Darsenale

Top choice in Ravenna


This 1200-sq-metre brewpub and beer garden is Emilia-Romagna's most ambitious craft-beer undertaking yet. Local brewery Birra Bizantina flipped this long-abandoned former fertiliser warehouse along the docks into a hophead playground in 2019, opening with 18 beers on draught and a great pub menu of pala-style (rectangular) pizza, burgers etc. It now anchors the city's revitalising Darsena district.


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1. Mausoleo di Teodorico

0.38 MILES

Historically and architecturally distinct from Ravenna's other Unesco sites (there are no mosaics here), this two-storey mausoleum was built in 520 for…

2. Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

0.68 MILES

An old legend states that Pope Gregory the Great once ordered the Apollinare's mosaics to be blackened as they were distracting worshippers from prayer. A…

3. Battistero degli Ariani

0.69 MILES

The €1 entry here (unique among Ravenna's Unesco sites) is no reflection of the quality of the artistry inside. The baptistery's breathtaking dome mosaic,…

4. Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna

0.8 MILES

Arranged in a converted 15th-century monastery abutting a public garden, Ravenna's permanent art collection is backed up by regular temporary expos. The…

5. Tomba di Dante

0.86 MILES

A son of Florence, Italy's Sommo Poeta (supreme poet), Dante Alighieri, was expelled from the city of his birth in 1302 for political reasons and spent…

6. Mausoleo di Galla Placidia

0.95 MILES

In the same complex as Basilica di San Vitale, the small but equally incandescent Mausoleo di Galla Placidia was constructed for Galla Placidia, the half…

7. Basilica di San Vitale

0.99 MILES

Sometimes, after weeks of strolling around dark Italian churches, you can lose your sense of wonder. Not here! The lucid mosaics that adorn the altar of…

8. Museo TAMO

1 MILES

This newer museum doubles-down on Ravenna's extraordinary history of mosaic work by chronicling 12 centuries of history, using technology and multimedia…