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Padua is growing constantly, and its commercial and industrial development in the last few decades have made it one of the main cities of North-East Italy.
However, the place has managed to keep a lot of its medieval character intact: surrounded by sixteenth-century walls, the old city centre is a place of busy market squares, waterways and silent arcaded streets where one can find towers, churches, palaces and surprising secret gardens.
The river running through the city continues on to the Venetian lagoon, flowing past numerous magnificent villas built as country residences for the aristocrats of Venice. And Venice is only one of the place you can visit from here, taking advantage of Padua's conveniently central position: just beyond the outskirts of the city are the Euganean Hills (now a Regional National Park), whilst in twenty minutes you can get to Vicenza and its Palladian villas, and in less than an hour you can be on the coast of the Adriatic... (view more)
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