Tomba di Dante and Circuito Dante
Exiled from his native Florence, the author of The Divine Comedy died here in 1321, and Dante's tomb and bones (which over the centuries were secretly stashed in various spots nearby) lies in a small neoclassical building by the church of St. Francis. Nearby a Dante Circuit consists of the immersive, multimedia Museo Dante and more meditative Casa Dante with Dantean artifacts from the Biblioteca Classense and the Uffizi. The Florentines have long been trying to reclaim their famous son, but the Ravennans argue that since Florence did not welcome Dante in life, it does not deserve him in death. Perhaps as penance, every September the Florentine government sends olive oil that's used to fuel the light hanging in the chapel's center.
