure such as the A13 motorway, the railway goods yard of the port and airports located in Pontelagoscuro connecting the city to the Po and the Mediterranean Sea.

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