Addizione Erculea

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The Addizione Erculea or Erculean Addition is the area of urban expansion created in 1492 by the enlargement of the walled city limits of Ferrara, Italy. It is celebrated as an example of Renaissance urban planning.

The walled medieval city of Ferrara was geographically limited from southward expansion by a branch of the delta of the

Po river. In 1450, the prior Duke, Borso d'Este (1450) had enlarged slightly the city southward with reclaimed land from the river banks.^[1]

However,

Cardo Maximus

) represented by the now Corso Ercole I d'Este parting from the Castello.

The Addizione more than doubled the size of the walled town and included areas for cultivation and private parks (now encompassed by the Cemetery of the Certosa and the Jewish cemetery). Among the buildings erected over the next decades and centuries in this sector were the

Teatini; the church of San Carlo, and the 17th century Teatro Comunale.^[2]

The walls of Ferrara once spanned 13 kilometers, some 9 kilometers still stand, mainly to the north and east of the city. The Porta degli Angeli was an original Northern entrance to the Addizione Erculea.^[3]

References

^ Riqualificazione di un quartiere di Ferrara, first section Analisi storico dell'urbanistica a Ferrara, Thesis by Massimo Baraldi.
^ Ferrara Terra e Acqua, tourism site.
^ Ferrara Terra e Acqua, entry on walls of the city.

[1] Riqualificazione di un quartiere di Ferrara, first section Analisi storico dell'urbanistica a Ferrara, Thesis by Massimo Baraldi.

[2] Ferrara Terra e Acqua, tourism site.

[3] Ferrara Terra e Acqua, entry on walls of the city.

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