Padua

About Padua

Home to the poet Dante and the partial setting for Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew,” Padua is bursting with historic and cultural significance. Perched on the Bacchiglione River, the city is a colorful tapestry of tightly wound streets that spill open into vast communal piazzas. Mostly flat, this is a great place for walking or bicycling your way around. An OG university town, with past scholars including Galileo, Copernicus, and Petrarch, Padua may give visitors the majestic sense that they’ve traveled back in time.