Ravenna
Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century until its collapse in 476, after which it served as the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 159,000 residents
- Description: city in northern Italy
- Neighbors: Cervia, Cesena, Forlì, and Forlì-Cesena
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of San Vitale and Mausoleum of Galla Placidia.
Basilica of San Vitale
Church
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The Basilica of San Vitale is a late antique church in Ravenna, Italy. The sixth-century church is an important surviving example of early Byzantine art and architecture, and its mosaics in particular are some of the most-studied works in Byzantine art.
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
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The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a Late Antique Roman building in Ravenna, Italy, built between 425 and 450. It was added to the World Heritage List together with seven other structures in Ravenna in 1996.
Baptistery of Neon
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The Baptistery of Neon is a Roman religious building in Ravenna, northeastern Italy. The most ancient monument remaining in the city, it was partly erected on the site of a Roman bath.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porto Fuori and Classe.
Ravenna
- Categories: commune of Italy, big city, and locality
- Location: Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.4161° or 44° 24′ 58″ northLongitude
12.2018° or 12° 12′ 6″ eastPopulation
159,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
RANUnited Nations Location Code
IT RANOpen location code
8FPJC682+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 69300015OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3169561Wikidata ID
Q13364
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ravenna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ravenna”
- Amharic: “ራቬና”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥαβέννα”
- Arabic: “رافينا”
- Arabic: “ربنة”
- Aragonese: “Ravena”
- Armenian: “Ռավեննա”
- Arpitan: “Ravenna”
- Asturian: “Ravena”
- Asturian: “Ravenna”
- Aymara: “Ravenna”
- Azerbaijani: “Ravenna”
- Bashkir: “Равенна”
- Basque: “Ravenna”
- Belarusian: “Равена”
- Belarusian: “Равэнна”
- Bengali: “রাভেন্না”
- Bosnian: “Ravenna”
- Breton: “Ravenna”
- Bulgarian: “Равена”
- Catalan: “Ravenna”
- Cebuano: “Ravenna”
- Chechen: “Равенна”
- Chinese: “Ravenna”
- Chinese: “拉文納”
- Chinese: “拉溫納”
- Chinese: “拉韦纳”
- Chuvash: “Равенна”
- Croatian: “Ravenna”
- Czech: “Ravenna”
- Danish: “Ravenna”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ravenna”
- Dutch: “Ravenna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رافينا”
- Esperanto: “Ravenna”
- Esperanto: “Raveno”
- Estonian: “Ravenna”
- Finnish: “Ravenna”
- French: “Ravenna”
- French: “Ravenne”
- Galician: “Rávena”
- Georgian: “რავენა”
- German: “Ravenna”
- Gothic: “𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰”
- Gothic: “𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰”
- Greek: “Ραβέννα”
- Gujarati: “રાવેના”
- Hebrew: “רוונה”
- Hindi: “रवेना”
- Hindi: “रवेन्ना”
- Hungarian: “Ravenna”
- Icelandic: “Ravenna”
- Ido: “Ravenna”
- Indonesian: “Ravenna”
- Interlingua: “Ravenna”
- Irish: “Ravenna”
- Italian: “Ravenna”
- Japanese: “ラヴェンナ”
- Kannada: “ರವೆನ್ನ”
- Kannada: “ರವೆನ್ನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Равенна”
- Kirghiz: “Равенна”
- Korean: “라벤나”
- Kurdish: “Ravenna”
- Ladin: “Ravenna”
- Latin: “Ravenna”
- Latvian: “Ravenna”
- Lithuanian: “Ravena”
- Lombard: “Ravena”
- Low German: “Ravenna”
- Luxembourgish: “Ravenna”
- Macedonian: “Равена”
- Malagasy: “Ravenna”
- Malay: “Ravenna”
- Maltese: “Ravenna”
- Marathi: “रवेना”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ravenna”
- Moroccan Arabic: “راڤينا”
- Nauru: “Ravenna”
- Neapolitan: “Ravenna”
- Northern Frisian: “Ravenna (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Ravenna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ravenna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ravenna”
- Norwegian: “Ravenna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ravena”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rafenna”
- Ossetian: “Равеннæ”
- Persian: “راونا”
- Piemontese: “Ravënna”
- Polish: “Rawenna”
- Portuguese: “Ravena”
- Portuguese: “Ravenna”
- Quechua: “Ravenna”
- Romagnol: “Ravèna”
- Romanian: “Ravenna”
- Russian: “Равенна”
- Sanskrit: “रवेन्ना”
- Sardinian: “Ravenna”
- Scots: “Ravenna”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ravenna”
- Serbian: “Равена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ravenna”
- Sicilian: “Ravenna”
- Silesian: “Ravenna”
- Sinhala: “රාවනා”
- Slovak: “Ravenna”
- Slovenian: “Ravena”
- South Azerbaijani: “راونا”
- Spanish: “Ravena”
- Spanish: “Rávena”
- Spanish: “Ravenna”
- Swahili: “Ravenna”
- Swedish: “Ravenna”
- Swiss German: “Ravenna”
- Tagalog: “Ravena”
- Tagalog: “Ravenna”
- Tamil: “ராவென்னா”
- Tatar: “Равенна”
- Telugu: “రవేనా”
- Thai: “ราเวนนา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ravenna”
- Turkish: “Ravenna”
- Ukrainian: “Равенна”
- Urdu: “راوینا”
- Venetian: “Ravena”
- Vietnamese: “Ravenna”
- Volapük: “Ravenna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ravenna”
- Welsh: “Ravenna”
- Western Armenian: “Ռաւեննա”
- Western Frisian: “Ravenna”
- Western Panjabi: “راوینا”
- Wu Chinese: “拉韦纳”
- Yue Chinese: “拉文納”
- “Ravêna”
- “Ravenna”
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