Events and initiatives

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

The Crèche on the water - Natale Sub

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.

The Farmer’s market –Colours and Flavours of Ferrara

This market is organized fortnightly at Piazza Municipale or at Piazza Castello and it hosts producers from all over the Region.

Panarea 2012 - Festival of the Ferrara's bread

Panarea is a national festival dedicated to bread, pizza, piadina, pasta, bakery products, and traditional wheat-based products of Italian cuisine.

Truffle, Bread and Ferrarese Pearls Festival

Two weekends dedicated to the delicious truffle, bread and products from our area.

Guercino, un nuovo sguardo. Opere provenienti da Forlì e da altri luoghi nascosti

The exhibition, hosted at the church of San Lorenzo, displays twenty large works, most of them altarpieces, by Guercino and his students, which until now were hidden from the public eye because they were kept in places that could not be visited