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Faenza
All you need to know about Faenza: the numbers to keep at hand, a few curiosities and what there is to see and do.
58,710inhabitants
44metres above sea level
215.8km² of land
48018postcode
Useful numbers in Faenza
Save them on your phone before you leave: tap a number to call.
Emergencies
One number for every emergency: police, fire brigade and ambulance. Free, works with no credit, and they also answer in English.
The old numbers 113 (police), 115 (fire brigade) and 118 (ambulance) still work: they all reach the same 112 centre.
Out-of-hours doctor
For minor health problems when GPs are closed: at night, at weekends and on public holidays. Run by AUSL Romagna.
Health and emergencies in Faenza
Emergency room, CAU, out-of-hours doctor, doctor for tourists, Red Cross: what to do if you fall ill, explained for visitors from abroad.
Emergency room
- Ospedale degli Infermiin town · Viale Stradone 9
- Ospedale Morgagni-Pierantoni14 km as the crow flies · Forlì · Via Carlo Forlanini 34
Town hall of Faenza
0546 691111 Switchboard
Piazza Del Popolo, 31
Mayor: Massimo Isola
Postcode and dialling code
Postcode 48018
Dialling code 0546
From a foreign mobile: +39 and then the whole number, 0 included.
Post offices 7
- Poste ItalianeVia Naviglio 16
- Poste ItalianeVia Bernardo Azzurrini 6/1
- Poste ItalianeVia Giuseppe Garibaldi 3
- FaenzaVia Forlivese 3
- Poste ItalianeVia Mengolina 17
- Poste ItalianeVia Silvio Corbari 58
and 1 more
- RedaVia Vincenzo Caroli 27
Police stations 6
- Carabinieri - Comando Stazione Carabinieri Faenza Borgo UrbeccoCarabinieri · Via Forlivese 27
- Carabinieri Comando FaenzaCarabinieri · Via Giuliano da Maiano 43
- CarabinieriVoltone della Molinella 1d
- Local policeVia Baliatico 3
- Financial policeVia Antonio Laghi 76
- Railway policePiazza Cesare Battisti 6
Pharmacies 18
The pharmacies open at night and on holidays are listed on the door of every pharmacy.
- Farmacia Comunale 3Via Forlivese 20
- Farmacia Dottor PiazzaVia Case Nuove 54
- Farmacia Comunale 2Viale Guglielmo Marconi 32/a
- Farmacia del DuomoPiazza della Libertà 8a
- Farmacia MarzariCorso Giuseppe Mazzini 2
- Parafarmacia Salute e NaturaCorso Giacomo Matteotti 79
and 12 more
- Farmacia OspedaleVia San Giuliano 5
- Caddy'sVia Benigno Zaccagnini 50
- Veterinaria FaentinaVia Leonardo da Vinci 8
- Farmacia delle CeramicheVia Ravegnana 75a
- Farmacia TorricelliCorso Giuseppe Garibaldi 44b
- Parafarmacia Sant'AnnaVia Forlivese 5
- Farmacia Comunale 1Via Antonio Laghi 69/4
- Farmacia Del LevanteVia Fornarina 12
- Parafarmacia ConadVia della Costituzione 28
- Felia FarmacieCorso Domenico Baccarini 2
- Farmacia SansoniPiazza del Popolo 8
- Farmacia Le CicogneVia Galileo Galilei 4/12
Vets 5
For a pet that falls ill on holiday. Call before you go.
Faenza in numbers
Official open data: the source is under every number.
58,710inhabitantsISTAT
215.8km² of landWikidata
272people per km²our calculation
44metres above sea levelWikidata
41,612cars owned by residentsACI, 2025
709cars per 1,000 peopleACI, 2025
7,723motorbikesACI, 2025
57,886vehicles in all, lorries includedACI, 2025
736named streets and squaresOpenStreetMap
48.5km of cycle lanesOpenStreetMap
22places to stayOpenStreetMap
160places to eat and drinkOpenStreetMap
27petrol stationsOpenStreetMap
10EV charging pointsOpenStreetMap
38playgroundsOpenStreetMap
26schoolsOpenStreetMap
65churches and places of worshipOpenStreetMap
The locals are called faentini in Italian.
Twinned with: Rijeka, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Jingdezhen, Timișoara, Talavera de la Reina, Bergerac, Gmunden, Toki, Marousi.
Born in Faenza
- Laura PausiniItalian singer · 1974
- Pietro NenniItalian politician (1891–1980) · 1891
What to see and do in Faenza
First our own hand-written cards, then what OpenStreetMap knows on top.
Monuments and places 15
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International Museum of Ceramics
Faenza · Art and monumentsPhoto: MIC Faenza Stefania Mazzotti, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfredo OrianiArtwork
- Antonio ZannoniMemorial
- Locomotiva FS 851.105Attraction
- Monumento a Evangelista TorricelliMonument
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- Monumento ai Caduti dell'ariaMemorial
- Monumento al Generale PasiArtwork
- Monumento alla liberazione di Castel BologneseMemorial
- Monumento alla ResistenzaMemorial
- Monumento a Riccardo GattiMemorial
- Porta delle ChiaviCity gate
- Resti della Rocca di FaenzaRuins
- Silvio CorbariMemorial
- Tempietto della MemoriaMemorial
- tomba romanaArchaeological site
Museums and exhibitions 21
The whole listMIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Faenza
One of the largest ceramics museums in the world: from Faenza's Renaissance maiolica to the ancient ceramics of other continents, up to works by Picasso, Chagall and Matisse and the winners of the International Competition. In 2011 UNESCO recognised it as an expression of a culture of peace.
On now: Nordic Table Design. Una silenziosa rivoluzione femminile (1900-1970)
Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza
Faenza · via Santa Maria dell'Angelo 9
The municipal picture gallery, one of the oldest in Italy: painting and sculpture from the 14th to the 20th century, with the works of the masters of Faenza and Romagna.
Museo Carlo Zauli
Faenza
In the workshop of the ceramic sculptor Carlo Zauli, in the centre of Faenza: his works, the studio left as it was and a programme of residencies, exhibitions and talks on contemporary art.
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali Domenico Malmerendi
Faenza · via Medaglie d'Oro 51
The zoological collections of the surveyor Domenico Malmerendi and the collections of fossils, minerals and insects of Romagna, with special attention to schools.
Palazzo Milzetti, Museo nazionale dell'età neoclassica in Romagna
Faenza · via Tonducci 15
A noble residence that has stayed as it was in the early 19th century, with rooms decorated by Felice Giani and his collaborators: the finest neoclassical interior in Romagna. A state museum, free on the first Sunday of the month.
Museo del Risorgimento e dell'Età contemporanea
Faenza · corso Garibaldi 2, Palazzo Laderchi
In the neoclassical Palazzo Laderchi: documents and memorabilia of the people of Faenza in the Risorgimento and the wars of the 20th century.
Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra
Faenza · Palazzo Vescovile, piazza XI Febbraio 10
In the bishop's palace, next to the cathedral: paintings, sculptures, silverware and vestments from the churches of the diocese of Faenza and Modigliana.
Casa Museo Raffaele Bendandi
Faenza · via Manara 17
The house and laboratory of the self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, the man who wanted to predict earthquakes: his hand-built seismographs, still working, and the planetarium painted on the cellar vault. Open a few days a month.
Museo Guerrino Tramonti
Faenza · via Fratelli Rosselli 8
The foundation and museum devoted to Guerrino Tramonti, a 20th-century painter and ceramist from Faenza: ceramics, paintings and drawings in his house and studio.
Museo Goffredo Gaeta
Faenza
In an old industrial building, the art workshop of the ceramist Goffredo Gaeta: you visit the workshop where work still goes on and the pieces the artist kept for himself.
Museo della Bottega Gatti
Faenza
In the historic rooms of the workshop founded in 1928, more than two hundred rare ceramics from the bottega, from the years of Futurism to the collaborations with contemporary artists.
Nordic Table Design. Una silenziosa rivoluzione femminile (1900-1970)
20 June 2026 - 10 January 2027
Faenza · MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Seventy years of Nordic tableware design seen through the women who designed it: more than two hundred objects from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, with a section on the Nordic pieces awarded in Faenza between 1964 and 1974.
- Cristina D'AlbertoArt gallery · Via Mura Gioco del Pallone 8a
- Der Kunst Garten - Il Giardino dell'ArteArt gallery · Via Modigliana 16
- Esposizione archeologica di Palazzo MazzolaniMuseum · Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 93
- Galleria Comunale d'ArteArt gallery · Voltone della Molinella 6
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- MabilabArt gallery · Via Micheline 4
- Museo civico di Scienze Naturali MalmerendiMuseum
- Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in FaenzaMuseum · Viale Alfredo Baccarini 19
- Museo Settore TerritorioMuseum · Via Scipione Zanelli 4
- Officina MatteucciArt gallery · Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 62
Castles and fortresses 2
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Photo: Marco Campanacci, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsTorre di Oriolo
Faenza
A fifteenth-century hexagonal tower, built for the Manfredi among the vineyards of the Faenza hills. A local association opens it at weekends in the warm season, with evenings, exhibitions and the wines of the area.
- Castello di GranaroloCastle
Churches 56
- Cattedrale di San Pietro ApostoloPlace of worship
- Chiesa dei Santi Ippolito e LorenzoPlace of worship
- Chiesa della Beata Vergine del ParadisoPlace of worship
- Chiesa della CommendaPlace of worship
- Chiesa della Santissima TrinitàPlace of worship
- Chiesa del Santissimo CrocifissoPlace of worship
- Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore in AlberetoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San BarnabaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San BartolomeoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo in CasalePlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Biagio in CosinaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San DomenicoPlace of worship
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- Chiesa di San Filippo NeriPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San FrancescoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Decollato delle CellePlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Pieve CesatoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Giovanni EvangelistaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San GiovanninoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Girolamo all'OsservanzaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Giuseppe ArtigianoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Lorenzo in SaldinoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San MamantePlace of worship
- Chiesa di San MarcoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Martino in FormellinoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Martino in RedaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Pier LagunaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Pietro in Vinculis di FossoloPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San Procolo alla Pieve PontePlace of worship
- Chiesa di San RoccoPlace of worship · Piazza San Rocco 3
- Chiesa di San SavinoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San SigismondoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di San SilvestroPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'AgostinoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'Andrea in PanigalePlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'AntoninoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'AntonioPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'Apollinare in Castel RanieroPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Sant'Apollinare in OrioloPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa CaterinaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa LuciaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa MargheritaPlace of worship · Via Tommaso Minardi 2
- Chiesa di Santa Margherita in RivaltaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Margherita in RoncoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria ad NivesPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta in MarzenoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria degli AngeliPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario in ErranoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in BasiagoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in MerlaschioPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in MezzenoPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in PradaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santa Maria MaddalenaPlace of worship
- Chiesa di Santo StefanoPlace of worship
- Pieve di Santo Stefano in CorletoPlace of worship
- Santi Giovanni Battista e Andrea in PergolaPlace of worship
- Santuario della Beata Vergine della FognanaPlace of worship
Theatres, cinemas and libraries 35
- Archivio capitolare - BibliotecaLibrary · Piazza Undici Febbraio 3
- Arena BorghesiCinema · Viale Stradone
- Arena Cinema EuropaCinema
- Biblioteca-Fototeca della Pinacoteca comunaleLibrary · Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 93
- Biblioteca BCC Citta' e CulturaLibrary · Piazza della Libertà 7
- Biblioteca cardinale Gaetano CicognaniLibrary · Viale Stradone 25
- Biblioteca comunale Manfrediana - Sede di GranaroloLibrary · Via Risorgimento 10
- Biblioteca comunale Manfrediana - Sede di RedaLibrary · Via Reda 315
- Biblioteca dei CappucciniLibrary · Via Canal Grande 57
- Biblioteca del Centro di Documentazione Don Tonino BelloLibrary · Via Laderchi 3
- Biblioteca del Centro Sociale Palazzo LaderchiLibrary · Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 2
- Biblioteca del Centro studi storici del Partito Repubblicano Italiano - Sezione A. CenniLibrary · Via Micheline 29
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- Biblioteca del Convento di San DomenicoLibrary · Piazza San Domenico 4
- Biblioteca dell'Osservatorio geo-fisico comunale Raffaele BendandiLibrary · Via Baldassarre Manara 17
- Biblioteca della Casa Editrice FaenzaLibrary · Via De Crescenzi 44
- Biblioteca della Scuola Comunale di Musica Giuseppe SartiLibrary · Via Santa Maria dell'Angelo 23
- Biblioteca della Società di mutuo soccorso I fioriLibrary
- Biblioteca del Liceo ginnasio statale L. TorricelliLibrary
- Biblioteca del museo civico di scienze naturali di FaenzaLibrary · Via Medaglie d'Oro 51
- Biblioteca del Museo internazionale delle ceramicheLibrary · Viale Alfredo Baccarini 19
- Biblioteca di Design "Bruno Munari" dell'ISIA di FaenzaLibrary · Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 93
- Biblioteca ISSMCLibrary
- Biblioteca ManfredianaLibrary · Via Manfredi 14
- Biblioteca Manfrediana per RagazziLibrary · Via Manfredi 18
- Biblioteca popolare Carlo ZucchiniLibrary · Via Giulio Castellani 25
- Biblioteca Tecnico-scientifica dell'Azienda USL di RavennaLibrary · Viale Stradone 9
- Biblioteca TorricellianaLibrary · Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 2
- Centro di documentazione Ambientale del World Wildlife Found - WWFLibrary · Via Laderchi 3
- CinedreamCinema · Via Granarolo 55
- Cinema EuropaCinema · Via Sant'Antonino 4
- Cinema ItaliaCinema
- Sala Fellini FaenzaTheatre · Piazza Santa Maria Foris Portam 2
- SartiCinema
- Teatri Comunale Angelo MasiniTheatre
- Teatro dei Filodrammatici "Luigi Antonio Mazzoni"Theatre · Viale Stradone 7
Parks and gardens 50
- Cortile Palazzo EsposizioniGarden
- Giardino Ara CrucisPark
- Giardino Botanico Paolo LiveraniGarden
- Giardino Centro MarconiPark
- Giardino delle GraziePark
- Giardino di Piazza GianiPark
- Giardino Francesco SerantiniPark
- Giardino LamaPark
- Giardino le MaiolichePark
- Giardino Martiri di FelisioPark
- Giardino Parco San GiorgioPark
- Giardino PlacciPark
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- Giardino SalveminiPark
- Giardino via FornarinaPark
- Giardino Vittorio RagazziniPark
- Largo dei BersaglieriPark
- Largo Talavera de la ReinaPark
- Parco Antonio PianiPark
- Parco Antonio PianiPark
- Parco AzzurroPark
- Parco Baden-PowellPark
- Parco BezziPark
- Parco Caduti di SupergaPark
- Parco Carlo Cesare VespignaniPark
- Parco della Croce RossaPark
- Parco della Magione Giuliano BettoliPark
- Parco della RoccaPark
- Parco della Torre di OrioloPark
- Parco delle Ginestre "Romagna Mia"Park
- Parco delle RimembranzePark
- Parco delle RimembranzePark
- Parco E. ZucchiniPark
- Parco Ermanno ColaPark
- Parco GattiPark
- Parco Giuseppe Armando DejanaPark
- Parco Giuseppe BertoniPark
- Parco il Sentiero delle GinestrePark
- Parco Melvin JonesPark
- Parco MitaPark
- Parco Pietro FerucciPark
- Parco Roberto BucciPark
- Parco San FrancescoPark
- Parco Scalo MerciPark
- Parco TassinariPark
- Parco Tonito EmilianiPark
- Parco Valtiero BertozziPark
- Parco VerdePark
- Piazza Dante AlighieriPark
- Piazzale Giuseppe SercognaniPark
- Punta degli Orti - Parco Veniero LombardiPark
Theme parks and fun 1
The whole listClubs and dance halls 2
The whole listTour guides 4
The whole list- Pro Loco FaenzaEach season the Pro Loco of Faenza publishes a calendar of visits led by licensed tour guides: the old town, private palaces, churches and routes in the surroundings.
- OrienteOccidenteAn association founded in 2002 by a group of Ravenna guides: the mosaics and monuments of the city, with itineraries in Ferrara, the Po Delta and Bologna too.
- Cooperativa Il PapaveroA cooperative of licensed tour guides and tour leaders, working for over twenty years in Ravenna and the main places nearby.
- Ravenna Friendly GuidesA group of independent Ravenna guides with a focus on accessible and inclusive tourism: visits designed for people with disabilities too.
Bookshops 1
The whole listTourist offices 1
- IAT Pro LocoTourist information office · Voltone della Molinella 2
Luggage storage 1
The whole listStay and eat in Faenza
The full lists, with the website and the map of every place.
Upcoming events in Faenza
20 Jun 2026 - 10 Jan 2027
Nordic Table Design. A Silent Female Revolution (1900-1970)
MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, viale Baccarini 19, Faenza
Getting to Faenza
A driver meets you on arrival and takes you to your hotel, the fair or the concert. Fixed price, book online.
Other towns in the area
- Alfonsine
- Bagnacavallo
- Bagnara di Romagna
- Brisighella
- Casola Valsenio
- Castel Bolognese
- Cervia
- Conselice
- Cotignola
- Fusignano
- Lugo
- Massa Lombarda
- Ravenna
- Riolo Terme
- Russi
- Sant'Agata sul Santerno
- Solarolo
Sources: population ISTAT; phone, address and mayor from the Italian public administration index; vehicles ACI; businesses ISTAT; saints, twin towns and people Wikidata; places and services OpenStreetMap. Found a mistake? The right number is always the one on the official site. Lists from OpenStreetMap, read on 3 October 2026.