Some of the most important cultural places of the city are easily accessible thanks to the tourist card myFE (such as the imposing Este Castle, the Palazzo Schifanoia and the Palazzina Marfisa d’Este).
Moreover, the card grants you admission to a long list of museums: the National Art Gallery inside the Palazzo Diamanti, the majestic Archaeological Museum inside Palazzo Costabili (free admission every first Sunday of the month), the Cathedral Museum hosting works of art by Cosmè Tura; the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah and the recent MLB Home Gallery, a contemporary art gallery hosted in the private home of the curator.
Don’t forget the city centre, a monument by itself: over the centuries it maintained almost unconverted its historical features: its imposing façades, the alleys, the churches and the fascinating glimpses immersed in the winter fog turn the city into a melancholic and suggestive artwork.
Further places you should visit are “Al Brindisi”, the world’s oldest inn, mentioned even by Ariosto in his work Lena; the cemetery of the Cherterhouse, the Church Santa Maria in Vado, the ancient Jewish cemetery of Via delle Vigne and any of the many of cinemas or restaurants spread through the city centre, monuments of a century-old tradition and of good food.