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Prato della Valle

Prato della Valle

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Prato della Valle

Name: Prato della Valle
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Location: Padova, Veneto, Italy

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1. Piazza dei Signori, Padova – Palazzo della Ragione, Padua loop from Padova

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2. Piazza della Frutta, Padua – Piazza dei Signori, Padua loop from Stanga

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3. Prato della Valle – Basilica of Santa Giustina loop from Santa Rita

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

June 26, 2024

Prato della Valle, one of the symbols of Padua, is a large elliptical square that is not only the largest square in Padua, but also one of the largest in Europe (88620 m2), after Red Square in Moscow.
The square is actually a large monumental space characterized by a central green island, called Isola Memmia, in honor of the podestà that commissioned the works, surrounded by a moat decorated with a double base of numbered statues of famous figures from the past that according to the original plan there would be 88.
However, today we can only observe 78 statues with 8 pedestals surmounted by obelisks and 2 empty ones.
Four avenues cross the Prato via small bridges and then converge in the center of the islet.
The arrangement is inspired by the great Venetian tradition of the patrician garden; here, for the first time, this was withdrawn from private use and, according to neoclassical concepts, proposed as an urban planning solution and environmental qualification.
Source: padovanet.it/informazione/prato-della-valle

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1. Piazza dei Signori, Padova – Palazzo della Ragione, Padua loop from Padova

2. Piazza della Frutta, Padua – Piazza dei Signori, Padua loop from Stanga

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