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Padua, Italy
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Is the economic and
communications hub of the Veneto region (Eng. Venetia) in northern Italy.
The capital of Padova province, it stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40km
west of Venice and 29km southeast of Vicenza, with a population of 211,985
(2004). The city is included, with Venice (Italian Venezia), in the Padua-Venice
Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. Its agricultural setting is the
Pianura Padovana, the "Paduan plain," edged by the Euganaean Hills praised
by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley. 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.
