Padua

Piazza della Frutta, Padua

Padua (Venetian: Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and commune in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Venice and 29 km (18 miles) southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 214,000 (as of 2011). It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000.

Quotes

• Padova la forte.
• Padua the strong.
  • Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 228

• LUCENTIO:
  Tranio, since for the great desire I had
  To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
  I am arriv’d for fruitful Lombardy,
  The pleasant garden of great Italy, [...]
  Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left
  And am to Padua come as he that leaves
  A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep,
  And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
  • Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, I, i

See also

• University of Padua