Modena entdecken

The Torre della Ghirlandina is the 86-metre bell tower of Modena Cathedral, raised from the 12th century and finished in 1319 with an octagonal Gothic spire by Arrigo da Campione. The city kept records and trophies inside, including a copy of the Secchia rapita, a wooden bucket seized from Bologna in 1325. Visitors climb about 200 steps to the Sala dei Torresani.

The Galleria Estense is the art collection of the Este dukes, shown on the top floor of the Palazzo dei Musei in Modena. Opened to the public in 1854 by Duke Francis V and moved here in 1894, it holds Italian paintings and sculpture, Bernini's bust of Francesco I d'Este, Velázquez's portrait of the same duke and the Estense harp.

Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti is the house the tenor had built in the countryside south of Modena, where he lived his last years and died in 2007. Opened to the public in 2015, its twelve rooms on four floors are kept as he left them, with stage costumes, photographs, letters, awards and his own paintings; an audio guide leads through the house.