Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Padua, Italy

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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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 church of Santa Margherita is a religious building of medieval origin that overlooks Via San Francesco, in Padua.

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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 Palazzo Zabarella is a medieval, fortress-like palace with a crenellated roof-line, and corner tower, located on Via San Francesco 27 in the center of Padua, Italy. The building now houses the Fondazione Bano, and serves as a locale for cultural events and exhibition.

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The Tomb of Antenor, also called the Sepulchre of Antenore, is a 13th-century monument created to honor an unearthed ancient sarcophagus, claimed to be that of the Trojan warrior and counselor Antenor, the legendary founder of Padua; it is located in Piazza Antenore, in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

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The Ponte San Lorenzo is a Roman bridge over the river Bacchiglione in Padua, Italy. Constructed between 47 and 30 BC, it is one of the very earliest segmental arched bridges in the world. It is also notable for the slenderness of its piers, unsurpassed in antiquity.

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The church of San Canziano is a religious building of medieval origin that stands in the center of Padua, towards Piazza delle Erbe. Currently, it is a rectory entrusted to the Legionary priests of Christ. At this time, it is officially the only church in the diocese of Padua where Mass is celebrated on Sundays and holy days of obligation in the traditional form of the Roman rite.

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The Italian Synagogue of Padua is the only synagogue still in use of the several that flourished in the university town of Padua from the Renaissance through World War II.

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The Museum of Education of the University of Padua is located at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology FISPPA and preserves material from the past relating to the formation of the individual, starting from birth to adulthood.

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Padua Cathedral, or Basilica Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, is a Catholic church and minor basilica located on the east end of Piazza Duomo, adjacent to the bishop's palace in Padua, Veneto, Italy.

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The Loggia dei Carraresi is a historic building in Padua, Italy, located in Via Accademia. It is the last surviving part of the Carrarese Palace, the great residence of the Da Carrara family, lords of Padua. Since 2021 it has been included by UNESCO among the World Heritage Sites in the site of the fourteenth-century fresco cycles of Padua.

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The Padua Baptistery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a baptistery on the Piazza del Duomo next to the cathedral in Padua, Italy. Preserved inside is one of the most important fresco cycles of the 14th century, a masterpiece by Giusto de' Menabuoi.

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

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The Loggia del Consiglio, also known as the Loggia della Gran Guardia, is a Renaissance building overlooking Piazza dei Signori in Padua, Italy. It was built in 1491 as the seat of the Grand Council. It was built on a project presented by Annibale Maggi and the factory was completed in 1536, according to some studies, under the direction of Giovanni Maria Falconetto. The upper room was frescoed in 1667 by Pier Antonio Torri. During the Austrian domination it became the seat of the "Gran Guardia", the military command of the city.

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Torre dell'Orologio is a clock tower located in the Piazza (Plaza) Dei Signori and positioned between the Palazzo (Palace) del Capitanio and the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Padua, or Padova, Italy. It is also referred to as the astronomical clock of Padua.

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San Clemente, or St Clement, is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church that overlooks the Piazza dei Signori in Padua, Italy. It is currently a dependent of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta.

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The Palazzo della Ragione is a medieval market hall, town hall and palace of justice building in Padua, in the Veneto region of Italy. The upper floor was dedicated to the town and justice administration; while the ground floor still hosts the historical covered market of the city. The palace separates the two market squares of Piazza delle Erbe from Piazza dei Frutti. It is popularly called "il Salone" . It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Padua's 14th-century fresco cycles.

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The Pedrocchi Café is a café founded in the 18th century in central Padua, Italy. It has architectural prominence because its rooms were decorated in diverse styles, arranged in an eclectic ensemble by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli. The café has historical prominence because of its role in the 1848 riots against the Habsburg monarchy, as well as for being an attraction for artists over the last century from the French novelist Stendhal to Lord Byron to the Italian writer Dario Fo.

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The Cat of St. Andrew, popularly called the Cat, is a monument of medieval origin that is located in the small churchyard of the church of Sant'Andrea in Padua. The monument, consisting of a stone sculpture depicting a lion placed on a Roman column, was demolished on 23 September 2013 by a manoeuvring means of transport and relocated on 19 March 2015.

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The Church of San Gaetano is found in the central district of Padua, and its facade was designed by the late Renaissance architect Vincenzo Scamozzi.

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Santa Sofia is the oldest Roman Catholic church structure in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It was built in the 10th century on the site of a presumed Mithraeum. A grant was made to bishop Sinibaldo of this church in 1123, which had already been in construction. The Romanesque stone and brick facade was constructed from 1106 to 1127, but the semicircular apse may date from earlier. The interior is now relatively bare.

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The church of the Immaculate Madonna, also known as the church of Santa Maria Iconia, is a religious building that stands in Borgo Portello, now Via Belzoni in Padua. The current building was built in the fifties of the nineteenth century on a previous medieval one, dedicated to Santa Maria Iconia which was first of the Knights Templar, then commandery of the Knights of Malta who ruled it, with San Giovanni Battista delle Navi, until the Napoleonic ecclesiastical suppressions. Inside is the body of Blessed Antonio Manzoni, known as "the Pilgrim".

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The Museum of the History of Physics is located at the Department of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei" of the University of Padua. The museum preserves a collection of ancient scientific instruments closely linked to the scientific past of the University of Padua, which since the eighteenth century has been characterized by innovation and experimental vocation.

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The Porta Ognissanti is one of the gates that still exists within the sixteenth-century walls of Padua, built by the Serenissima Republic.

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The Church of Ognissanti is a religious building of early medieval origin that stands in Contrà Ognissanti, now Via Ognissanti, in Padua. The church, built near a xenodochium, was part of a Benedictine monastic complex until the Napoleonic suppressions. Vincenzo Scamozzi worked on the restoration of the building in the sixteenth century.

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