Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Padua, Italy

The Museum of the History of Medicine of Padua (MUSME) is a museum open to the public since 2015 and located inside the ancient Hospital of San Francesco Grande, next to the church of San Francesco Grande in Padua. The museum, through its interactive tools and collections, illustrates to the public of all ages and education the evolution of medical science over the centuries, with particular reference to the history of medicine at the University of Padua, one of the most important medical schools in the West.

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The church dedicated to saint Francis of Assisi, known for centuries as San Francesco Grande is a religious building on the Via San Francesco, previously overlooks the Contra porteghi high in Padua, Italy. Through the efforts of Baldo de Bonafarii and Sibilla de Cetto, the convent of the Friars Minor and the Hospital of Saint Francis, Major, operated until 1798.

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The Scuola della Carità in Padua is a building of medieval origin that from the first decades of the fifteenth century was the headquarters of the Confraternity of Charity, a lay congregation dedicated to devotional and welfare activities, until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The complex is used for cultural activities.

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Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a small, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church and convent located on via Cesare Battisti #245 in the city of Padua in the region of Veneto, Italy.

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The Loggia and Odeo Cornaro are two Renaissance buildings, built in the 16th century for the humanist Alvise Cornaro and hosting theater and music performances, locate in via Cesarotti 37 in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. They are now part of the city's museums.

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The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is an Italian Renaissance sculpture by Donatello, dating from 1453, today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy. It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the Republic of Venice, which ruled Padua at the time. It is the first full-size equestrian statue of the Italian Renaissance.

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The Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Padua, Veneto, Northern Italy, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua.

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The chapel of St. James or St. Felix is located in the basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. Initially it was dedicated to St. James, from whom it took its name: in 1503 the relics of Pope Felix II were transferred there and therefore the chapel was dedicated to him.

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The Oratorio di San Giorgio or St George's Oratory is a Gothic-style Roman Catholic chapel or prayer hall in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It is notable for its frescoed interiors.

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The list of stumbling stones in Veneto contains the list of stumbling stones placed in Veneto. They commemorate the Venetian victims of the persecution of the Nazi-Fascist regime as part of an initiative by the German artist Gunter Demnig extended to the whole of Europe. The first stumbling block in Veneto was laid in Venice on 12 January 2014 in memory of those deported from the Israelite Rest Home in Cannaregio 2874.

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San Daniele is a Roman Catholic church and monastery in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

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Palazzo Capodilista is a historic building in Padua, Italy.

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Santa Maria dei Servi, or simply known as the Chiesa dei Servi, or more fully as the Church of the Nativity of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a 14th-century, Roman Catholic church that faces the Via Roma in Padua, region of the Veneto, Italy. This is a parish church in the vicariate of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta governed by the Servite Order. The church contains outstanding works of art including a wooden crucifix by Donatello.

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The church of San Luca Evangelista is a religious building of medieval origin that stands in Via XX Settembre, in the historic center of Padua. It was originally dedicated to the twelve apostles.

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The Castelvecchio, formerly called Castello della Torlonga but today also known as Castello di Ezzelino, or Castello Carrarese or Castello di Padova, is a fortification of early medieval origin located on the bifurcation of the Bacchiglione where it divides into Tronco Maestro and Naviglio interno. It owes its current characteristics to the Da Carrara lordship. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was largely used as a state prison, while the keep, the Torlonga, has been the city's observatory since the eighteenth century.

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The church of San Tomaso Cantuariense, also known as the church of San Tomaso or Tommaso is a religious building that overlooks the "strà di San Tomaso" now Via San Tomaso in the district of Castel Vecchio in Padua. The building, named after Thomas Becket, was once a parish entrusted to the Philippine Fathers, now it is a parish run by secular clergy belonging to the Vicariate of the Cathedral. Inside the church there is an important collection of relics including the heart of St. Philip Neri and a portrait of him that sweated 27 times in 1632. The rich interior furnishings include works by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors such as Pietro Liberi, Francesco Maffei, Onofrio Gabrieli.

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Kenny Random, pseudonym of Andrea Coppo, is an Italian artist and writer.

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La Specola is a 14th-century tower, formerly part of a medieval castle, and converted in 1767 into an astronomical observatory (specula) in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

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The San Michele Oratory or Oratory of San Michele is an oratory chapel in Padova, Italy. The interior is painted with a cycle of frescoes on the life of the Virgin Mary by Jacopo da Verona.

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The Madonna Addolorata al Torresino, also called the Santa Maria del Pianto or Santa Maria del Torresino is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

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Santa Maria in Vanzo is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic church in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

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