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Padua
Mantegna in Padova
Padova is a city of the Veneto region that it little counts beyond 200.000 inhabitants and it constitutes in the region the cultural and economic pole longer tradition. In fact, Padova is famous in order to have been the second university city of the world, when in far away 1222 it followed the idea of Bologna and it allowed to insigni studious of the age above all finding space to the instruction and the search in the scientific disciplines, pack-saddles to remember Galileo Galilei and Copernico. The tradition wants that Padova has been founded from guerriors of Troy with Antenore head of which still today the tomb can be found in the public square omonima. Patavium was the roman name of which the rests of the Arena of it they testify the presence until the arrival of the Barbarians. The city developed a lot in the period of the Middle Ages as Common and the greater buildings they go back at that time, like the Palace of the Reason, the church of Giustina Saint nellla greatest public square of Prato of Goes them and from last the basilica of Sant'Antonio that represents one constant goal of pilgrims and visitors from all the world. The artistic and cultural patrimony of the city is large and of remarkable historical interest, because from always Padova it has been an important stage for many students and artists being the spirit of the city opened to the knowledge and at the same time legacy to the traditions. Giotto with the Nail head of the Scrovegni, Mantegna later with the church of the Scrovegni, Galileo with its observations to the telescope from the Bridge Flour mill and the tower of the Specola, Francisco Petrarch with its hatreds and poetries, and many others testify this vocation and this humus favorable to the limbs and the development of the human acquaintances. This spirit has favorite in the last few decades the development of the industrial imprenditoria and of the services, that they represent the skeleton of a center trades them and of shunting of the goodses that at the first level in East North of Italy, but that is a model nche for the rest of Italy. Padova today beyond to being a tourist goal of remarkable entity, is the fulcrum of the Veneto economy that with the two industrial areas, one to south-east and the other to north it recalls a traffic of goodses that with the Interporto finds outlet via earth, via straa shod and via water. The water is a great protagonist of the city, more in past, than today. Padova is delimited from two rivers that encircle it, the Bacchiglione and the Brenta, that they represent two natural outlets to the sea that the Veneta Republic took advantage of wide. This water wealth has produced the construction of numerous channels that cross the center and that today they are being revalued like green oasis to offer to the citizens. From last Padova it is remembered like the city, from the Saint without name (meant that Sant'Antonio is so famous that enough to say Saint in order to identify it), from the Prato without grass meaning the public square of Prato of Goes them that not grassy track was used for the race of the horses on one, and the Coffee without doors meaning the Pedrocchi Coffee, that it has two atrii one of forehead to the other that they allowed the attraversamento of the premises without to open doors, doors that today are.
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