Padua A city in Italy

The events of the First and Second World Wars did not go unnoticed in Padua. But the city resisted. During the Second World War, the city was a center of guerrilla warfare against the Italian N***s, students and teachers of the local university took part in the resistance. In the postwar period, the University of Padua received a gold medal from the government for bravery in hostilities.

After returning home, the first Czechoslovak president, Tomas Harrig Masaryk, also visited Padua, where he met with King Victor Emmanuel III. and 16. in December 1918 he performed the parade of the Czechoslovak Legionob in Italy. [4]

Not far from the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua is one of the world's oldest, permanent Botanical Gardens of Padua, founded in 1545 by order of the Venice Senate to study and grow "medicinal plants" for the medical faculty of the University of Padua. In 1997, the Botanical Garden of Padua as a "prototype of all botanical gardens" in Western Europe was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

In the 14th century, the reformer of Italian painting Giotto worked here at the request of the Scrovegni family. Giotto's frescoes have been preserved and entered the treasury of art of Western Europe and the world, one of the prominent tourist centers of Padua.

The first visit here appeared in the 11-10 centuries. BC In the work of ancient Rome Padua was called Patavium (Patavium), here lived the tribes of the Veneti. Tradition has linked the founding of Padua to Antenor, a prince who allegedly escaped after the conquest and destruction of the cities of Troy by the Greeks and is descended from Virgil's Aeneid. The trust was so great that in the 13th century (1274) she found the remains of skeletons with weapons and gold coins, which were used with the prince with legends and reburied in an aedicule (the tomb of Antenor).

Padua is located at a distance of [2] about 400 km north of Rome, 36 km west of Venice.