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February 16th, 2008
To The University
Via Umberto I leads up towards the university , the main block of which is the Palazzo del Bò (The Ox - titled after an inn that used to stand here). Established in September 1221, the University of Padua is older […]
Category: Padua - Padova
February 16th, 2008
South Side Of The Piazza
To the left as you leave the basilica are the Oratorio di San Giorgio and Scoletta del Santo . The oratory (daily: April-Sept 9am-12.30pm & 2.30-7pm; Oct-March 9am-12.30pm & 2.30-5pm; L3000/¬1.55) was founded in 1377 as a mortuary chapel, and […]
Category: Padua - Padova
February 16th, 2008
Prato Della Valle And Santa Giustina
Prato della Valle , claimed to be the largest town square in Italy, is a generally cheerless area, […]
Category: Padua - Padova
February 16th, 2008
Piazza Del Santo And The Basilica
Apart from the encampment of stalls selling decorated candles and outsize souvenir rosaries, the main sight of the Piazza del Santo, a 10min achievement south, is Donatello’s Monument to Gattamelata (which translates literally as “The Honeyed Cat”), as the condottiere Erasmo da Narni was known. […]
Category: Padua - Padova
February 16th, 2008
Eremitani
The church of the Eremitani , built at the turn of the fourteenth century, was almost completely wrecked by an Allied bombing raid in 1944 and has been fastidiously rebuilt (summer Mon-Sat 8.15am-12.15pm & 4-6pm, Sun 9.30am-12.15pm & 4-6pm; winter Mon-Sat closes 5.30pm, Sun closes 5pm). Photographs to the left […]
Category: Padua - Padova
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