Corso Ercole I d'Este is an important Renaissance urban work commissioned by the Duke of Ferrara Ercole I d'Este and commissioned to the court architect Biagio Rossetti. The works began in 1492 and ended around 1510. The course from the Estense Castle reaches the Porta degli Angeli on the walls. The fundamental junction of the addition was and is the Quadrivio degli Angeli, which at its corners presents Palazzo dei Diamanti, Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati and Palazzo Turchi di Bagno.

The Massari park is the largest and best-known public park in Ferrara within the city walls, and was the garden of the adjacent sixteenth-century Massari palace.

The monumental cemetery of the Certosa di Ferrara is the main burial place of the city, located within the walls of Ferrara, included in the area of the Addizione Erculea.

The Porta degli Angeli is a lookout tower which later also served as the gate of Ferrara along the northern city walls. The tower was built towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. Its name derives from the ancient fifteenth-century toponym of Corso Ercole I d'Este, once called Via degli Angeli. The construction of the gate is part of the urban plan of the Herculean Addition, commissioned by Ercole I d'Este in 1492 and completed by the architect Biagio Rossetti.

The Giorgio Bassani urban park is a large area between the walls of Ferrara and the Po river. The area in which this green expanse is located north of the walls of Ferrara has been preserved over time by the urbanisation that has affected all the other suburban areas of the city and, since 2003, has been dedicated to the memory of Giorgio Bassani.

Piazza Ariostea, formerly Piazza Nuova and for a short period also Piazza Napoleone, is an important square in Ferrara commissioned by Ercole I d'Este and built with the urban project of the court architect Biagio Rossetti. It has a rectangular shape with a lowered central ring made in 1933 for the Palio races. At the centre of the square stands the sixteenth-century column designed by Ercole Grandi from Ferrara on which, since 1833, the statue of Ludovico Ariosto, the poet from whom the square takes its name, has been placed. Among the buildings that overlook it, we should mention Palazzo Rondinelli and Palazzo Strozzi Bevilacqua, the latter with the artistic marble balcony in the corner.

Porta Paola, in the past also Porta San Paolo, Porta Paula and Porta Reno, is a monumental building located at the southern entrance to Ferrara placed on the city walls in the seventeenth century. The recent construction of the gate dates back to 1612 and its design was entrusted by the cardinal legate Orazio Spinola to the architect Giovan Battista Aleotti, who was very active in Ferrara at that time, even after the devolution of Ferrara. During the following century, with the changed political situation, it lost its military function and became one of the most important duty collection points in the city, with numerous employees.

The Paolo Mazza stadium (initially known as the Littorio stadium then as the Municipal stadium) is the main football sports facility in Ferrara and its province. Located in the Rione Giardino, west of Ferrara within the city walls, it was built in the immediate vicinity of the place where the Piazza d'Armi field stood, an old playground dating back to 1919.

The Cathedral of San Giorgio Martire is the main place of Catholic worship in Ferrara, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio. It rises in the centre of the city, in front of the Town Hall, next to the ancient Piazza delle Erbe and is connected to the Archbishop's palace through a covered vault on via Guglielmo degli Adelardi. Pope Urban III is buried in the cathedral.

Via delle Volte is located in the medieval centre of Ferrara. The arches that characterise it date back above all to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries but its almost rectilinear layout dates back to the oldest urban development that ran along the ancient course of the Po before it deviated in 1152.

Its historical route starts from the piazza del Travaglio (piazza di Porta Reno) and, after passing via Carlo Mayr (once via di Ripagrande), arrives at piazza Trento e Trieste (formerly piazza del Mercato). Close to piazza del Travaglio, until 1608, two doors opened (one of these was Porta San Romano) which were then closed with the opening of the new Porta Paula.

In the historic centre, Piazza Trento e Trieste, the ancient Piazza delle Erbe (for the market that was held there), is the main square of Ferrara. The medieval square was built together with the cathedral and since then has assumed the value of the city centre, around which the main seats of political, economic and religious power overlooked.

Via Guglielmo degli Adelardi, or also Via degli Adelardi (formerly Via Gorgadello), is located in the historic centre of Ferrara next to the Cathedral of San Giorgio.

The oldest wine shop in the world is in Ferrara. A place in the Guinness Book of Records declared a Historical Place of Italy. The "al Brindisi" wine shop in Ferrara, originally "Hostaria del Chiuchiolino" is the oldest wine shop in the world. The first written documentation dates back to 1435, the year in which the tavern was already famous. Among the famous people who frequented it there are: Benvenuto Cellini, Tiziano Vecellio, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso. In the fifteenth century, the place was reached by boat from the current via degli Adelardi, at the time via del Gorgadello and close to a small inlet that favoured its landing, ... a small inlet or "whirlpool" created by a drain of the rainwater: hence the ancient name of "via Gorgadello". On the ground floor of the building, above the current wine cellar, raised by the urban architect Biagio Rossetti, Niccolò Copernico, graduated in Ferrara in 1503, completed his studies. In 1973 it was visited by the unforgettable pope Karol Wojtyla.

The Estense Castle, also called Castello di San Michele, is the most representative monument of the city of Ferrara. It is located in the centre of the Renaissance city and with its four towers it allows a panoramic view of the entire territory. The fortress, which is a cultural asset, has over time become the seat of government and administration. Since the twentieth century it has also become a temporary and permanent museum.