Ferrara - Centre of Power and the Muses, Italy (115/418)

Ferrari, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Piero della Francesca, Jacopo Bellini and Mantegna decorated the palaces of the House of Este. The humanist concept of the ideal city came to life here in the quarters built after 1492 by Biagio Rossetti according to the new principles of perspective. The completion of this project marked the birth of modern town planning and its subsequent development.