Ancient university center, Padua boasts most numerous testimonies of a glorious cultural and artistic past, that render it a goal for tourists from every part of the world. It is today an important economic center. Padova is moreover famous in all the world like the city of Sant' Antonio, the famous portuguese Franciscan, been born in Lisbona, who lived in Padua some years and there he died. The tradition wants that the foundation of Padova goes back to a group of fugees from Troy, guided from Antenore.One of the main centers of the Paleoveneta culture, the ancient Padova rose on the sides of the Brenta river (during the antiquity called Medoacus) that then (probably until the 589) slid in the river bed of channel Bacchiglione.Unfortunately there remains a little of the roman foriod but, to the contrary, there are numerous testimonies of the medieval and of the renaissance foriod tied to the historical center of the city. The heart of Padova is Palace of the Reason built up in the 1222 (with next the palace "Bo" built in 1493, center of the ancient university, with the Ana tomical Theatre, the chair of Galileo Galilei) with the neighbors Public square of the Grass and Public square of Frutta. Basilica of S. Antonio(patron of the city), is an attraction that must be visited,it is a synthesis of various styles (Romanesque, byzantine, gothic and moorish) with the near public square where Donatello’s monument to the Gattamelata is present. Moreover,must be visited the Dome (built up in XVI the century) and the baptistry that conserves inside the important frescoes of Menabuoi. The more important building of the city is sure the Nail head of the Scrovegni where are present the magnificent Giotto’s frescoes realized between 1305 and 1306.