Private Guided E-bike Tour in Ferrara
Overview
Ferrara, the capital of bicycles, is a city suspended in time, where the tourist will have the sensation of traveling between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance while remaining surrounded by greenery.
To spend a sensational experience, however, it must be visited entirely.
To fully enjoy it in a reasonable time, the best way is to use an E-Bike, the pedal assisted electric bike that allows quick and comfortable travel, without giving up curious stops at the points of greatest interest, souvenir photos and breathtaking views of the points " wow "!
With the E-Bike Travel guided tour you can experience the real atmosphere of Ferrara while having fun outdoors just like its citizens!
To spend a sensational experience, however, it must be visited entirely.
To fully enjoy it in a reasonable time, the best way is to use an E-Bike, the pedal assisted electric bike that allows quick and comfortable travel, without giving up curious stops at the points of greatest interest, souvenir photos and breathtaking views of the points " wow "!
With the E-Bike Travel guided tour you can experience the real atmosphere of Ferrara while having fun outdoors just like its citizens!
Inclusions
- E-Bike (pedal assisted bicycle)
- Snacks - bottle of water + choice between dried fruit or Mediterranean crackers
What to expect
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Ferrara, Ferrara, Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna
Easy e-bike ride. Suitable for all skill levels. Easy to walk white slopes. Also recommended for families with children, the elderly and mixed groups.
Guided tour to discover the naturalistic and urbanistic wonders of Ferrara. The main stages of tourist interest, such as Via Ercole I d'Este, Massari park, monumental charterhouse, Bassani urban park, medieval walls, the countryside in the heart of the city, Jewish cemetery, Ariostea square, the towers and access doors to the Renaissance city, the Paolo Mazza stadium, Piazza del Municipio, Piazza Trento Trieste and the Duomo, Via delle Volte, the oldest tavern in the world, and finally the majestic Estense Castle.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Corso Ercole I d"Este, Corso Ercole, Ferrara Italy
Corso Ercole I d'Este is an important Renaissance urban work commissioned by the Duke of Ferrara Ercole I d'Este and commissioned to the court architect Biagio Rossetti. The works began in 1492 and ended around 1510.
The course from the Estense Castle reaches the Porta degli Angeli on the walls.
The fundamental junction of the addition was and is the Quadrivio degli Angeli, which at its corners presents Palazzo dei Diamanti, Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati and Palazzo Turchi di Bagno.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Parco Massari, Corso Porta Mare, 44100, Ferrara Italy
The Massari park is the largest and most well-known public park in Ferrara within the city walls, and was the garden of the adjacent sixteenth-century Massari palace.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Certosa di Ferrara - Cimitero Monumentale, Via Borso 1, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The monumental cemetery of the Certosa di Ferrara is the main burial place of the city, located within the walls of Ferrara, included in the area of the Addizione Erculea.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Porta degli Angeli, Corso Ercole I d'Este 37, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Porta degli Angeli is a lookout tower which later also served as the gate of Ferrara along the northern city walls.
The tower was built towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. Its name derives from the ancient fifteenth-century toponym of Corso Ercole I d'Este, once called Via degli Angeli.
The construction of the gate is part of the urban plan of the Herculean Addition, commissioned by Ercole I d'Este in 1492 and completed by the architect Biagio Rossetti.
Duration: 2 minutes
Pass By: Parco Urbano G. Bassani, Via Bacchelli, Ferrara Italy
The Giorgio Bassani urban park is a large area between the walls of Ferrara and the Po river.
The area in which this green expanse is located north of the walls of Ferrara has been preserved over time by the urbanization that has affected all the other suburban areas of the city and, since 2003, has been dedicated to the memory of Giorgio Bassani.
Stop At: Piazza Ariostea, 44121, Ferrara Italy
Piazza Ariostea, formerly Piazza Nuova and for a short period also Piazza Napoleone, is an important square in Ferrara commissioned by Ercole I d'Este and built with the urban project of the court architect Biagio Rossetti.
It has a rectangular shape with a lowered central ring made in 1933 for the Palio races. At the center of the square stands the sixteenth-century column designed by Ercole Grandi from Ferrara on which, since 1833, the statue of Ludovico Ariosto, the poet from whom the square takes its name, has been placed.
Among the buildings that overlook it, we should mention Palazzo Rondinelli and Palazzo Strozzi Bevilacqua, the latter with the artistic marble balcony in the corner.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Porta Paola, Via Bologna 1B, 44122, Ferrara Italy
Porta Paola, in the past also Porta San Paolo, Porta Paula and Porta Reno, is a monumental building located at the southern entrance to Ferrara placed on the city walls in the seventeenth century.
The recent construction of the gate dates back to 1612 and its design was entrusted by the cardinal legate Orazio Spinola to the architect Giovan Battista Aleotti, who was very active in Ferrara at that time, even after the devolution of Ferrara. During the following century, with the changed political situation, it lost its military function and became one of the most important duty collection points in the city, with numerous employees.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Stadio Paolo Mazza, Corso Piave 28, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Paolo Mazza stadium (initially known as the Littorio stadium then as the Municipal stadium) is the main football sports facility in Ferrara and its province.
Located in the Rione Giardino, west of Ferrara within the city walls, it was built in the immediate vicinity of the place where the Piazza d'Armi field stood, an old playground dating back to 1919.
Stop At: Ferrara Cathedral, Piazza della Cattedrale, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Cathedral of San Giorgio Martire is the main place of Catholic worship in Ferrara, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio.
It rises in the center of the city, in front of the Town Hall, next to the ancient Piazza delle Erbe and is connected to the Archbishop's palace through a covered vault on via Guglielmo degli Adelardi.
Pope Urban III is buried in the cathedral.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Via delle Volte, Via Capo delle Volte Via Coperta, Ferrara Italy
Via delle Volte is located in the medieval center of Ferrara.
The arches that characterize it date back above all to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries but its almost rectilinear layout dates back to the oldest urban development that ran along the ancient course of the Po before it deviated in 1152.
Pass By: Via San Romano, Ferrara Italy
Its historical route starts from the piazza del Travaglio (piazza di Porta Reno) and, after passing via Carlo Mayr (once via di Ripagrande), arrives at piazza Trento e Trieste (formerly piazza del Mercato). Close to piazza del Travaglio, until 1608, two doors opened (one of these was Porta San Romano) which were then closed with the opening of the new Porta Paula.
Stop At: Piazza Trento e Trieste, 44121, Ferrara Italy
In the historic center, Piazza Trento e Trieste, the ancient Piazza delle Erbe (for the market that was held there), is the main square of Ferrara.
The medieval square was built together with the cathedral and since then has assumed the value of the city center, around which the main seats of political, economic and religious power overlooked.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Via Guglielmo degli Adelardi, 44121 Ferrara FE, Italy
Via Guglielmo degli Adelardi, or also Via degli Adelardi (formerly Via Gorgadello), is located in the historic center of Ferrara next to the Cathedral of San Giorgio.
Stop At: Al Brindisi, Via Adelardi, 11, 44100 Ferrara FE, Italy
The oldest wine shop in the world is in Ferrara. A place in the Guinness Book of Records declared a Historical Place of Italy.
The "al Brindisi" wine shop in Ferrara, originally "Hostaria del Chiuchiolino" is the oldest wine shop in the world.
The first written documentation dates back to 1435, the year in which the tavern was already famous.
Among the famous people who frequented it there are: Benvenuto Cellini, Tiziano Vecellio, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso.
In the fifteenth century, the place was reached by boat from the current via degli Adelardi, at the time via del Gorgadello and close to a small inlet that favored its landing, ... a small inlet or "whirlpool" created by a drain of the rainwater: hence the ancient name of "via Gorgadello".
On the first floor of the building, above the current wine cellar, raised by the urban architect Biagio Rossetti, Niccolò Copernico, graduated in Ferrara in 1503, completed his studies.
In 1973 it was visited by the unforgettable pope Karol Wojtyla.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Castello Estense, Largo Castello 1, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Estense Castle, also called Castello di San Michele, is the most representative monument of the city of Ferrara. It is located in the center of the Renaissance city and with its four towers it allows a panoramic view of the entire territory. The fortress, which is a cultural asset, has over time become the seat of government and administration. Since the twentieth century it has also become a temporary and permanent museum.
Duration: 10 minutes
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Ferrara, Ferrara, Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna
Easy e-bike ride. Suitable for all skill levels. Easy to walk white slopes. Also recommended for families with children, the elderly and mixed groups.
Guided tour to discover the naturalistic and urbanistic wonders of Ferrara. The main stages of tourist interest, such as Via Ercole I d'Este, Massari park, monumental charterhouse, Bassani urban park, medieval walls, the countryside in the heart of the city, Jewish cemetery, Ariostea square, the towers and access doors to the Renaissance city, the Paolo Mazza stadium, Piazza del Municipio, Piazza Trento Trieste and the Duomo, Via delle Volte, the oldest tavern in the world, and finally the majestic Estense Castle.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Corso Ercole I d"Este, Corso Ercole, Ferrara Italy
Corso Ercole I d'Este is an important Renaissance urban work commissioned by the Duke of Ferrara Ercole I d'Este and commissioned to the court architect Biagio Rossetti. The works began in 1492 and ended around 1510.
The course from the Estense Castle reaches the Porta degli Angeli on the walls.
The fundamental junction of the addition was and is the Quadrivio degli Angeli, which at its corners presents Palazzo dei Diamanti, Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati and Palazzo Turchi di Bagno.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Parco Massari, Corso Porta Mare, 44100, Ferrara Italy
The Massari park is the largest and most well-known public park in Ferrara within the city walls, and was the garden of the adjacent sixteenth-century Massari palace.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Certosa di Ferrara - Cimitero Monumentale, Via Borso 1, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The monumental cemetery of the Certosa di Ferrara is the main burial place of the city, located within the walls of Ferrara, included in the area of the Addizione Erculea.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Porta degli Angeli, Corso Ercole I d'Este 37, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Porta degli Angeli is a lookout tower which later also served as the gate of Ferrara along the northern city walls.
The tower was built towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. Its name derives from the ancient fifteenth-century toponym of Corso Ercole I d'Este, once called Via degli Angeli.
The construction of the gate is part of the urban plan of the Herculean Addition, commissioned by Ercole I d'Este in 1492 and completed by the architect Biagio Rossetti.
Duration: 2 minutes
Pass By: Parco Urbano G. Bassani, Via Bacchelli, Ferrara Italy
The Giorgio Bassani urban park is a large area between the walls of Ferrara and the Po river.
The area in which this green expanse is located north of the walls of Ferrara has been preserved over time by the urbanization that has affected all the other suburban areas of the city and, since 2003, has been dedicated to the memory of Giorgio Bassani.
Stop At: Piazza Ariostea, 44121, Ferrara Italy
Piazza Ariostea, formerly Piazza Nuova and for a short period also Piazza Napoleone, is an important square in Ferrara commissioned by Ercole I d'Este and built with the urban project of the court architect Biagio Rossetti.
It has a rectangular shape with a lowered central ring made in 1933 for the Palio races. At the center of the square stands the sixteenth-century column designed by Ercole Grandi from Ferrara on which, since 1833, the statue of Ludovico Ariosto, the poet from whom the square takes its name, has been placed.
Among the buildings that overlook it, we should mention Palazzo Rondinelli and Palazzo Strozzi Bevilacqua, the latter with the artistic marble balcony in the corner.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Porta Paola, Via Bologna 1B, 44122, Ferrara Italy
Porta Paola, in the past also Porta San Paolo, Porta Paula and Porta Reno, is a monumental building located at the southern entrance to Ferrara placed on the city walls in the seventeenth century.
The recent construction of the gate dates back to 1612 and its design was entrusted by the cardinal legate Orazio Spinola to the architect Giovan Battista Aleotti, who was very active in Ferrara at that time, even after the devolution of Ferrara. During the following century, with the changed political situation, it lost its military function and became one of the most important duty collection points in the city, with numerous employees.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Stadio Paolo Mazza, Corso Piave 28, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Paolo Mazza stadium (initially known as the Littorio stadium then as the Municipal stadium) is the main football sports facility in Ferrara and its province.
Located in the Rione Giardino, west of Ferrara within the city walls, it was built in the immediate vicinity of the place where the Piazza d'Armi field stood, an old playground dating back to 1919.
Stop At: Ferrara Cathedral, Piazza della Cattedrale, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Cathedral of San Giorgio Martire is the main place of Catholic worship in Ferrara, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio.
It rises in the center of the city, in front of the Town Hall, next to the ancient Piazza delle Erbe and is connected to the Archbishop's palace through a covered vault on via Guglielmo degli Adelardi.
Pope Urban III is buried in the cathedral.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Via delle Volte, Via Capo delle Volte Via Coperta, Ferrara Italy
Via delle Volte is located in the medieval center of Ferrara.
The arches that characterize it date back above all to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries but its almost rectilinear layout dates back to the oldest urban development that ran along the ancient course of the Po before it deviated in 1152.
Pass By: Via San Romano, Ferrara Italy
Its historical route starts from the piazza del Travaglio (piazza di Porta Reno) and, after passing via Carlo Mayr (once via di Ripagrande), arrives at piazza Trento e Trieste (formerly piazza del Mercato). Close to piazza del Travaglio, until 1608, two doors opened (one of these was Porta San Romano) which were then closed with the opening of the new Porta Paula.
Stop At: Piazza Trento e Trieste, 44121, Ferrara Italy
In the historic center, Piazza Trento e Trieste, the ancient Piazza delle Erbe (for the market that was held there), is the main square of Ferrara.
The medieval square was built together with the cathedral and since then has assumed the value of the city center, around which the main seats of political, economic and religious power overlooked.
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Via Guglielmo degli Adelardi, 44121 Ferrara FE, Italy
Via Guglielmo degli Adelardi, or also Via degli Adelardi (formerly Via Gorgadello), is located in the historic center of Ferrara next to the Cathedral of San Giorgio.
Stop At: Al Brindisi, Via Adelardi, 11, 44100 Ferrara FE, Italy
The oldest wine shop in the world is in Ferrara. A place in the Guinness Book of Records declared a Historical Place of Italy.
The "al Brindisi" wine shop in Ferrara, originally "Hostaria del Chiuchiolino" is the oldest wine shop in the world.
The first written documentation dates back to 1435, the year in which the tavern was already famous.
Among the famous people who frequented it there are: Benvenuto Cellini, Tiziano Vecellio, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso.
In the fifteenth century, the place was reached by boat from the current via degli Adelardi, at the time via del Gorgadello and close to a small inlet that favored its landing, ... a small inlet or "whirlpool" created by a drain of the rainwater: hence the ancient name of "via Gorgadello".
On the first floor of the building, above the current wine cellar, raised by the urban architect Biagio Rossetti, Niccolò Copernico, graduated in Ferrara in 1503, completed his studies.
In 1973 it was visited by the unforgettable pope Karol Wojtyla.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Castello Estense, Largo Castello 1, 44121, Ferrara Italy
The Estense Castle, also called Castello di San Michele, is the most representative monument of the city of Ferrara. It is located in the center of the Renaissance city and with its four towers it allows a panoramic view of the entire territory. The fortress, which is a cultural asset, has over time become the seat of government and administration. Since the twentieth century it has also become a temporary and permanent museum.
Duration: 10 minutes
Additional information
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- Face masks required for travelers in public areas
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Ticket delivery
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.