Tours / Padua

Padua: science, faith and legends

St Anthony’s Basilica, a 13th-century university and the Scrovegni Chapel.

2–3 hoursduration
Prato della Vallemeeting point
from €85/hourprice

A city with two thousand years of history where religion, science and mysticism meet.

Photos from the route

Palazzo della Ragione
Palazzo della Ragione
Prato della Valle
Prato della Valle
Donatello’s Gattamelata
Donatello’s Gattamelata

What is included

  • Walking tour with a guide
  • Help with Scrovegni Chapel tickets

FAQ

How do I get there from Venice?

Train, 30 minutes. We meet in Padua or travel together.

Voices of Italy

Philosophy is written in this grandest book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the universe).

La filosofia è scritta in questo grandissimo libro che continuamente ci sta aperto innanzi a gli occhi (io dico l’universo)

Galileo Galileilived and taught in Padua · 1564–1642Il Saggiatore (1623), VI
…we can endure neither our vices nor their remedies.

nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus

Livyfrom Padua · 59 BC – AD 17Ab Urbe condita, Praefatio 9
Alone and pensive, the most deserted fields / I measure out with slow and weary steps.

Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi / vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti

Francesco Petrarcalived and died in Arquà near Padua · 1304–1374Canzoniere, XXXV