Train tickets from Verona to Padua 
from 8,9 €

Exploring the Veneto region is easier by train: Italo takes you to Padua, the capital of the Trecento painting, nestled a few kilometers away from the nature of the Euganean Hills and the Venice Lagoon. The natural position of Padua makes this city the ideal destination for those looking for a place rich both in terms of nature and landscape. Start relaxing and, from the train station, reach the social heart of Padua, the triangle of the three most famous city squares: Piazza delle Erbe, Piazza della Frutta and Piazza dei Signori. The latter is so called because here was the Palazzo della Signoria, the palace of the Lords of Padua in the 14th century, the Carraresi. Look up and admire the architectural marvel that surrounds you: the elegant historic buildings that surround the square, the Church of San Clemente, the Palazzo del Capitanio and the Clock Tower. On the corner of the street that connects Piazza dei Signori to the Duomo you can admire and enter the Loggia del Consiglio (also called Gran Guardia), which in the 15th century was the palace where the city council used to gather. Climb the long staircase, enter the patio with its seven arches and access the upper room, decorated with a series of frescoes depicting legendary episodes of the city's life. Piazza della Frutta and delle Erbe immediately recall their original usefulness, which still exists today: the traditional markets that animate the city every morning and where you can buy fresh fruit or a mid-day snack. The discovery of the city's art continues in the nearby Duomo and Baptistery. If you are a lover of letters, you can pay homage to one of the pillars of Italian literature, Francesco Petrarca, who was a canon of the Duomo and who has an honorary sepulchral monument here. The Baptistery in particular offers a unique experience of art at 360 degrees: at the end of the 14th century Giusto De' Meanabuoi painted every centimeter of the interior walls up to the top of the dome with stories from the Genesis and the Apocalypse. Another symbol square of Padua is the huge elliptical Prato della Valle square, which is not only the largest in the city, but also one of the largest in Europe after the Red Square in Moscow. You can get there easily, always with a pleasant walk through the historic center, the typical shops and especially the ancient arcades that characterize the ancient shopping streets of Padua. Prato della Valle has always had recreational and commercial functions and it will not be difficult for you to find the markets that surround it. The peculiarity of this symbol place of Padua is that it does not have a typical configuration of a square, but it is more like a monumental walk among the 78 statues of characters from the past whose center is the Memmia Island, surrounded by a canal. Since you are in the area, don't miss another symbol of Padua, a destination for pilgrims from all over Italy and Europe, the Basilica of Sant'Antonio da Padua, called by the Paduani simply as Il Santo. Here the relics of the Saint and his tomb are kept, and it is worth visiting it to admire its magnificence and its artistic and architectural wealth. The icing on the cake of an art itinerary in Padua is then the Scrovegni Chapel, a fourteenth-century chapel dedicated to the Annunciation. Its external architecture is very simple but what you will find inside will take your breath away. Giotto has decorated this Chapel making it famous all over the world with his cycle of paintings dedicated to stories of the Old and New Testament: all is topped by an intense blue ceiling to symbolize the sky. Now that you have feasted on art, it's time to fill your stomach too! Start your Paduano food and wine tour by having a spritz, an aperitif invented right in Padua, to be tasted with some local salami. Delight yourself then with the bigoli, the thick artisanal spaghetti, or a dish based on white meat like oca in onto Paduana, to finish with a wide selection of Paduani desserts, like the sbrisolona cake or the pan del Santo. End the meal with a legendary coffee from the Caffé Pedrocchi, also called "without doors" because for all of the 19th century and until 1916 it remained open at any time of day and night. Do not wait any longer, buy your ticket on Italotreno and come to know Padua!