The Francesco Baracca Museum was established by the Municipality of Lugo in 1926 and housed until 1990 in a room at the entrance of the Estense Fortress.
It is the museum that recounts the exploits and collects the memorabilia of the main Italian aviation ace and gold medal for military valour in the First World War, during which he is credited with thirty-four air victories.
Visit the museum
An itinerary that will let you discover the oldest origins of the world’s best-known prancing horse. The origins of what is now known as the world’s most influential brand lie in Lugo, the birthplace of Francesco Baracca.
Information
Opening hours:
Winter hours (15 September – 14 May)
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Summer hours (15 May – 14 September)
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Full: € 2.50
Reduced price: € 1.50 (pensioners over 65, military personnel, civil volunteers, affiliated associations and organisations).
Free: Under 20s, university students, teachers accompanying schoolchildren, disabled people and their carers, tour guides, journalists, Lugo schools, visits arranged with the management.
Contact details:
+39 0545.299105
museobaracca@comune.lugo.ra.it
Museum
The centrepiece of the museum is the French-built World War I fighter SPAD VII S 2489, restored in the early 1990s by GAVS Turin. On the left side of the fuselage, Major Baracca’s personal emblem, the ‘prancing horse’, appears. Between 1916 and 1917, the prancing horse became the personal emblem that Francesco Baracca, coming from the cavalry, put on his aircraft to pay homage to his former regiment. In 1923, after winning the ‘Circuito automobilistico del Savio’ in an Alfa Romeo, Enzo Ferrari met Baracca’s parents in Lugo and the Countess begged him to accept her son’s prancing horse as a gift, because it would bring him luck. Ferrari put it on his Alfa Romeo for the first time, in 1932, at the Belgian circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, but it was in 1947 that it officially became the symbol of his new racing team.
In the heart of Motor Valley
The Francesco Baracca Museum is located in Via Francesco Baracca, 65, 48022 Lugo, Ravenna.
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Francesco Baracca Museum guided tour
Established by the Municipality of Lugo in 1926 and located until 1990 in a room at the entrance to the Estense Fortress, the Francesco Baracca Museum recounts the exploits and collects memorabilia of Italy’s leading aviation ace and gold medalist for military valor in World War I.
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