Padova.it Agriturismo Padova

Padua is the more populed city of the Veneto, and is the economic center and of the communications in the region, it is found to approximately 40 kilometers from Venice, on this situated one you will be able to find numerous regarding information the tourism and l’agriturismo to Padova, a directory of the main manifestations and one book review of the best farm holidays of the province of Padova. The Terme Euganee, and the Euganei Colli are goal of many tourists who often visit the province and sostano in a farm holidays to Padova.

Below you will find a list of the commons of the province of Padua in population order.

Common position Residents Density for kmq Number Families

Saint Anthony of Padua, also venerated as Anthony of Lisbon, particulalrly in Portugal (1195 - June 13, 1231) is a Catholic saint born in Lisbon as Fernando de Bulhões, to a wealthy family.

He received in baptism the name of Fernando. He became a Franciscan in 1221 taking the new name of Anthony when he joined the Order of Friars Minor in honor of Saint Anthony the Great (251-356).

He later moved from his native Lisbon to teach theology in Padua, Italy.

He was an eloquent preacher with a loud and clear voice, a winning smile, a wonderful memory, and profound learning. With the zeal of an apostle he undertook to reform the morality of his time by combating in an especial manner the vices of luxury, avarice, and tyranny.


He holds the record for the fastest canonization in history: he was declared a saint 352 days after his death (Pentecost, May 30, 1232). His feast day is on June 13th, a day of popular and sumptuous celebrations in Lisbon.

History of Padua

Padua claims to be the oldest city in north Italy; the early medieval commune justified itself by a fabled founder in the Trojan Antenor, whose relics the commune recognized in a large stone sarcophagus exhumed in the year 1274. The historical Padua inhabited by Veneti thrived thanks to its excellent breed of horses and the wool of its sheep. Its men fought for the Romans at Cannae, and the city (a Roman municipium since 45 BCE (query 43?)) became so powerful that it was reported able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men. Abano nearby is the birthplace of the historian Livy, and Padua was the native place of Valerius Flaccus, Asconius Pedianus and Thrasea Paetus. Padua, in common with north-eastern Italy, suffered severely from the invasion of the Huns under Attila (452). It then passed under the Gothic kings Odoacer and Theodoric the Great, but during the Gothic War it made submission to the Greeks in 540.

Monuments of the historic center

The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length 815m, its breadth 27m, and its height 24m; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

Padua

The city of Padua is the economic and communications hub of the Veneto region in northern Italy. The capital of Padova province, it stands on the Bacchiglione river, 40km west of Venice and 29km southeast of Vicenza, with a population of 211,985 (2004). Its agricultural setting is the Pianura Padovana, the "Paduan plain," edged by the Euganaean Hills praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch and Ugo Foscolo. 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 was where most of the action in Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew, took place.