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Padua Sights

Basilica del Santo

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  • Address
    • Piazza del Santo City Centre
  • Website
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 049 824 28 11
  • Hours
    • 6.30am-7pm Nov-Feb, 6.30am-7.45pm Mar-Oct

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Lonely Planet review for Basilica del Santo

The soul of the city is the Basilica del Santo, a key pilgrimage site and burial site of the town’s patron saint, St Anthony of Padua (1193–1231). To get here, head from Piazza delle Erbe east along Via San Francesco, and when you hit Via del Santo, turn south and you emerge in the grand square of the same name. Construction of the church nicknamed Il Santo began in 1232, and over the years took on an unmistakable polyglot style: atop a Latin Cross base is the brick Italian Gothic structure, topped by a series of domes and towers that seem to take their cue from the east.

 

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