In the heart of the Po Valley, Ferrara's palaces of pink marble and red brick, straight streets and humanist frescoes combine ...

8 a.m.: Ferrara has produced some of Italy's best marathon runners and jogging enthusiasts can join the locals for a run on the town's grass covered, tree-lined medieval walls which form an ...

After a day in the narrow streets of medieval Ferrara, we turned our backs on the castle, took a deep breath and launched ourselves into a more modern world. We had come to Ferrara to see how ...

The skeleton of a Medieval woman has been discovered near Bologna, alongside the tiny bones of the foetus she delivered in her grave. Experts from the University of Ferrara who found the remains ...

Got 48 hours to explore Ferrara, the picturesque Italian town famed for its Renaissance art and bicycle-peddling natives?

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

A colourful cardinal's rich legacy Intrigued by the story of a powerful Renaissance cleric, David Willey went to Ferrara - a city with the appeal of Florence, but without the crowds ...

SCHOOLCHILDREN took a step back to Tudor times when medieval minstrel Dante Ferrara paid them a visit. Pupils at Pickhill Primary School, near Thirsk, dressed as kings, queens, knights, princes ...

WHY FERRARA? Unlike so much of Italy, this little historical jewel of a city is not overrun by visitors. Ruled for many centuries by the d'Este family, it has a beautifully preserved medieval ...

Mr Ferrara is set to use the grant to strengthen the museum's medieval coin collection, which currently has a number of gaps.