Padua in the Veneto region

Saturday, 28 April 2012 - 01:54 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
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Prato della Valle, the famous square of Padua © Dan00nad

Prato della Valle, the famous square of Padua © Dan00nad

Padua (Italian: Padova) is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua’s population is 214,000. The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian: Venezia) and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having a population of c. 1,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 km west of Venice and 29 km southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (Pianura Veneta). To the city’s south west lies the Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley.

It hosts the renowned University of Padua, almost 800 years old and famous, among other things, for having had Galileo Galilei among its lecturers.

Prato della Valle © www.schaefer-bonk.de - Philip Schäfer The Basilica of St Giustina, facing the Piazza of Prato della Valle © Ricardo André Frantz Palazzo della Ragione Padua © Stefan Bauer - www.ferras.at Loggia della Gran Guardia © Riccardo Pesce Botanical Garden - Orto Botanico © Giovanni Iachello Padua Cathedral © Schubbay © flickr.com - Giulia Ciappa Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua © Ricardo André Frantz Prato della Valle, the famous square of Padua © Dan00nad
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The Basilica of St Giustina, facing the Piazza of Prato della Valle © Ricardo André Frantz
The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls like a moat. Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

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