Modena celebrates All Saints' weekend: events for tourists and residents.

On the weekend of All Saints' Day, from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November, exhibitions, monuments and museums are open to the people of Modena and tourists who will be able to visit the Unesco site with Piazza Grande, the Ghirlandina and the historic rooms of the Palazzo Comunale, the Cathedral Museums, the Civic Museum with the installation “Il filo d'amore e di sangue”, the Terramara which extends the autumn season until the end of the month. Also open are the Galleria Estense and the Fmav exhibitions, the Nuovo Diurno in Piazza Mazzini and the Albinelli market. All information can be found on the visitmodena tourist promotion portal (www.visitmodena.it) through which it is also possible to book.

In the UNESCO site of Piazza Grande you can go up the Tower from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November with continuous opening hours from 9.30 to 18.30. There is a fee for admission (the ticket costs 3 euros) and reservations are required through the website visitmodena.it. The historic rooms of the Town Hall are also open for the long weekend: Friday 1st and Sunday 3rd November with guided tours and entrances at 15.15pm; 16pm; 16.45pm; 17.30pm, with mandatory reservation (entrance 2 euros).

Sunday 3 November, at 18pm, guided tour themed dedicated to the paintings of Adeodato Malatesta, portraitist of the Modenese bourgeoisie and aristocracy of the nineteenth century, exhibited in the wedding hall (reservations on the visitmodena website). On Saturday 2 November the Palace is accessible with an independent visit with free admission at 13; 13.30; 14; 14.30.

During the three days of the long weekend you can participate on guided tours (by reservation) at the municipal vinegar factory at 10.30, 11.30, 15.30, 16.30.

The Cathedral of Modena it's always open but Tourist visits are permitted only outside of liturgical celebrations: Friday and Sunday from 13.30pm to 16.30pm; Saturday from 10.30am to 12pm and from 12.30pm to 17pm. The Cathedral Museums can be visited on Friday 1 November from 10 am to 14 pm; Saturday 2, from 10 am to 14 pm and from 15 pm to 18 pm; Sunday 3 November from 10 am to 14 pm and from 15 pm to 19 pm.

It is also open all weekend the New Daylight in Piazza Mazzini, with continuous hours from 9.30 to 19, with free admission. On All Saints' Day, Friday 1 November, the Albinelli Market is also open, from 8 to 15, which also opens regularly on Saturday 2 November, from 7 to 19, while it remains closed on Sunday.

The Civic Museum, on the third floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, is open all weekend from 10 to 19, with free admission. It will also be possible to visit, for the last three days, the installation “The Thread of Love and Blood. A Tale of Life and Death in Mutina”, an immersive journey that addresses the theme of the relationship between soul and body and between death and life starting from the discovery, in the necropolis that flanked the Via Emilia to the east of the city, of a burial containing two cinerary urns belonging to a little girl who died between the ages of 4 and 6 and to a young woman.

At Palazzo dei Musei you can also visit Avia Pervia, the immersive room that tells the origins and history of the Museum and the city, and the Galleria Estense open Friday 1 from 10 to 18; Saturday 2 from 8.30 to 19.30; Sunday 3 November from 10 to 18 with free admission.

On the ground floor of the Palace, the Giuseppe Graziosi Plaster Cast Gallery and the adjacent Roman Lapidary will also be accessible free of charge.

There are two events scheduled for the weekend at the Terramara Archaeological Park in Montale: Friday 1st with the archaeological micro-excavation “Stories of skeletons and ashes” and Sunday 3rd November, with free admission, like every first Sunday of the month, with guided tours of the archaeological area and the reconstructed village (information and reservations: www.parcomontale.it).

Throughout the holiday weekend you can also visit the exhibitions of the Fondazione Modena Arti Visive starting with “Naturale Innaturale. Dinosauri e altre creatura”, at the Palazzina dei Giardini: dialogue between art and science from the evolution of the scientific representation of dinosaurs to the works of Dario Ghibaudo. At Palazzo Santa Margherita you can visit, instead, “Umwelt”, an exhibition on art, technoscience, non-human expressions of intelligence and natural and artificial collective environments (information: fmav.org).

The Enzo Ferrari Museum is also open (Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 to 18; Monday 1 April every day, from 9.30 to 19, entrance fee; https://www.ferrari.com/it-IT/museums/enzo-ferrari-modena) and the Luciano Pavarotti House Museum in Stradiello Nava (every day from 10am to 18pm; last admission at 17.15pm; www.casamuseolucianopavarotti.it).