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Alatri is a small town, but with a very rich and long history.   It has megalithic walls whose origins are lost in time, an incredible Etruscan necropoli and throughout its existence it has known the Roman domination, the barbaric invasions and, at the time of the Church temporal power, the strugles between the Papacy and […]

Nowadays only two Jewish families still reside in Casale Monferrato. However, this small town in the countryside of the Piedmont region once had a numerous and prosperous Jewish community that had started settling here since 1492. In fact this was the year marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, some of which, for some […]

This city, laying on one side along the Ionian sea and the other side at the bottom of the Etna vulcano, the highest active vulcano in Europe, has, in the midst of its beautifull historic down town area also a “Giudecca” (easy to understand the ethimological origin of this word), as the ghetto areas were […]

The first Jews arrived in Cherasco in July 1547 when two Jews asked and obtained the permission to settle in this little town. Though the Jewish population never really picked up in numbers like in other cities or towns, in 1740 the ghetto was established. Here, due to the small number of Jews, the ghetto […]

Cividale del Friuli is a town located in the north eastern part of Italy, very closed to the border with Slovenia.   In spite of the fact that the Jewish presence in Cividale dates back almost 800 years and, according to some unverifiable sources, even back to the VI century B.C., nowadays there are very […]

The memories of one of the oldest Italian Jewish communities are kept in Ferrara’s medieval quarter. First documented inhabitants date back to the XIII century, but it was only in the XIV and XV centuries that consistent development took place under the guide of the Este family up until 1598, when the Church took hold […]

Florence, the world capital of the Renaissance, has its first record of Jews living within its boundaries dating back to the XII century. The peak of the Jewish presence was obviously reached in the XIV and XV centuries, centuries that saw the blossoming and the height of the Renaissance period, even though the ruling family […]

The first Jewish presence in the city dates back to 1145. However it’s not until the 16th century that the Jewish community will reach it’s peak. In fact, in this century a grand total of 12 synagogues were built.  They were called “scholae”, and they served both as places of worship as well as “schools”, […]

The Jewish Communities of the Marche region, located along the eastern Adriatic coast of Italy, have a very old history, though not many Jewish heritage sites are left today. Our itinerary will take you through a region that was at the centre of the Papacy’s temporal power and of all the struggles, alliances, and their […]

Milan never had a stable Jewish community mostly because for many centuries Jews were banned from the city until about the end of the XVIII century, when the first significative afflux of Jews from other parts of Italy and Europe took place. This continued until today, making Milano the 2nd largest Italian Jewish Community after […]

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