Le Mura

Last Friday was beautiful and sunny, and I was inspired to walk up on the wall and take pictures. If you are not aware, Ferrara, the city where we live, is a walled city. The wall was built mostly during the 15th and 16th centuries. Ferrara was the capital of an important duchy for many centuries, beginning in the middle ages. Now, there are walking and biking trails both on top and around the exterior of the wall.

I only covered a very small portion of the wall (I believe the total circumference is something like 9 kilometers), but got some good shots of what it looks like in the area near Emily's school.

This is a view of the wall from the outside, as we approach it from our house.
This is the lane on top of the wall, where you can walk. It is nicely planted with trees on either side. This is a very popular place for joggers.

This is a view down along the wall from the outcropping shown in the first picture above. The road shown on the other side of the large, round building is Corso Porta Mare, the closest road to our house that enters through the wall.

This is a view looking down on the wall from the lane above onto some interesting ruins. Not sure what they used to be, but they looked kinda neat!

This is actually looking from the top of the wall inward, toward town. I believe that this is the Jewish Cemetery.

And of course, here is a local soccer team practicing just on the outside of the wall. The road in the background runs around the outside of the wall. You can pretty much circumnavigate the wall by car along the roads, with the occasional roundabout allowing access inside the wall. I don't believe that there are any actual working gates on any of the entrance roads, though some of the entrances are quite narrow.