Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Padua, Italy

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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The Ponte San Lorenzo is a Roman bridge over the river Bacchiglione in Padua, Italy. Constructed between 47 and 30 BC, it is one of the very earliest segmental arched bridges in the world. It is also notable for the slenderness of its piers, unsurpassed in antiquity.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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The Church of San Gaetano is found in the central district of Padua, and its facade was designed by the late Renaissance architect Vincenzo Scamozzi.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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The Basilica del Carmine is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located on piazza Francesco Petrarca in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It was made a minor basilica in 1960 by pope John XXIII

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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.

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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.

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