The Bishop, Saint Peter and the City of Roses
A dream, a flowering crozier and a Greek name
A bishop seeking refuge, a dream of Saint Peter and a crozier covered in roses: the legend that made Rovigo the city of roses.
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Mysterious Rovigo
Less than a kilometre in the historic centre, five stops and five centuries. You start from the castle towers and end at the Rotonda, passing the churchyard where the Dometto once stood, the square that remembers a Nile explorer and the church that housed the Inquisition.
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- Duration
- About 1 hour
- How
- On foot, about 1 km
- 1
The Bishop, Saint Peter and the City of Roses
Start at the castle towers, where the legend of the bishop and the roses begins.
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The suspended hammer: the Madonna del Dometto
The small baptistery demolished in 1737 stood in front of the Duomo. Inside, look for the fragment of the Madonna delle Grazie.
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Giovanni Miani, the man from Rovigo who chased the sources of the Nile
In piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, the Accademia dei Concordi keeps the memory of the Nile explorer alive.
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The tribunal in the friary: the Inquisition in Rovigo
The church of San Francesco: the tribunal of the Holy Office sat here until 1797.
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Celio Rodigino, the humanist Rovigo dismissed and then called back
Finish at the Rotonda, between the legend of the witches and the memory of the humanist Celio Rodigino.
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The suspended hammer: the Madonna del Dometto
The little baptistery in front of the Duomo and the fresco that would not be destroyed
In 1737 the "Dometto", the baptistery of Rovigo's Duomo, was demolished. Legend says the hammer stopped before the Madonna painted over the door.
Giovanni Miani, the man from Rovigo who chased the sources of the Nile
A name carved into an African tamarind and a homecoming that took ten years
Born in Rovigo in 1810, Giovanni Miani went further up the Nile towards its sources than anyone before. His remains rest at the Accademia dei Concordi.