Italy · Architecture

3-Hour Ravenna Mosaic Tour with Byzantine Churches and Dante's Tomb

3 Hours Round trip from Via San Vitale Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights

01 Admire the green and gold mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale
02 Step inside Galla Placidia's Mausoleum with its hypnotic deep blue mosaics
03 Pay tribute to Dante Alighieri at his tomb in Ravenna
04 Explore Piazza del Popolo and the stunning mosaics of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

Sign up for this tour and explore the highlights of Ravenna, discovering the secrets of this easy, pleasant town that was once a great political and cultural centre. Ravenna is renowned for its unparalleled Early Christian and Byzantine glass-and-gold wall mosaics dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries AD, still decorating the churches of what was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire.

Meet your tour guide and visit the superb Basilica of San Vitale, one of Western Europe's most important examples of Byzantine art and architecture, with its green and gold glittering mosaics dating back to 535-549 AD.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 3 Hours

Tour type Private

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Not included

Wheelchair access Yes

Languages English, Russian, Spanish

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Explore Ravenna's Byzantine Mosaics and Historic Landmarks

Meet your tour guide and visit the superb Basilica of San Vitale, one of Western Europe's most important examples of Byzantine art and architecture, with its green and gold glittering mosaics dating back to 535-549 AD. Very close to San Vitale is the late Roman Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, actually the private chapel of this powerful Regent-Empress who ruled the Western Roman Empire during 425-438 AD, coated with its hypnotic deep blue mosaics.
Pay tribute to the great Dante Alighieri, the world-renowned author of the Divine Comedy, by visiting his tomb. He died in Ravenna in 1321.
See the Basilica of San Francesco, with its flooded crypt.
Explore the beautiful Piazza del Popolo, Ravenna's main square, and after that head to the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, erected during the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths (493-510 AD). You will love its stunning mosaics dating back to the same age, showing Jesus Christ enthroned as a Roman emperor.
End the tour.