Padua

The city of Padua is home to a prestigious and oldest universities, boasts numerous testimonies of its glorious artistic and cultural past, which make it a destination for tourists from all over the world. Padua conserves one of the most extraordinary and revolutionary masterpieces of medieval art, the Scrovegni Chapel, shown at the beginning of the fourteenth century by Giotto.

It is universally known as the city of St. Anthony, the famous Portuguese Franciscan, born in Lisbon in 1195, who lived in Padua for several years and died there (June 13 1231). The remains of the saint are preserved in the Basilica of St. Anthony, the destination of many pilgrims from all over the world and one of the main monuments of the city.