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The Province of Padua (''Provincia di Padova'') is a
The territory is usually divided in the capital city, Padua, and its hinterland, formed by the nearby municipalities; the ''Alta Pianura'' (higher plain), north of the city; the ''Bassa Pianura'' (lower plain), south of the city, including the ''
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...
in the Veneto region of Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
. Its capital is the city of Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of t ...
.
Geography
It has an area of 2,142 km2, and a total population of 936,492 (2016) making it the most populated province of Veneto. There are 102 '' comuni'' in the province.
The territory is usually divided in the capital city, Padua, and its hinterland, formed by the nearby municipalities; the ''Alta Pianura'' (higher plain), north of the city; the ''Bassa Pianura'' (lower plain), south of the city, including the ''Saccisica
The Saccisica, sometimes also called the Piovese, is a historic area consisting of the comuni of Arzergrande, Bovolenta, Brugine, Codevigo, Correzzola, Legnaro, Piove di Sacco, Polverara, Pontelongo and Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco. It ...
'' in the south-east; and the '' Colli Euganei'' (Euganei hills) south-west of the city. The Euganei hills are the only heights of the entire province, the other parts being totally plain.
History
The borders of the province are almost the same of the Medieval commune of Padua, with just some adjustment in the north-east. The territory was administered within these boundaries since the time of theRepublic of Venice
The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia ...
, but the modern province comes directly from the administrative divisions of Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia ( la, links=no, Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" ( it, links=no, Regno Lombardo-Veneto, german: links=no, Königreich Lombardo-Venetien), was a constituent land ...
. The Diocese of Padua
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua ( it, Diocesi di Padova; la, Dioecesis Patavina) is an episcopal see of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century.
Extra-large hail in Padua
Provincia di Padova homepage (in Italian)
Knowing Padua - June 2010
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Main sights
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of t ...
is home to some masterpieces from Medieval
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and Renaissance
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art and architecture, while the towns of Cittadella and Montagnana
Montagnana is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Padova, in Veneto (northern Italy). Neighbouring communes are Borgo Veneto, Casale di Scodosia, Urbana, Bevilacqua, Pojana Maggiore, Pressana, Minerbe and Roveredo di Guà . , the populati ...
are known for the well preserved Medieval city walls. There are numerous villas in the countryside, a few of them from Palladio
Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of ...
, the main ones being Villa Contarini (in Piazzola sul Brenta) and Villa Barbarigo (in Valsanzibio). The Euganei hills offer a relaxing naturalistic site, often covered in woods, while at their eastern slopes there are many ancient spa
A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer various health treatments, which are also known as balneothe ...
sites: the ''Terme Euganee'', as Abano Terme, Montegrotto Terme, Galzignano Terme, Battaglia Terme. There is a small part of the Venetian Lagoon lying inside the province, the ''Valle Millecampi'' ("one-thousand-fields valley"); and also the river landscapes of the countryside include naturalistic routes, even for cycling or horse-riding. Travelling by boat is possible as well.
Climate
The most part of the province has a temperate sub-continental climate for theKöppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, nota ...
''Cfa''); only part of the Colli Euganei have a milder climate, because their southern slopes are above the thermal inversion line by winter, and exposed to the Sun all the year: which allows them to cultivate small olive trees.
The winter is usually moderately cold in the province, avoiding both warm and cold extremes; frost is very common at plain (below the thermal inversion line) with about 60–70 frost days a year, and temperatures usually do not get lower than −8/−12 °C in the plains during the year; but the all-times record for Padua is −19.2 °C by January 1985. The lower plain is slightly colder than the higher plain; snowfalls are highly variable from year to year, and one could see winters with almost no snow as years with frequent snowfalls (Padua has a century average of almost during a year). Fog is a common phenomenon, even lasting all the day long, above all in the lower plain.
Summers are moderately hot and wet, warmer and less rainy in the lower plain, while the higher plain is often hit by thunderstorms; Padua has a record of +39.8 °C by August 2003, and usually gets above +36 °C in a year.
Spring and autumn are changeable seasons, which may experience wintry or sultry weather, heavy rainfalls or pleasant sunny days. The period between April and June is usually the wettest one in a year.
Extreme events may sometime hit the province. Flooding is a well-known phenomenon since ancient time, so that all the rivers and channels which cross the plain are embanked, and many channels were dug to avoid frequent flooding. The worst recent events were on 4 November 1966 and on 2 November 2010.
Snowstorms, with some inch of fresh snow and strong ''Bora'' gusts, may happen during a normal winter, but rarely can be considered like a ''blizzard
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling ...
'', and usually they do not last more than 1–2 days and with no more than of snow. Anyway, a really exceptional event happened during the winter of 1608: a snowfall that lasted for 40 consecutive days, from late January to early March, with the snow depth at ground reaching at least 6–7 ft (about 2m) as witnessed by Galileo; a similar event never repeated.
Rarely, between May and September, tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, alt ...
es may hit the area as well. The most famous were the one of 17 August 1756, bringing heavy damages to Padua; and the one of 11 September 1970, starting from Colli Euganei and passing through Paduan metropolitan area
The Padua metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Padua in Veneto, Italy.
It has been constituted as ''Metropolitan conference of Padua'' (act number 37 of 25 March 2003). It is not by now recognised by the Italian Republic amo ...
to end over Venice
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, an F2 (intensifying up to F4 going onto Venice) on the Fujita scale
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. Hailstorms are possible as well by summer, the worst recent event having been on 28 August 2003.Economy
The province has a thriving economy, in the metropolitan area and the ''Alta Pianura'', due to the presence of numerous enterprises of every kind, mainly industrial ones, but also from tertiary and primary economical sectors; these areas are also densely populated. The ''Bassa Pianura'' is instead a mainly rural area, thus being poorer and less populated. Tourism is developed above all in the spa towns, while both in Padua and in the other parts of the province it may be considered under-developed, aside from the arrival of large numbers ofpilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of ...
s in Padua.
Transportation
Twomotorway
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s cross the territory, one being the A4, the other being the A13; Padua has also a highway ring surrounding the city and connecting it to its hinterland. The main railways make almost the same paths of the motorways, going to Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...
, Milan
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or Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
; but there are minor railways going north ( Castelfranco Veneto), north-west ( Bassano del Grappa and Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th cen ...
), south-west (Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
) and south-east (Chioggia
Chioggia (; vec, Cióxa , locally ; la, Clodia) is a coastal town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
Geography
The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the ...
). The main roads follow all those paths.
Sport
Several sports are practiced in the province of Padua. The most popular is football: every village as well as every city parish has its own little team, out of the most important ones playing in the Italian professional or amateur championships; andfutsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.
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is widespread too. Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
and volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
are popular sports too; there are several teams also for basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
and field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...
; water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with t ...
, American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
and baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...
are played too. Among individual sports, cycling
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from tw ...
, athletics, swimming, rowing, tennis
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, fencing
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, golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
, and horseback riding
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are often practiced, as well as martial arts.
Major club teams of the province include:
*Football:
:- Calcio Padova, now playing lega Pro, won 1 Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Serie C ( it, Serie C Italian Cup), formerly named Coppa Italia Lega Pro, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie C in Italian football first held in 1972.
Format
There are a total of six rounds in the ...
;
:- A.S. Cittadella, Serie B
The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...
;
:- A.C. Este, Serie D
The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...
;
:- Luparense San Paolo F.C.
Vigontina San Paolo F.C. is an Italian association football team of the city of Vigonza and Padova, Veneto. It currently plays in Promozione.
History San Paolo Padova
The club was founded in 2010 after the merger with ''A.S. San Paolo'' (fou ...
, Serie D
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;
:- Monselice Calcio 1926
A.S.D. Nuovo Monselice Calcio (formerly Monselice Calcio 1926) is an Italian association football club in Monselice in the Province of Padua. They have played in Serie C2 and Serie D, but now play in the Prima Categoria.
References
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, Eccellenza Veneto, played up to Serie C
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The unification of the Lega ...
;
:- Unione Sportiva Luparense, Promozione, played up to Serie C
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The unification of the Lega ...
;
:- A.S. Petrarca Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Petrarca Calcio was an Italian football club based in Padua, Veneto. The club was formed in 1910. The team's colors were black and white. They have played at the first level before the single table was instated.
History
Toge ...
, Seconda Categoria, played up to Prima Divisione
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;
:- Ženský Padova, Serie B
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, women's football;
:- no more existing: Gamma 3 Padova won 2 times the championship and 1 the Coppa Italia.
*Futsal:
:- Luparense Calcio a 5, Serie A1, won 3 times the championship, 2 the Coppa Italia and 3 Supercoppa;
:- Petrarca Calcio a 5, Serie B
The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...
.
*Rugby union:
:- Petrarca Rugby, Top12, won 12 times the championship (last time 2011) and 2 times the Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity ...
;
:- Roccia Rugby Roccia may refer to:
* , settlement in Italy
* ''Roccia'', subgenus of moths in the genus ''Jordanita
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Selected species
* Subgenus ''Roccia'' Alberti, 1954
** ''Jordanita budensis'' (Spe ...
, Serie A
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;
:- CUS Padova Rugby, Serie B
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;
:- Valsugana Rugby
The Valsugana ( it, Valsugana, german: Suganertal) or Sugana Valley is one of the most important valleys in the autonomous province of Trentino in Northern Italy. Leading into the Alps' foothills, an important main north-south Roman road, the Vi ...
, men's rugby Serie C
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The unification of the Lega ...
, women's rugby Serie A
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;
:- Ercole Monselice The male first name Ercole, Italian version of Hercules, can refer to:
People
* Ercole (name), list of people with the name
House of D'Este
*Ercole I d'Este (1431–1505), Duke of Ferrara
*Ercole II d'Este (1508–1559), Duke of Ferrara, Modena a ...
, Serie C
The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C.
The unification of the Lega ...
;
:- no more existing: Fiamme Oro Padova, won 5 times the championship and 4 times the Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity ...
.
*Volleyball:
:- Pallavolo Padova
Former Antonveneta Padova is a professional volleyball team of
Pallavolo Padova (until 1999 Petrarca Volley, until 2009 Sempre Volley), based in Padua, Italy. It plays in Italian Volleyball League. Since 2009 it is named Pallavolo Padova and it pl ...
, Serie A1, won 1 CEV Cup
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Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed ...
;
:- Silvolley Trebaseleghe, Serie B1;
:- Megius Volley Club Padova, women's volleyball Serie C.
*Water Polo:
:- Plebiscito Padova, men's Serie A2, women's Serie A1.
*Field Hockey:
:- CUS Padova Hockey CUS may refer to:
* Cambridge Union Society
* Canadian Union of Students
* Critical university studies
* Catholic University School
* Chicago Union Station
* Commonwealth of Unrecognized States
* Concordia University System
* Confederation of Labour ...
, men's Serie A1, women's Serie A2.
*Basketball:
:- Gattamelata Albignasego, Serie B Dilettanti
Serie B Basket is the third-tier men's basketball league in Italy.
Format
Teams are divided into four groups by geographical contiguity. Promoted teams gain access to the second-tier Serie A2 Basket, while relegated teams get demoted to play in ...
.
*American Football:
:- Saints Padova
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, Campionato A2 LENAF.
*Baseball:
:- Padova Baseball
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
, Serie A federale. (www.padovabaseball.com )
Main municipalities
The main ''comuni'' by population are ():See also
* Colli Euganei *Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of t ...
* Padua metropolitan area
The Padua metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Padua in Veneto, Italy.
It has been constituted as ''Metropolitan conference of Padua'' (act number 37 of 25 March 2003). It is not by now recognised by the Italian Republic amo ...
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua
* Tangenziale di Padova The GRAP (''Grande Raccordo Anulare di Padova'') is the orbital motorway surrounding Padua, northern Italy. It is also called ''Tangenziale di Padova''.
Usually, it consists of 2 lanes and 1 emergency lane for a dual carriageways. The only excep ...
* Veneto
References
External links
Provincia di Padova homepage (in Italian)
Knowing Padua - June 2010
{{Authority control
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of t ...