Enhancement of cultural heritage is based on preservation of historical memory and identity of a territory. In this perspective, historical artistic assets are resources that must be protected preserving their conservation and encouraging understanding and enjoyment by the community. Not only visiting museums, as well can buy faithful reproductions of the artifacts present within them

The formelle dei Mesi, now kept in the Museo della Cattedrale di Ferrara, decorated the Porta dei Pellegrini, or Porta dei Mesi, once located on the southern side of the Cathedral, at one of the main access of the city. Sculpted in the first decades of the thirteenth century by the mysterious Maestro dei Mesi, an anonymous artist among the greatest sculptors of the XIII century, they represent the months of the year identified through characteristic agricultural activity of the period. With his intense naturalism and great technical ability, the Maestro dei Mesi gives us a very realistic view of the life of time

The eight formelle survived have inclined support surfaces and the base floor has a curved pattern, this supports the thesis of their original location in the intrados of the arch in bottom of the protiro portal, structured on two levels and surmounted by another arch covered with sloped roof. The door was closed in 1717 and the subsequent demolition in 1736 has bring about the loss of some formelle and the uncertainty about their disposition