Ravenna UNESCO Heritage Self-guided Walking Tour
About This Tour
Ravenna, UNESCO Sites and the Culture of the City Walk the streets of Italy's most underestimated city and discover the mosaics, exiles, empires, and hidden stories pressed into its ancient walls, with easy GPS navigation and flexible timing.
What You'll Experience
Walk Through Time—Every Step Reveals Centuries of Hidden Stories.
Explore UNESCO sites where Ravenna’s golden past still shines.
Discover the stunning Byzantine Mosaics Of Ravenna.
See a mosaic of a dancer-turned-empress whose gaze follows you
See 1,500-year-old mosaics glowing softly inside an ancient mausoleum
Uncover hidden history in a basilica—where ghostly hands still glow in gold
Discover a hidden marsh city whose quiet secrets once protected empires
Face the stone dome carved from a single block.
Find the Tomb of Dante, where Florence’s apology still burns.
See fishes swim above mosaics in the crypt of Basilica of Saint Francis.
Uncover the stone carpets hidden beneath modern Ravenna.
Walk through Rocca Brancaleone, once a prison, now an open-air cinema.
What's Included
Included
- Access to the Ravenna UNESCO Heritage Self-guided Walking Tour on our App
- 25+ narration points of popular locations in Ravenna
- Detailed directions to both well-known attractions and hidden spots
- Fully offline map – no need for Wi-Fi or data.
- Audio Guide
Not Included
- In Person Guide
- Entry fee of The Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo ($13.50)
- Entry fee of The Battistero Neoniano ($13.50)
- Entry fee of The Museo Byron e del Risorgimento ($11.74)
- Entry fee of The Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra ($7.04)
- Entry fee of The Basilica of San Vitale ($11.15)
- Entry fee of The Mausoleo di Galla Placidia ($12.32)
Route you'll explore
Tour Starting Point
Piazza Anita Garibaldi
48121 Ravenna, Province of Ravenna, Italy
Tour Stops
Piazza Anita Garibaldi
An empress survived a shipwreck and built Ravenna's oldest church to keep her promise. A Lombard warrior turned against his own people to defend this city. Both stories start right here.
Through the Arch
A graceful arch opens into a shaded courtyard where café tables sit quietly under the sun. Glance right, a narrow lane stretches beside it. Keep walking straight in that direction.
Piazzetta degli Ariani
A wall named after a warrior who chose this city over his own people. A baptistery built for a faith that was later purged from its own walls. Two UNESCO stories hiding in one quiet square.
Swamp Shield
A swamp saved an empire. Ravenna was built on wooden pilings in thick marshland, chosen as capital not for its beauty but because the land itself stopped armies before they reached the walls.
Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
Theodoric built it. The Byzantines took it and erased him from the walls. But they missed the hands. Fifteen centuries later, ghostly fingers still reach out from the gold. UNESCO site.
Cellar Saints & Oven Kings
Venice feared looting, so Ravenna hid its marble statues inside ovens and wine cellars. Emperors and saints spent years surrounded by bread and heat. When recovered, the marble had turned golden-brown.
Dante's Tomb
Dante's bones were hidden in a wall for three centuries, dug up during a World War, and reburied twice. Florence sends oil every year to keep a lamp burning. A very expensive, very late apology.
Basilica of Saint Francis
The flooded crypt beneath this basilica is permanently underwater. The mosaics sit below the surface. Fish have moved in and seem entirely unbothered. Dante's funeral was held upstairs.
Biblioteca Classense
Monks slept in this hall at night to guard their books. The Aula Magna is one of the finest library rooms in Italy. Thousands of rare volumes still watch over visitors from floor-to-ceiling shelves.
Too Heavy To Take
Ravenna held civilization together while everything around it collapsed. Then Charlemagne stripped its treasures for his German capital. What survived did so only because it was too heavy to carry away.
Piazza Arcivescovado
A 6th-century ivory throne so extraordinary it was made for a bishop who never sat on it. A tiny UNESCO chapel considered one of the smallest World Heritage Sites in the world. Both are inside here.
Battistero Neoniano
One of Ravenna's oldest monuments sits below modern street level, because the city has been sinking for fifteen centuries. To enter the Neonian Baptistery, you descend back to Roman ground. UNESCO site.
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Built on a site that has held a cathedral since 407 AD. Beneath the current floor, workers found the original early Christian mosaics still lying there. The present resting directly and quite literally on top of the past.
Piazza John Fitzgerald Kennedy
This modern square was built directly over the ancient Roman Forum. Archaeologists working anywhere here keep striking another layer of the lost city. Roman Ravenna is right beneath your feet.
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