The Basilica of Saint Anthony, known as "The Saint", is the most important religious center of the city and attracts thousands of pilgrims every year especially on 13th June, the feast of the Saint.
The Basilica was built in 1232 to guard the...
The Scrovegni Chapel enshrines one of the most precious masterpieces of fourteenth-century Italian and European painting, and it is considered the most complete cycle of frescoes made by the great Tuscan master, Giotto, in his maturity. With this...
The University of Padua gained increasing fame during the Carraresi era, thanks in part to the generous support of the signori. The Carraresi maintained a dose rapport with the professors of the Studium. Notable teachers were often called on to...
Prato della Valle (Prà deła Vałe in Venetian) is a 90,000 square meter elliptical square in Padova. It is the largest square in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe. Today, the square is a large space with a green island at the center, l'Isola...
The collections of the Civic Museum document the Carraresi period and include important objects that evoke memories of the family itself. The Church of St. Augustine was dear to leaders of the Carraresi, and they chose it for the family...
The Anatomical Theatre of Padua is the oldest permanent anatomical theatre in the world, commissioned by Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente in 1594 and still perfectly preserved. It can be visited at the Palazzo del Bo of the University of...
Piazza delle Erbe was once called Piazza del Vin (Wine Piazza) because it was the scene for the wholesale market of wine arriving from the countryside. The area was well-populated with taverns, inns and 'caneve' - these latter could simply sell...
This masonry church, dedicated to saints Philip and James dates to 1276, was built by the Augustinian Eremites in 1276, replacing a wood-roofed structure dedicated to the same saints, noted here as early as 1218. As approved by the papal bull of...
The 'Salone' (Hall), 82 metres long and 27 metres wide, rises on a 14th-century loggia. It is the old see of the town tribunals of Padua, and it once was the largest suspended hall in the world.
The Palazzo della Ragione was the heart of city...
By walking along via Donatello, we get to the entrance of the Botanical Garden. Founded in 1545 upon request of the medicine school of the University of Padua, it is the oldest university botanical garden in the world to have kept its original...
During the Carraresi period the Piazza Dei Signori was bounded on the west by the Royal Palace wall, which extended from Piazza del Duomo along Via Dante up to the Church of San Nicolo. The main entrance to the piazza was to the south, beside the...
The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is a sculpture by Italian early Renaissance artist Donatello, dating from 1453, located in the Piazza del Santo. It portrays the Renaissance condottiero Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served...
The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary of Padua (Italian: Basilica Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta, also known as Duomo di Padova) is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Padua, northern Italy. The cathedral is the see of the Diocese of...
The Baptistery was first erected in the 11th century, and altered in 1260 with the addition of the small lateral apse. In 1376, Fina Buzzaccarini, wife of Francesco the Elder, chose it to host the family tomb. Giusto de' Menabuoi was called for...
Adjacent to the Oratory of San Giorgio stands the Scoletta del Santo, a building that echoes the simple brick construction style characteristic of Antonian churches.
The facade was modified in 1930 with the addition of a half-height...
MUSEO BOTTACIN - The museum holds the entire typology of coins used in the Carraresi period, beginning with the small denaro with star, used in daily commerce from the midd1122s up to the period of acopo I. The first true Carraresi coinage is...
Another masterpiece in Padua by Jappelli. The Verdi Theatre, the main theatre in Padua, was inaugurated on June 11th, 1751 with the name of Teatro Nuovo and it was commissioned by some noblemen from Padua, who entrusted its project to Antonio...
Tradition recounts that a first church dedicated to St. Sophia was erected during the era of Charlemagne and the Lombards, on the site of a previous pagan temple. The surrounding borgo also took the name Santa Sofia. The current church was built...
Palazzo Angeli, between Prato della Valle and via Umberto I, hosts a unique museum in Italy and the world.
It is a collection of images and devices for viewing or projecting them; these devices became extremely popular starting from the 18th...
A remarkable instance of architecture between the 15th and the 16th century and see of the Council.
At the corner of the street leading from piazza dei Signori to the Cathedral, in the past the most important convergence of the road system,...
The institution of the Monte di Pieta (Mount of Piety) was established at Padua by Bishop Pietro Barozzi in 1491. The concept of the institution had originally been encouraged by Beato Bernardino da Feltre: the purpose was to lend money in...
On Piazzetta S. Nicolò, one of the most evocative places of medieval Padua, enshrined between the Meschini Palaces and the 17th-century Palace Brunelli-Bonetti, there is the Romanesque Church of Saint Nicolò.
Once connected to the complex of...
Opened on the occasion of the Jubilee of 2000, the Diocesan Museum covers almost 2,000 square meters in the Halls of the Bishop Palace. It collects precious works of painting, sculpture and goldsmithry, codes and incunaboli (books lacking front...
During the medieval period a number of religious orders and generous private citizens had been responsible for the establishment of the xenodochi (hostels for pilgrims and travellerss). However there was a lack of a true hospital, particularly...
Various documents dated from 1062 to 1102 give the first indications of a tower situated at the dividing point of the waters that flow around the city. It was called the Turlonga (Long Tower), and was almost certainly built between the 9th and...
The Amulea Loggia is a neo-Gothic style palace located in Prato della Valle. The building served as the headquarters of the Padua fire department from 1906 to 1989; currently, it houses some municipal offices. The front of the building is...
When they arrived in Padua, several years prior to 1290, the Carmelite brothers established their seat to the north of the city, outside Molino Gate. This area was occupied by a mixed and lively borgo called 'Coa Longa' (long hollow): a long and...
The Abbey of Santa Giustina is a Benedictine abbey in the center of the City of Padua, facing the Prato della Valle, which dates from the 10th century. The abbey is attached to the Basilica of Santa Giustina, which was built in the 6th century....
Occupying a privileged space in front of the Church of San Clemente is the Palazzo del Capitanio, so called because it was the seat of one of the two Venetian captains of the city. It stands on the site of the former Reggia dei Carraresi and is...
The venue of the Town Hall of Padua. Right in front of the university in the Bo Palace, we find the Palace of the Town Hall of Padua, formed by the unification, in different epochs, of different palaces: the 16th-century Moroni Palace (which...
A place for gathering the historical memory of the Great War. The museum, established in 1956, provides rich photographic documentation, objects and findings of World War I, with special reference to the Third Army which operated between Carso...
Artefacts excavated at the amphitheatre include material that dates to the 7th century AD, suggesting that the area was the site of a paleo-Venetian settlement, which would be related to the necropolis at the location of
present-day Via...
In 1369, Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), elderly and ill, finally decided to end his voyaging by settling at Arqua, where Francesco the Elder had probably given him a house. He renovated it to his needs, joining two separate structures, adapting...