Ravenna: Mosaics and Highlights Guided Tour with Admission Ticket
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Ravenna, Italy
- 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Ravenna—known for its eight UNESCO World Heritage sites, featuring Byzantine mosaics from the 5th and 6th centuries—has plenty for art lovers to see, but knowing where to get started can prove tricky. Take away the guesswork and maximize your vacation time with a small-group tour that takes you to some of the city's top treasures. Uncover early Christian art and Byzantine mosaics while a guide provides helpful context and insight.
- Enjoy the intimate feel of a small-group tour
- Check off several UNESCO World Heritage sites in just one day
- Gain insider knowledge with the help of your local guide
- Prebooked entry tickets save you from waiting around in lines
What's Included
- 2.5 hours small group tour
- Expert local guide
- Admission Tickets to the all mentioned sites
- Small groups led by expert guides
- Transportation to the meeting point
- Guided tour of Neonian Baptistery
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Basilica di Sant'Apollinare NuovoVia di Roma, 53, 48121 Ravenna RA, Italy
We will meet in front of the main entrance of Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. Your tour guide will be holding a signboard that says “Walks In Europe.”
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
2
Dante's Tomb
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
3
Basilica di San Francesco
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
4
Mausoleo di Galla Placidia
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
5
Basilica of San Vitale
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
6
Ravenna
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- Clients must arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start of the tour. This is due to the timed entry of the tickets.
- Tickets are timed and expire within 5 to 10 minutes.
- Please be advised that it is not possible to join the tour after it has commenced
- Sites visited during this tour are subject to occasional closures due to holy observances. In such cases, your guides will provide explanations from outside of the sites. For last-minute closures, modifications may be communicated at the tour start time.
- Guests are kindly requested to dress respectfully when visiting sacred sites.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 14 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Wonderfully detailed explanation of the mosaics including up close photos of detail that cannot be seen from the ground. Excellent communication skills and very personsble
The greatest Byzantine era mosaics of Ravenna should not be missed. These here in Italy are in better shape than the ones in Istanbul. Stunning at 1500 years old. Not kidding.
Very informative, a must do to understand all the history & learn about the significance of all the structures and monuments.
Great experience. Would have been better if we had some form of radio communication. Hard to hear the guide
Very well done! Marina was quite knowledgeable and very passionate about the sites!
Wonderful experience!
Our tour guide was well informed , personable , well organized and managed the group well. If only it was not ungodly on that day.
Excellent tour. Knowledgeable guide. Well organised. Communication from Viator was clear and very useful.
Our guide Frederika was very knowledgeable and gave us an explanation of the mosaics along with the history behind them. It is very helpful to have a guide so you know what you are looking at.
We enjoyed the tour. Our guide was very knowledgeable. It was very warm in July so bring water with you.
Wonderful. Stunning mosaics incredible history. Great guide. Small group. Not long walking. Plenty of time
We were very honered last week to have Rita as our guide in Ravenna and to share her vast knowledge of the history of the incredible mosaics. One of the best tours we’ve ever experienced. We highly recommend this beautiful tour
This was a wonderful tour, very interesting, and our guide Rita was exceptional. It meant a lot of standing and quite a lot of walking but for us it was fine - older people might find it rather tiring. (My friend and I are only 80).
Really good in depth tour, a lot of info, guide was very knowledgeable. Very good value for length of tour and small group size.
A marvelous tour with a very knowledgeable guide. Amazing history, details, context for everything we saw. Enthusiastically recommend!
So much more to learn about the UNESCO mosaics than I had ever imagined. The interpretation, of those in Ravenna, is so fascinating and accurate, according to the gospels. Beautiful works of art from so many centuries ago. Rita, our guide, was extremely knowledgeable and shared all of this information and answered any questions we had. She was an excellent tour guide and delightful to spend time with. I highly recommend!
Loved the tour and information that was shared by our wonderful guide. The mosaics were very impressive. Enjoyed that it was a smaller group, about 12-13. A definite must see.
Our tour guide was knowledgeable and kept us well informed. We went to a few of the must see monuments.
Our guide was amazing in explaining the biblical and historical references in the mosaics. The mosaics are incredible. This was a small group tour which was perfect. Highly recommend.
Our decent was very knowledgeable about everything we saw. Enjoyed all of the beautiful mosaics. Very well organized
Stunning mosaics from the 5th century. The guide was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. Best tour of our trip so far.
This was a great tour—our guide was very knowledgeable and a joy to listen to. We are very grateful to have participated in this experience (all 5 of us)!
Great tour....our guide was very knowledgeable of Ravenna's Moasic church history. The 4 sites visited were spectacular
Rossanna was fantastic. She was a great storyteller. She is passionate about the sites and knows her history. We really enjoyed listening to her.
It was great. Easy to follow. First look is breathtaking, beautiful. Very knowledgeable on the history.
Thoroughly knowledgeable and caring guide, who looked after our small group with expert attention. She spent time explaining how the Unesco sites we visit today were shaped by the history of Ravenna, its location and its role in Christianity and the Byzantine Empire. I couldn't recommend her more highly.
Our tour guide was very passionate about the history of the mosaics.
We enjoyed listening to all the details that she knew and shared with us.
Would highly recommend this tour!
Very disappointed We were told to meet at the train station and got there 15 minutes before the group started.
We waited until 10:20 and just went to the first church on the itinerary. Luckily, we found them.
Great walking tour with Rita. I learned a lot about the history of Ravenna, the mosaics and Dante. She also gave us good tips on where to eat and how to spend the rest of our time.
Our tour guide, Frederica, was so knowledgeable about all aspects of the mosaics from the history of Ravenna, including the original topography, centuries of culture, rulers, religious aspects and the materials used in the mosaics. There is no way we could have glare so much information on our own. We look forward to additional Viator tours in the future.
Great tour!! We were the only ones, so it became a private tour. Very knowledgeable guide, friendly, and she also added details about local life, foor, culture.
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