Dante and Beatrice

The stops

Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.

Map of the 10 stops on Dante and Beatrice

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Stop 1
The City That Sent Him Away
The man who shaped the Italian language was born here and exiled by this same city, and he never came back.
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Stop 2
A birthplace from 1910
Dante's house is a reconstruction from 1910, and that's exactly what makes the story more interesting.
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Stop 3
The neighbours' little church
The parish church of two families who made each other's lives miserable, and of the girl who changed everything.
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Stop 4
The Neighbour Who Was His Enemy
The street of the man who drove him out of the city, and of the family he had married into.
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Stop 5
The stone where he sat
The stone where, as the story goes, he sat watching the construction, and the answer he gave a year later.
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Stop 6
The Laurel Crown That Never Came
He was baptised here, and here he hoped to be crowned as a poet.
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Stop 7
Voting with chestnuts
For two months he helped govern from this tower, and those two months cost him his city.
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Stop 8
The bell and the reader
The bell that set the rhythm of his day, and the city that had his poem read aloud seventy years later.
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Stop 9
The sentence and the face
He was condemned in this building, and centuries later his earliest portrait surfaced here from beneath a coat of whitewash.
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Stop 10
The Empty Grave
Dante's tomb in this church stands empty, and Ravenna has held onto his bones for seven hundred years.
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