DEPARTURE FROM PADUA OR ABANO / MONTEGROTTO TERME
With this tour to Cittadella, you will be able to walk along the walls which in the Middle Ages were an insurmountable limit for militias from everywhere.
They have an average thickness of 2.10 meters and four access doors corresponding to the four cardinal points, identified by the city gates: Porta Padovana, Porta Bassanese, Porta Trevisana and Porta Vicentina, which all face the city from which they take their name.
Once you descend into the centre, step by step, you will then admire the important monuments of the city: the Captain's House, where the Captain of the Guards resided, with original frescoes dating back to the 16th century; the Tower of Malta, of which the terrifying tortures at the time of the tyrant Ezzelino III da Romano are narrated, even mentioned by Dante in the Divine Comedy; the Praetorian Palace, ancient seat of the Powers of the city of Padua; the Teatro Sociale, whose façade is attributed to the well-known Giuseppe Jappelli and the Cathedral with the Art Gallery.
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