Montagnana is a town and comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

in the province of Padova, in Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

 (northern Italy

Italy

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). It is bounded by other communes of Saletto

Saletto

Saletto is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 70 km southwest of Venice and about 35 km southwest of Padua...

, Megliadino San Fidenzio

Megliadino San Fidenzio

Megliadino San Fidenzio is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region of Veneto, located about 70 km southwest of Venice and about 35 km southwest of Padua...

, Casale di Scodosia

Casale di Scodosia

Casale di Scodosia is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 70 km southwest of Venice and about 40 km southwest of Padua...

, Urbana

Urbana, Italy

Urbana is a comune in the province of Padua, in Veneto region of northern Italy.-External links:*...

, Bevilacqua

Bevilacqua

Bevilacqua is a comune with 1,927 inhabitants in the province of Verona, Italy.- History :The Comune di Bevilacqua began as a settlement of ancient Venetic people on the banks of the Adige River, documented to 589 AD...

, Pojana Maggiore

Pojana Maggiore

Pojana Maggiore is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is the site of Villa Pojana, designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The town has reputation for its agriculture. It is bounded by the other communes of Noventa Vicentina and Montagnana....

 and Noventa Vicentina

Noventa Vicentina

Noventa Vicentina is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is west of SP247 provincial road.The main attraction is the patrician Villa Barbarigo.- Sources :*...

. , the population of Montagnana was 9,530.

Main sights

• The famous medieval walls, are one of the best preserved examples of medieval walls in Europe.
• The Castle of San Zeno, built by Ezzelino III da Romano
  Ezzelino III da Romano
  Ezzelino III da Romano was an Italian feudal lord in the March of Treviso who was a close ally of the emperor Frederick II and ruled Verona, Vicenza and Padua for almost two decades...
  
  . Another castle is the Rocca degli Alberi, built by the Carraresi family in 1360-62.
• The Gothic Cathedral (1431–1502), with late-Renaissance
  Renaissance
  The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
  
   addings. The interior includes a Transfiguration by Paolo Veronese
  Paolo Veronese
  Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...
  
   and fresco of Judith and David, recently attributed to Giorgione
  Giorgione
  Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...
  
  .
• Palazzo Magnavin-Fioratti, in Gothic-Venetian style.
• The Town Hall (1532).

Outside the city is the Villa Pisani

Villa Pisani (Montagnana)

The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy.- Architectural details :It was designed by Andrea Palladio about 1552, for Cardinal Francesco Pisani...

, one of Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture...

's masterworks.

Culture

Two of the 20th century's greatest operatic tenors, Giovanni Martinelli

Giovanni Martinelli

Giovanni Martinelli was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. He was particularly associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well...

 and Aureliano Pertile

Aureliano Pertile

Aureliano Pertile was an Italian lyric-dramatic tenor. He is considered to have been one of the most exciting operatic artists of the inter-war period, and one of the most important tenors of the entire 20th century.- Life and career :Pertile was born in Montagnana, Northern Italy, 18 days after...

, were both born in the town in 1885.

External links

• Official site
• Mapquest - Montagnana