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Monuments and Museums
Basilica of St. Anthony
P.zza del Santo
Tel. (+39)0498242811
The Basilica is the most splendid of the city's churches and the custodian of incredible works of art together with the tomb of the Saint. "Il Santo", that is, the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua begun in 1232 and it is the destination of millions of visitors and pilgrimages each year from all over the world.
Cappella degli Scrovegni
P.zza Eremitani, 8
Tel. (+39)0498204551
The frescoes in the Cappella degli Scrovegni are among the most celebrated works in the history of Italian and European art. They are considered the most complete cycle of frescoes realized by Giotto in his later years during the XIII century.
Orto Botanico
via Orto Botanico, 15
Tel. (+39)0498272119
The oldest University Botanical Gardens in the world.
The Republic of Venice set them up in 1545 for the cultivation of medicinal plants.
Today the gardens continue to serve their original purpose as a source of scientific research. In 1997 the Botanical Gardens entered the Unesco World Heritage list.
Caffè Pedrocchi
via VIII Febbraio, 15
Tel. (+39)04987821231
The Pedrocchi Café is one of the biggest cafés in the world. It's a magnificent 19th century building in the centre of Padova, Italy. Its rooms are decorated in various styles and show the great ecleptism of Giuseppe Jappelli, the famous architect who made the project of the buiding.
Cities of art
Venezia
According to tradition Venice takes her name from the Latin "vieni etiam" (come back) to underline the wish of those who have seen it once, to want to come back again...
www.provincia.venezia.it - www.comune.venezia.it - www.venezia.net
Verona
The city of lovers forever bound to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The city preserved her artistic heritage and romantic atmosphere to be felt while strolling through the thoroughfares of the historical centre.
The Roman Amphitheater, known as the Arena is considered the largest open theatre in Italy and it is the first treasure met by visitors entering the city...
www.comune.verona.it - www.provincia.verona.it - www.arena.it
Treviso
Water is the most prominent feature of this city also called the in-land Venice. The River Sile feeds a web of canals and even smaller rivers that run throughout the city. Beautiful stately homes and porticoed palaces featuring frescoes on their façades are scattered along these canals. The frescoes were prepared through a particular technique called "della Marca".
www.provincia.treviso.it - www.comune.treviso.it - www.trevisotour.org
Vicenza
Discover the city of Palladium through an itinerary, which reveals the soul of the elegant city of Vicenza, one of Unesco's World Heritage cities. The journey starts with a view from the summit of the hill of Monte Berico, which overlooks the city of Vicenza. It is a window on the city and on the mountains that were protagonists during the Great War. Now the hill is the home of the shrine of Our Lady of Monte Berico connected to the city below by a ramp lined with a series of arches dating from the XVIII century...
www.comune.vicenza.it - www.provincia.vicenza.it - www.vicenza.com
Around the city
Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei
Via Rana Ca Mori, 8 - Este
Tel. (+39)0429602796
The Euganean Hills Regional Park, about 18,700 hectars in extend, was fouded in 1989 and covers an area of grat geomorphological interest, characterized as it is by hills of volcanic origin which formed in the Oligocene about 35 million years ago.
Monte Venda, at 601 metres, is the highest of the formation.
Ville venete
I.R.V.V. - Istituto regionale per le ville venete
S. Marco, 63 - Venezia
Tel. (+39)0415230783
Around the mid 1500's many aristocratic Venetian families chose to build their homes away from Venice along the River Brenta and other beautiful areas inland in the region of Veneto.
Il Burchiello
Via Orlandini 3 - Padova
Tel: (+39)0498774712
From March to October "Il Burchiello" sails along the Riviera of Brenta, with itineraries that introduce visitors to many historic and cultural sites otherwise missed. The route of this motorboat allows visitors to see fifty of the most beautiful Venetian villas.
Golf Club Montecchia
Via Montecchia, 16 - Selvazzano Dentro (PD)
Tel. (+39)0498055550
18 holes
6318 meters
Par 72 - SSS73
Art and Culture
2007-2008 concert season
Nelson Freire's performance will start new concert season on October, 4, 2007. Up to 20 shows scheduled this season that's gonna be a reference point for Paduan and regional musical scene.
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"I Volti Di Padova" at Musei Civici Eremitani - Until 4 November
Padua celebrates the centenary of the birth of Fulvio Pendini. An opportunity to commemorate and rediscover a great Italian artist, very productive between the 30s and the 60s and involved in neo-vanguard experiences.
Concerts
On stage
Great rock concerts here in Padua, Michael Bublè, Dream Theater, Biagio Antonacci and more...
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