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- Governor's palace
- The Governor's palace, also called Palace of Justice or Palace of the Clock, was built in 1502 and looks onto the square named after Il Guercino.
- The Basilica Collegiata S. Biagio
- The Basilica Collegiata di S. Biagio is Cento's main church.
- Rocca
- TEMPORARILY CLOSED. The Fortress, together with Porta Pieve (Pieve Gate) is what remains of the ancient defensive system. The primitive building dates back to 1378 and was constructed on the order of the bishop of Bologna.
- The Jewish Ghetto
- Municipal Gallery "Il Guercino"
- The Municipal Gallery is housed in a Eighteenth-century building. It hosts the largest concentration in the world of masterpieces by our illustrious fellow citizen Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as “il Guercino” and his workshop
- Guercino, un nuovo sguardo. Opere provenienti da Forlì e da altri luoghi nascosti Until Dec 28, 2025
- The exhibition, hosted at the church of San Lorenzo, displays twenty large works, most of them altarpieces, by Guercino and his students, which until now were hidden from the public eye because they were kept in places that could not be visited
- Gallery of Modern Art "A. Bonzagni"
- Temporary closed. The Gallery of Modern Art in Cento, dedicated to the Centese painter Aroldo Bonzagni (1887-1918), was created thanks to the artist's sister who, since the 1960s donated important works to the municipal picture gallery both by his brother and by other artists related to him.
- Sandro Parmeggiani Museum
- In 1995 the donation of several paintings of the artist Sandro Parmeggiani, gave birth to a museum dedicated to him...
- Municipal Theatre
- The Theatre was built between 1856 and 1861 and was projected by A. Giordani from Cento.
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