In history a meeting point for the Western and the Eastern World is now well known for its many beautiful sacred buildings as mausoleums, chapels and churches, and most of all known for the marvellous Byzantine mosaics.
If you visit Ravenna look to attend an organ concert (or any other classical concert) in one of the churches as we did in the Basilica of San Vitale. Something you never will forget, especially if you have the luck to hear some Toccata's and Fugues of J.S. Bach (it gave us the creeps)!
(Photo: Interior of Basilica di San Vitale - Mosaic with Justinian)

Other visits we made in Ravenna:

• Basilica di San Appollinare in Classe (6th century, Byzantine mosaics)
• Basilica di San Vitale (paleochristian, 6th century, Byzantine mosaics)
• Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (5th century)
• Orthodox Baptistery (5th century)
• Mausoleum of Theodoric
• Tomb of Dante Alighieri (18th century)
• Basilica di San Appolinare Nuovo (6th century, Aryan church erected by Goths, later reconsecrated as a Catholic church)
• ...and a cool drink on the Piazza del Popolo

Click here to see a lot of Ravenna's famous mosaics. (Images from World History: Late Roman provincial history in Italy mosaics (6 - 7th century).

These days the art of mosaics is still practiced: reproduction of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine mosaics, restoration of ancient and modern mosaics, etc. as you can see at the Mosaic Art Studio.