Events
Ferrara International Piano Festival
From June 28th to July 12th, 2020
Ferrara International Piano Festival is a series of concerts open to visitors and master classes open to students of all nationalities.
Concerts in the Foyer 2017
Afternoon and evening concerts in the refined and cosy atmosphere of the Theatre's Foyer
Artistic Crafts Street Market
Third Saturday and Sunday of every month (except the months of July, and August )
The exhibition spaces are designed to harmonize with the preciousness of art and architecture of the city center.
Opera Season 2019/20
December 19th, 2019; January 10th, 12th; February 7th and 9th; April 21st ; May 3rd, 4th, 7th and 23rd, 2020
The Season offers both traditional works and new proposals, to make feel people “home”, and also encourage young people to get to know theatre
Rebel women. Renata di Francia and Giulia Gonzaga
From the December 15th, 2017 to March 11th, 2018
A contemporary point of view on the female side of Renaissance. On display, precious miniatures by Agnieszka Kossowska, for the first time in Ferrara, to remind us the story of Renata di Francia, Giulia Gonzaga and other “rebel” women of the Italian Renaissance.
Cento Carnival
February 9th, 16th, 23rd - March, 1st, 8th 2020
A grand celebration with carnival floats up to 15 metres high and hundreds of figurants in colourful costumes
Concert Season 2019/2020
September, 21st, 2019 – May 8th, 2020
The program 2019-2020 of the Concert Season of Ferrara Musica proposes nine months of appointments in the sign of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven and the great orchestras of Claudio Abbado, together with a lot of chamber music and piano concerts of great interest
Giardini Estensi
May 4th and 5th, 2019
Exhibition market of rare plants and garden tools.
The Franco Farina collection – Art and avant-garde in Ferrara 1963/1993
December 21st 2019 – March 15th 2020.
Between the 1960s and 1990s, Ferrara was an important avant-garde arts centre, thanks to Franco Farina, curator of the Modern Arts Gallery at Palazzo dei Diamanti. This experience can be witnessed by his personal art collection.
Slow Spring 2020
From March, 21st to June, 21st 2020
Weekends in the most suggestive places of the Po Delta Park, that will allow to enjoy the territory through forms of slow tourism
FerraraMarathon e Half Marathon 2019
September 29th, 2019
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 in Ferrara takes place a new edition of the Marathon and Half Marathon, the footrace that involves thousands of athletes.
X International Po Delta Birwatching and Nature Tourism Fair 2020
From April, 30th to May, 3rd 2020
Initiatives dedicated to birdwatching and slow tourism during the International Birdwatching Fair
Articles from the Old days - Antiques and Craft Market
First Saturday and Sunday of every month (except August).
Street market for antiques and objects to collect.
Street Market of Organic Products
Second Saturday and Sunday of each month (except July, August, December, January).
Every second Sunday of the month, the market of Organic products is held in the historic centre of Ferrara.
Comacchio: Carnival on the water
February, 16th and 23rd 2020
Parade of boats and masks on the streets and canals of Comacchio
EuropAFerrara
September, 25th, 26th, 27th, 2020
Flavours, tastes and colours from all over Europe
Internazionale a Ferrara 2020
October 2nd-4th, 2020
A series of free lectures and meetings held by journalists and authors from all over the world
De Nittis and the revolution of seeing
1st December 2019 – 13th April 2020
De Nittis, like Boldini, was a prominent figure on the late-nineteenth-century Parisian scene throughout his career, first as avant-garde exponent of the realist school in southern Italy, and later as a full-fledged part of the Parisian innovators with whom he shared interests in photography and Japanese art, fields that profoundly influenced his work.
Friday Farmer’s Market
Every Friday
Natural fresh products from our countryside.
Over the frame. Gaetano Previati and the artistic renewal between Ferrara and Milano
February 9th – June 7th, 2020
For the 100th anniversary of Gaetano Previati’s death, Ferrara pays a homage to this great Symbolist painter, with an exhibition at the Este Castle, within the project "L'arte per l'arte", dedicated to local heritage
Jewish Ferrara
From Novembre 13th, 2019 to March 1st, 2020
Jews and Ferrara, a long and very deep relationship. A well-known history, which will be explained at the MEIS Museum until March 2020.
Bike Night Ferrara - mare
June 13th, 2020
100 km at night, from the city of bicycles to the sea, along the cyclepath of the Po river, to celebrate the beginning of Summer!
