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find Ferrara's bike-friendly streets and frozen-in-time palazzi relatively unexplored and
deliciously tranquil.
Historically Ferrara was once the domain of the powerful Este clan, rivals to Florence's
Medici in power and prestige, who endowed the city with its signature building - a huge
castle complete with moat positioned slap-bang in the city centre. Ferrara suffered damage
from bombing raids during WWII, but its historical core remains intact. Of particular in-
terest is the former Jewish ghetto, the region's largest and oldest, which prevailed from
1627 until 1859.
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