Ravenna

This small prayer room shows how a bishop responded to the royal court's faith without openly breaking with it.

This stop shows that a change of creed meant the transfer of an entire quarter, its property, and its people.

Here, for the first time, the route will connect the splendor of imperial mosaics with the struggle for the episcopal seat of Ravenna.

The finale will bring together the visible traces of the church’s alteration and the dispute over whose name it is entitled to bear.

Here, a local legend will collide with evidence that confirms the fire but not the name of the person buried.

Here, the mosaics will be read as a scheme of transition from catechumens to the full community.

The square will shift the conversation from a church dispute to the postwar choice of how to organize the country.

Here the story will reconstruct an event connected with the vanished palace and explain the caution of the modern name.