On a stiflingly hot day a couple weeks ago, I spent an afternoon in Padova (Padua), Italy, visiting some of the centuries-old Jewish heritage sites in the city — they are being developed now as both a ...

At Padua’s Piazza delle Erbe, the market is closed, the merchants are gone, and shadows have replaced harsh sunlight. As if waiting to reclaim their square, students spill out of colorful bars – ...

Repose of the sain: Constance outside the Basilica del Santo, home to the relics of St Anthony Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice stalked me (in a good way) on my recent trip to the province of Padova, ...

In the shadow of Venice, we visit three great cities: Padova, Verona and Ravenna. In the shadow of Venice, we visit three great cities. Padova is famed for its venerable university, precious Giotto ...

Padua (Padova in Italian) is a historic city located in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Venice and 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Verona. With a ...

A complex of eight historic clusters of buildings in the northern Italian walled city of Padua was added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) list of World ...

The city of Padova hosted a solemn wreath laying ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Padova’s Memoria e Luce or Memory and Light monument featuring a piece of the towers of the ...

I’m in Padua (just half an hour from Venice, but a world away), and I really like this town. Padua’s museums and churches hold their own in Italy’s artistic big league; its hotels are reasonably ...