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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.