Padua | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/10/2019

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00:01:56 1 Etymology
00:02:54 2 History
00:03:02 2.1 Antiquity
00:07:43 2.2 Late Antiquity
00:09:29 2.3 Frankish and Episcopal Supremacy
00:10:27 2.4 Emergence of the Commune
00:14:11 2.5 Venetian rule
00:16:07 2.6 Austrian rule
00:17:43 2.7 Italian rule
00:18:23 2.8 The 20th century
00:22:35 3 Geography
00:22:44 3.1 Climate
00:23:05 4 Main sights
00:32:23 4.1 Villas
00:33:19 4.2 Churches
00:34:50 4.3 Gallery
00:34:58 5 Culture
00:38:20 6 Demographics
00:40:09 7 Government
00:41:00 8 Consulates
00:41:27 9 Economy
00:42:11 10 Transport
00:42:20 10.1 By car
00:43:10 10.2 By rail
00:45:02 10.3 By aeroplane
00:45:46 10.4 Public transport
00:46:49 10.5 Statistics
00:47:38 11 Sports
00:50:44 12 Governance
00:50:53 12.1 Town twinning
00:51:04 13 Notable people
00:56:27 14 See also



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Padua (; Italian: Padova [ˈpaːdova] (listen); Venetian: Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (as of 2011). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian Venezia) and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of c. 2,600,000.
Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Venice and 29 km (18 miles) southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (Pianura Veneta). To the city's south west lies the Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley.
It hosts the University of Padua, founded in 1222, where later Galileo Galilei was a lecturer between 1592 and 1610.
The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls like a moat.
Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. There is a play by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde entitled The Duchess of Padua.
The city is also known for being the city where Saint Anthony, a Portuguese Franciscan (Anthony of Padua, also known as Anthony of Lisbon - city where he was born in 1195), spent part of his life and died in 1231.