Valaresso Arch
The Arco Valaresso is a small triumphal arch on the north side of Piazza del Duomo in Padua: a thank-you in stone to the Venetian captain who led the city out of the plague of 1631-1632.
Built in 1632 to a design attributed to Giovan...
Carrarese Castle
The Castello Carrarese, or Castelvecchio, is Padua's medieval fortress overlooking Piazza Castello, where the Bacchiglione splits into two branches: towers and walls that tell eight centuries of history, from the lord Ezzelino III da Romano to...
Church of San Canziano
The Church of San Canziano faces Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of Padua: behind an early 17th-century facade it hides a church first recorded in 1034 and some fine Renaissance terracottas.
Its treasure is the Dead Christ in painted...
Church of San Gaetano
The Church of San Gaetano, officially dedicated to Saints Simon and Jude, is the church Vincenzo Scamozzi designed on Via Altinate in Padua: outside, a facade as solemn as a triumphal arch; inside, an octagonal hall under a painted...
Church of Sant'Andrea
The Church of Sant'Andrea is a parish church in central Padua, recorded since the 12th century, on Via Sant'Andrea. On its small churchyard stands its best-loved curiosity: the "gatta" (the cat), which is actually a stone lion.
Inside,...
Church of St. Catherine
The Church of Santa Caterina is a small Baroque church on Via Cesare Battisti in Padua, tied to two famous names: the composer Giuseppe Tartini is buried here, and Galileo Galilei's children were baptized here.
In the churchyard stands the...
Church of Santa Lucia
The Church of Santa Lucia is an 18th-century church on Via Santa Lucia in Padua, first recorded as early as 964: behind its monumental facade lies an elegant interior peopled by twelve stone apostles, and it is the city's church of perpetual...
Church of Santa Maria dei Servi
The Church of Santa Maria dei Servi is the large Gothic church on Via Roma in Padua, easy to spot by its long portico along the street. Inside it keeps an unexpected treasure: a wooden crucifix attributed to Donatello.
The Donatello...
Loggia of the Reggia Carrarese
The Loggia of the Reggia Carrarese, on Via Accademia in Padua, is the only almost intact part of the palace of the Da Carrara, the lords of the city in the 14th century. Today it houses the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed...
Loggia and Odeo Cornaro
The Loggia and Odeo Cornaro is a refined early 16th-century complex on Via Cesarotti, a short walk from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua: the theater and music hall that the patron Alvise Cornaro had built in his garden.
The Loggia,...
St. Michael's Oratory
The Oratory of San Michele is a small chapel on Piazzetta San Michele in Padua, next to the Torlonga of the Castello Carrarese: inside is a complete cycle of late 14th-century frescoes, among the last of Padua's great age of painting.
The...
Palazzo Zabarella
Palazzo Zabarella is a medieval noble palace on the corner of Via Zabarella and Via San Francesco, in central Padua, best known for the major art exhibitions of the Fondazione Bano, often devoted to Italian painters of the 19th and 20th...
Antenor's Tomb
The Tomb of Antenor is a medieval shrine in central Padua, in front of the Prefecture building: a sarcophagus on columns under a cone-shaped roof, which the Middle Ages decided was the tomb of the Trojan hero who founded the city.
The...
City Walls
Padua's City Walls are the ring of walls, bastions and gates that encircles the city: above all the great Renaissance circuit built by Venice in the 16th century, never taken in battle, together with the inner medieval stretches.
Of the...
Casa Canonicale Petrarca
The Casa Canonicale Petrarca, on Via Dietro Duomo in Padua, is the 12th-13th-century house where Francesco Petrarca lived as a canon of the Cathedral. It is a stop for anyone following the poet's footsteps in the city, a few steps from the...
Church and Pinacoteca of San Tommaso Becket
The Church of San Tommaso Becket, or San Tomaso Cantuariense, is a Baroque church on Via San Tomaso in Padua, dedicated to the saintly Archbishop of Canterbury. Alongside its works of art, it keeps a collection of more than a thousand...
Jewish Ghetto
Padua's Jewish Ghetto is the maze of narrow streets just south of Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of the city: from 1603 to 1797 the Jews of Padua lived here, locked in at night.
On Via San Martino e Solferino is the Italian-rite...
Museum of the Risorgimento and the Contemporary Age
The Museum of the Risorgimento and the Contemporary Age is in the Caffè Pedrocchi building, next to the rooms of the piano nobile, in central Padua: a century and a half of Paduan and Italian history, from the fall of the Republic of Venice in...
Shrine of the Arcella
The Sanctuary of the Arcella, which the people of Padua call Sant'Antonino, is the Neo-Gothic church of the Arcella neighborhood, north of central Padua, built around the cell where Saint Anthony died on June 13, 1231.
The heart of the...
Torrione della Gatta
Abbey of Santo Stefano - Due Carrare
The Abbey of Santo Stefano is an ancient Benedictine abbey at Carrara Santo Stefano, in the scattered municipality of Due Carrare, in the province of Padua. Of the monastery the church and bell tower remain, but its history is tied to that of the...
Castle of Monselice
During the High Medieval, Monselice was a comitatus, with Este and Padua under its government. Monselice fell into the hands of Ezzelino da Romano, who ceded it to the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederic II of Swabia. Ezzelino had earlier married the...
Insectarium - Esapolis
Esapolis is an insectarium located in Padua, Italy, created through a collaboration between the Province of Padua and private initiatives. Covering an area of 2500 square meters, it is the largest exhibition facility in Italy dedicated to this...
Astronomical Clock
The Astrarium Clock of Padua, or astronomical clock, stands on the Clock Tower in Piazza dei Signori, between the Palazzo del Capitanio and the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi. With a 5.6-meter dial it is one of the largest of its kind.
The dial...
Porta Ognissanti
Porta Pontecorvo
The ancient Southern gate to the city and the entrance to the historic Contrada Antenore.
The door owes its name to the adjoining Pontecorvo bridge, an old Roman infrastructure with 3 arcades dating back to 120-130 AD which was then widened,...
Porta San Giovanni
Porta Santa Croce
Porta Savonarola
Sanctuary of Leopoldo Mandic
The Sanctuary dedicated to the life and works of the pious confessor of the city. The Church, dating back to the beginning of the 19th century, is part of a monastery complex of the order of Capuchin friars which includes also the Sanctuary of...
Baluardo Santa Croce
Bastione della Catena
Bastione San Giovanni
Santa Giustina Bastion
Casa Bonaffari
Bonaffari Palace is one of the few homes remaining of those originally built by the Carraresi family and its collaborators. It is situated in a central position on Piazza del Duomo, immediately in front of the basilica. The original exterior...
Customs House
The Casa della Dogana (Customs House) is considered as one of the most beautiful Romanic buildings in Padua, and has benefitted from a complete and accurate restoration. It was built near the medieval Gate of San Giovanni delle Navi, in 1294,...
Casa Riello
A stone on the front of the house at No. 11, Via Dante indicates that it was built in 1383 by Montorso Montorsi, a relation of Francesco the Elder the stone was placed in 1872, by the restorer Angelo Riello. Montorso, the son of Guglielmo...
Este Castle
The Castello d'Este ( castle of the Este') was built by Ubertino, signore of Padua, beginning in 1338, on the ruins of the 11th century castle of Alberto Azzo II d'Este. Seemingly impregnable, the Azzo castle was destroyed through the betrayal of...
Castle of San Martino della Vaneza
The tower of Castle San Martino della Vaneza can be seen from afar, in its setting of tall trees next to the flow of the Bacchiglione, at Cervarese Santa Croce. This was the location of a travel route used since ancient times and the site of a...