Events and initiatives

"The Garden that doesn't exist" - Dani Karavan

Dani Karavan exhibition at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS)

Articles from the Old days - Antiques and Craft Market

Street market for antiques and objects to collect.

Artistic Crafts Street Market

The exhibition spaces are designed to harmonize with the preciousness of art and architecture of the city center.

Ballooning in Ferrara

In Ferrara you may go in balloon all the year round!

Making a name for himself in Paris during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Boldini established his chic, “fashionable” style of portrait painting in the epicentre of modernity and elegance. He used his distinct painterly style to immortalise the protagonists and celebrities of that legendary era, from Robert de Montesquiou and Cléo de Mérode to Lina Cavalieri and Marchesa Casati

Christmas Concert by Italian Air Force Band

Christmas in Ferrara 2018 and New Year’s Eve 2019

Events for kids and adults in the city centre: markets, shows, themed exhibitions, and much more

Concert Season 2018/2019

Closing a perfect circle, Ferrara Musica turns 30 years old, celebrating them with the three ensembles founded by the great conductor whom our Municipal Theatre is entitled to, ensembles which accompanies the story of the Theatre from 1989 until today: the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra’, which from this year has residency in the city of Ferrara

Courbet and Nature

Gustave Courbet returns to Italy 50 years after the last show dedicated to him. Palazzo dei Diamanti pays tribute to him with an important retrospective that follows the career of the great French master, exploring in depth his ample production of landscape paintings and his unique relationship with nature

Dance Season 2018/2019

The new dance programme is divided into a contemporary dance Festival, during the Fall mid-season, and a second mid-season until Spring 2019

Ferrara in Jazz

From October to April the Torrione San Giovanni, a splendid round tower along the Renaissance city walls, becomes a venue for jazz lovers

Ferrara sotto le stelle 2018

Ferrara sotto le Stelle is renown as one of the most qualified summer festival in Italy, with prestigious names and talented young artists.

Friday Farmer’s Market

Natural fresh products from our countryside.

Lampi sublimi a Ferrara

Bastianino and the construction of San Paolo. Exhibition at the National Picture Gallery of Ferrara.

Main Events in Ferrara

Cultural events, art, concerts, exhibitions, music and entertainment in the Estense city.

Nativities in the world

Ada Vecchi Simani shows her collection of over a thousand Nativity scenes from all over the world.

New Year's Celebration

New Year’s Eve in Ferrara is one of the most peculiar events in Italy: a big party in the city centre and the great fireworks show on the Castle

Opera Season 2019

The Season offers both traditional works and new proposals, to make feel people “home”, and also encourage young people to get to know theatre

The Crèche on the water

Organized by Gruppo Subacqueo Ferrarese. A torchlight parade of scuba divers who will deliver the Holy Child in his traditional crèche, on the moat of the Castle.