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Best Western Hotel Biri, Padova ****
Padua, Veneto
Best Western Hotel Biri, Padova

The Biri is a splendid modern hotel in Padua. Offering superior four-star accommodation, the hotel is part of the worldwide Best Western chain. The Best Western Hotel Biri, Padova is just a few minutes away from the bustling business district of the city, close to the trade fair and within... View hotel

Double rooms from €63
Accademia Palace Hotel, Padua ****
Padua, Veneto
Accademia Palace Hotel, Padua

Accademia Palace Hotel, Padua - situated to the north east of the city centre, and just five minutes' drive from the main motorway exits, this Padua hotel is 200 metres walk from the City Court and Trade Exhibition Centre. View hotel

Double rooms from €52
Hotel Al Cason, Padova ***
Padua, Veneto
Hotel Al Cason, Padova

Hotel Ristorante Al Cason is a comfortable hotel located close to Padua's mainline railway station and just a short walk from the historic city centre. This attractive university town, just 30 minutes from Venice, has plenty to offer the tourist in the way of history and culture. View hotel

Double rooms from €59
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The city of Padua (or Padova) in the north-eastern Italian region of Veneto is one of the most ancient cities in Italy and has some superb sights - most famously the Giotto frescoes and the relics of St Anthony of Padua. A Roman municipium from 45BC, it has had a university since 1221, which attracted major artists including Donatello, Giotto and Fra Filippo Lippi. Padua was the birthplace of Andrea Palladio, who pretty much invented neoclassical architecture for the Italian country house (and thence throughout Europe).

The town also became a major pilgrimage centre (St Anthony again). It passed from the Huns, to the Goths, Greeks, Lombards, Franks, Magyars, Veneto and Austria. Even the 20th century saw much invaded Padua suffer again, this time from Allied bombing during World War II (the city was home to the Nazi puppet state of the Italian Social Republic).

Lost during the bombings was the superb Eremitani church, with its Mantegna frescoes. Much of importance survived however, and main sights in the town include the Cappella degli Scrovegni, the chapel housing the Giotto frecoes. The Palazzo della Ragione has more frescoes, and reputedly the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe. See too the Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova (Il Santo) and St George's Oratory (frescoes by Altichiero and Titian). There is the 10th century church of St Sofia, and the city art gallery in the bombed Church of the Eremitani. Ensure you take coffee in the marvellous Caffe Pedrocchi, a neoclassical gem from 1831.

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