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Explore interesting sights in Padua, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 43 sights are available in Padua, Italy.

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1. Torre dell'Orologio

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Torre dell'Orologio is a clock tower located in the Piazza (Plaza) Dei Signori and positioned between the Palazzo (Palace) del Capitanio and the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Padua, or Padova, Italy. It is also referred to as the astronomical clock of Padua.

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2. Palazzo della Ragione

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The Palazzo della Ragione is a medieval market hall, town hall and palace of justice building in Padua, in the Veneto region of Italy. The upper floor was dedicated to the town and justice administration; while the ground floor still hosts the historical covered market of the city. The palace separates the two market squares of Piazza delle Erbe from Piazza dei Frutti. It is popularly called "il Salone" . It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Padua's 14th-century fresco cycles.

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3. Caffé Pedrocchi

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Caffé Pedrocchi

The Pedrocchi Café is a café founded in the 18th century in central Padua, Italy. It has architectural prominence because its rooms were decorated in diverse styles, arranged in an eclectic ensemble by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli. The café has historical prominence because of its role in the 1848 riots against the Habsburg monarchy, as well as for being an attraction for artists over the last century from the French novelist Stendhal to Lord Byron to the Italian writer Dario Fo.

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4. Church of the Eremitani

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The Church of the Eremitani, or Church of the Hermits, is a former-Augustinian, 13th-century Gothic-style church in Padua, region of the Veneto, Italy. It is also now notable for being adjacent to the Cappella Scrovegni with Giotto frescoes and the municipal archeology and art gallery: the Musei Civici agli Eremitani, which is housed in the former Augustinian monastery located to the left of the entrance.

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5. Scrovegni Chapel

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The Scrovegni Chapel, also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The chapel and monastery are now part of the complex of the Musei Civici di Padova.

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6. San Tomaso Becket

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The church of San Tomaso Cantuariense, also known as the church of San Tomaso or Tommaso is a religious building that overlooks the "strà di San Tomaso" now Via San Tomaso in the district of Castel Vecchio in Padua. The building, named after Thomas Becket, was once a parish entrusted to the Philippine Fathers, now it is a parish run by secular clergy belonging to the Vicariate of the Cathedral. Inside the church there is an important collection of relics including the heart of St. Philip Neri and a portrait of him that sweated 27 times in 1632. The rich interior furnishings include works by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors such as Pietro Liberi, Francesco Maffei, Onofrio Gabrieli.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Tomaso Cantuariense (Padova) (IT)

7. Chiesa di San Pietro

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The church of San Pietro Apostolo is a religious building that overlooks Contrà San Pietro, now Via San Pietro in Padua. The church already existed in the 4th century, although it underwent a reconstruction at the end of the 11th century. Until 1809 it was the parish and church of the Benedictine nuns who had the title of canonesses in respect of a royal privilege of the ninth century. On 22 April 866 Louis II united it to the bishopric of Padua. The church is an extraordinary complex in which building and decorative phenomena ranging from the Middle Ages to the neo-Gothic are superimposed. Today it is a rectory subject to the Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo (Padova) (IT)

8. Porta Altinate

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The Porta Altinate or Porta di Ponte Altinà was one of the four "regales" entrances that opened onto the municipal walls of Padua. The gate rises on the first pier of the Roman Ponte Altinate - now not visible - which crosses the Naviglio Interno buried in the sixties of the last century to make room for the Via Riviera dei Ponti Romani. The gate and the bridge - as well as the following district - take their name from Altino, the city to which the road to which they gave access was headed. The gate is a busy pedestrian walkway to Piazza dei Noli, now Garibaldi.

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9. Chiesa della Beata Vergine Maria Immacolata

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The church of the Immaculate Madonna, also known as the church of Santa Maria Iconia, is a religious building that stands in Borgo Portello, now Via Belzoni in Padua. The current building was built in the fifties of the nineteenth century on a previous medieval one, dedicated to Santa Maria Iconia which was first of the Knights Templar, then commandery of the Knights of Malta who ruled it, with San Giovanni Battista delle Navi, until the Napoleonic ecclesiastical suppressions. Inside is the body of Blessed Antonio Manzoni, known as "the Pilgrim".

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Immacolata (Padova) (IT)

10. Castello Carrarese

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The Castelvecchio, formerly called Castello della Torlonga but today also known as Castello di Ezzelino, or Castello Carrarese or Castello di Padova, is a fortification of early medieval origin located on the bifurcation of the Bacchiglione where it divides into Tronco Maestro and Naviglio interno. It owes its current characteristics to the Da Carrara lordship. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was largely used as a state prison, while the keep, the Torlonga, has been the city's observatory since the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Castelvecchio (Padova) (IT)

11. Chiesa del Beato Antonio Pellegrino

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The church of Beato Antonio Pellegrino is a religious building of Renaissance origin that stands in Contrà San Giacomo, now Via Beato Pellegrino in Padua. The church, formerly of the Benedictine nuns, preserved the remains of Blessed Antonio Manzoni known as "the Pilgrim" placed today in the church of the Immaculate Conception. It is now a church officiated by the Romanian community of the Roman rite. The monastic complex of which it was part, after having been used as a hospital, is now largely occupied by the University of Padua.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Beato Antonio Pellegrino (IT)

12. Museo di Storia della Medicina in Padova (MUSME)

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Museo di Storia della Medicina in Padova (MUSME) Alessandro Ruzzier / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Museum of the History of Medicine of Padua (MUSME) is a museum open to the public since 2015 and located inside the ancient Hospital of San Francesco Grande, next to the church of San Francesco Grande in Padua. The museum, through its interactive tools and collections, illustrates to the public of all ages and education the evolution of medical science over the centuries, with particular reference to the history of medicine at the University of Padua, one of the most important medical schools in the West.

Wikipedia: MUSME (IT), Website

13. Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi

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Santa Maria dei Servi, or simply known as the Chiesa dei Servi, or more fully as the Church of the Nativity of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a 14th-century, Roman Catholic church that faces the Via Roma in Padua, region of the Veneto, Italy. This is a parish church in the vicariate of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta governed by the Servite Order. The church contains outstanding works of art including a wooden crucifix by Donatello.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Servi, Padua (EN)

14. Villa Molin

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Villa Molin is a patrician residence in the neighborhood of Mandria, in Ponte della Cagna, south of Padua, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed for Nicolò Molin, a Venetian noble, by Vincenzo Scamozzi and completed in 1597. It faces Mandriola, on the opposite side of the Canale di Battaglia. The original agricultural setting of the villa, composed of pasture and orchards, has given way to a residential dormitory community of Padua.

Wikipedia: Villa Molin (EN)

15. Palazzo Zuckermann

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Palazzo Zuckermann Antonio Rotta / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Palazzo Zuckermann is a palace located on corso Garibaldi in Padua, Italy. The building now houses the collections of the Museo di arti applicate e decorative on the first floor and the Museo Bottacin on the second floor; these collections form part of the Civic Museum of Padua. It stands across the street from the Cappella degli Scrovegni and the Museo agli Eremitani; the latter houses the main art gallery of the civic Museum of Padua.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Zuckermann, Padua (EN)

16. Santa Sofia

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Santa Sofia is the oldest Roman Catholic church structure in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It was built in the 10th century on the site of a presumed Mithraeum. A grant was made to bishop Sinibaldo of this church in 1123, which had already been in construction. The Romanesque stone and brick facade was constructed from 1106 to 1127, but the semicircular apse may date from earlier. The interior is now relatively bare.

Wikipedia: Santa Sofia, Padua (EN)

17. Orto Botanico di Padova

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The Orto Botanico di Padova is a botanical garden in Padua, in the northeastern part of Italy. Founded in 1545 by the Venetian Republic, it is the world's oldest academic botanical garden that is still in its original location. The garden – operated by the University of Padua and owned by the Italian government – encompasses roughly 22,000 square meters, and is known for its special collections and historical design.

Wikipedia: Orto botanico di Padova (EN), Website

18. Chiesa di San Benedetto Novello

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The church of San Benedetto Novello is a religious building of medieval origin that stands towards Riviera San Benedetto, in Padua. He went with the contiguous cenobio to host the male Benedictine community escaped from the "double" monastery of San Benedetto Vecchio, even if he then moved on to the Olivetani. Today, church and monastery titled to the Visitation of Santa Maria, belong to a community of cloistered nuns.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Benedetto Novello (IT)

19. Placido Cortese

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Placido Cortese Christian Michelides / CC BY-SA 4.0

The list of stumbling stones in Veneto contains the list of stumbling stones placed in Veneto. They commemorate the Venetian victims of the persecution of the Nazi-Fascist regime as part of an initiative by the German artist Gunter Demnig extended to the whole of Europe. The first stumbling block in Veneto was laid in Venice on 12 January 2014 in memory of those deported from the Israelite Rest Home in Cannaregio 2874.

Wikipedia: Pietre d'inciampo in Veneto (IT)

20. Cappella Ovetari

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Cappella Ovetari

The Ovetari Chapel is a chapel in the right arm of the Church of the Eremitani in Padua. It is renowned for a Renaissance fresco cycle by Andrea Mantegna and others, painted from 1448 to 1457. The cycle was destroyed by an Allied bombing in 1944: today, only two scenes and a few fragments survive, which have been restored in 2006. They are, however, known from black-and-white photographs.

Wikipedia: Ovetari Chapel (EN)

21. Chiesa di San Canziano

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The church of San Canziano is a religious building of medieval origin that stands in the center of Padua, towards Piazza delle Erbe. Currently, it is a rectory entrusted to the Legionary priests of Christ. At this time, it is officially the only church in the diocese of Padua where Mass is celebrated on Sundays and holy days of obligation in the traditional form of the Roman rite.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Canziano (Padova) (IT)

22. Porta di Ponte Molino

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The Porta Molino or Porta dei Molini was the main of the four royal entrances that opened into the medieval walls of Padua. Facing north, it rises at the end of the Roman Ponte Molino that crosses the branch of the Bacchiglione called Tronco Maestro where until 1884 thirty-three wheels of as many mills mounted on boats worked, from which the gate and the bridge take their name.

Wikipedia: Porta Molino (IT)

23. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Vienna

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The Church of St. Anthony the Abbot, known as the Church of St. Anthony of Vienna, is a medieval religious building that stands in Contrà Savonarola, in Padua, Italy. The building was part of a religious complex first occupied by the Canons of St. Anthony of Vienne and then by the Lateran Canons. Today it is officiated as the chapel of the Don Nicola Mazza University College.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Vienna (IT)

24. Monumento equestre al Gattamelata

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Monumento equestre al Gattamelata

The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is an Italian Renaissance sculpture by Donatello, dating from 1453, today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy. It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the Republic of Venice, which ruled Padua at the time. It is the first full-size equestrian statue of the Italian Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Gattamelata (EN)

25. Loggia Amulea

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The Loggia Amulea is a neo-Gothic palace located in Prato della Valle, the largest square in Padua. The building was the headquarters of the Padua fire brigade from 1906 to 1989; Later it houses some municipal offices. The front of the building is characterized by an elegant loggia; In the room adjacent to the large balcony, civil weddings are sometimes celebrated.

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26. Chiesa di San Francesco

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The church dedicated to saint Francis of Assisi, known for centuries as San Francesco Grande is a religious building on the Via San Francesco, previously overlooks the Contra porteghi high in Padua, Italy. Through the efforts of Baldo de Bonafarii and Sibilla de Cetto, the convent of the Friars Minor and the Hospital of Saint Francis, Major, operated until 1798.

Wikipedia: San Francesco Grande, Padua (EN)

27. Santuario dell'Arcella

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The Sanctuary of Arcella, popularly known as Sant'Antonino, is a Roman Catholic church located in the neighborhood of Arcella, just north of the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The sanctuary preserves the room in which St Anthony of Padua died on June 13, 1231. Today it also serves as a parish church, ministered by monks of the Franciscan order.

Wikipedia: Sanctuary of Arcella, Padua (EN)

28. Museo della Fisica Giovanni Poleni

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The Museum of History of Physics is located at the "Galileo Galilei" Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Padua. The museum preserves a collection of ancient scientific tools closely linked to the scientific past of the University of Padua, which from the eighteenth century was characterized by innovation and experimental vocation.

Wikipedia: Museo di storia della fisica dell'Università di Padova (IT), Website

29. San Leopoldo Mandić

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San Leopoldo Mandić

Leopold Maria Mandić [Mandich], OFMCap was a Croatian Capuchin friar and Catholic priest, who suffered from disabilities that would plague his speech and stature. He developed tremendous spiritual strength in spite of his disabilities and became extremely popular in his ministry as a confessor, often spending 12–15 hours in the confessional.

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30. Abbey of Santa Giustina

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The Abbey of Santa Giustina is a 10th-century Benedictine abbey complex located in front of the Prato della Valle in central Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. Adjacent to the former monastery is the basilica church of Santa Giustina, initially built in the 6th century, but whose present form derives from a 17th-century reconstruction.

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31. Tempio della Pace

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The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, better known as the Temple of Peace, is a Catholic place of worship and shrine in Padua, located in Via Niccolò Tommaseo, not far from the railway station; it is the seat of the parish of the same name, belonging to the Cathedral Vicariate of the Diocese of Padua.

Wikipedia: Tempio della Pace (Padova) (IT)

32. Tomba di Antenore

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The Tomb of Antenor, also called the Sepulchre of Antenore, is a 13th-century monument created to honor an unearthed ancient sarcophagus, claimed to be that of the Trojan warrior and counselor Antenor, the legendary founder of Padua; it is located in Piazza Antenore, in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Tomb of Antenor (EN)

33. Porta Liviana

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The Liviana door was one of the main access doors of the sixteenth -century walls of Padua. Also known as Porta Ponte Corvo, from the name of the location where it stands, it is called Liviana in honor of Bartolomeo d'Alviano, the Renaissance leader and strategist who designed the defenses of Padua.

Wikipedia: Porta Liviana (IT)

34. Palazzo Zabarella

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Palazzo Zabarella . The original uploader was Ilnuovocorsaronero at Italian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Palazzo Zabarella is a medieval, fortress-like palace with a crenellated roof-line, and corner tower, located on Via San Francesco 27 in the center of Padua, Italy. The building now houses the Fondazione Bano, and serves as a locale for cultural events and exhibition.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Zabarella (EN)

35. Chiesa delle Dimesse

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The church of Santa Maria Assunta delle Dimesse, better known as the church of the Dimesse, is a seventeenth-eighteenth-century religious building that stands in Contrà delle Dimesse in Padua. The church is part of the College of Noble Resignation founded in 1615.

Wikipedia: Chiesa delle Dimesse (IT)

36. Loggia e Odeo Cornaro

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The Loggia and Odeo Cornaro are two Renaissance buildings, built in the 16th century for the humanist Alvise Cornaro and hosting theater and music performances, locate in via Cesarotti 37 in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. They are now part of the city's museums.

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37. Cappella di San Giacomo (Altichiero)

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The chapel of St. James or St. Felix is located in the basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. Initially it was dedicated to St. James, from whom it took its name: in 1503 the relics of Pope Felix II were transferred there and therefore the chapel was dedicated to him.

Wikipedia: Cappella di San Giacomo (Padova) (IT)

38. Battistero

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The Padua Baptistery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a baptistery on the Piazza del Duomo next to the cathedral in Padua, Italy. Preserved inside is one of the most important fresco cycles of the 14th century, a masterpiece by Giusto de' Menabuoi.

Wikipedia: Padua Baptistery (EN)

39. Villa Giusti

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Villa Giusti or Villa Giusti del Giardino is a villa in Mandria, outside of Padua in Northern Italy. It is notable for being the site of the signing of the Armistice of Villa Giusti that ended the First World War on the Italian Front.

Wikipedia: Villa Giusti (EN)

40. ex-Convento di Sant'Orsola

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The convent of St. Ursula of Padua was a religious building of medieval origin, founded by Enrico Scrovegni, now used as a private residence, located along the Roncajette river in the district of San Gregorio Magno.

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41. Duomo di Padova

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Padua Cathedral, or Basilica Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, is a Catholic church and minor basilica located on the east end of Piazza Duomo, adjacent to the bishop's palace in Padua, Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Padua Cathedral (EN)

42. Chiesa di Sant'Andrea

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Sant'Andrea is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Sant'Andrea in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. Founded by the 12th-century as a parish church, the present church was completed in the late 19th century.

Wikipedia: Sant'Andrea, Padua (EN)

43. Chiesa di San Clemente

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San Clemente, or St Clement, is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church that overlooks the Piazza dei Signori in Padua, Italy. It is currently a dependent of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta.

Wikipedia: San Clemente, Padua (EN)

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