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Via Scalette, 19
Arquà Petrarca – Padua
Directions to Val Pomaro, restaurant Arquà Petrarca, Padua restaurant
If you choose the motorway:
take the A13 Bologna-Padova and drive out at the “Terme Euganee” exit. Turn left (Padova) and then left again at the main road to Rovigo (SS 16).
At Battaglia Terme turn right following directions to Arquà Petrarca.
Once in Arquà, drive past Piazza Roma and take Via Ventolone, then take Via Scalette on your left.
The restaurant Val Pomaro is on the left, after about 500 metres.
Alternatively, you can take the “Monselice” exit and follow the directions to center of Monselice and then following directions to Arquà Petrarca.
If you come from Padova:
once at the “Bassanello” (southern access to the city) leave Padova on the State Road 16 to Rovigo and keep it for approximately 15 km.
Once at Battaglia Terme turn right following directions to Arquà Petrarca.
Once in Arquà, drive past Piazza Roma and take Via Ventolone, then take Via Scalette on your left.
The restaurant Val Pomaro is on the left, after about 500 metres.
If you come by train or plane:
Arquà Petrarca is easy to reach by train: it is about 15 minutes away from the Montegrotto Terme train station (on the Bologna-Padova railway line) and about 10 minutes away from the Monselice train station (same line, direct bus service).
The nearest airport is Venice Marco Polo, about 50 minutes away.
Arquà Petrarca is a small village, which preserve the unchanged glamour of medieval time and it is considered the pearl of the Euganean Hills. Arquà has been inhabited since the Roman times, and gained more importance when Francesco Petrarca, one of the highest poet of the Italian tongue, wished to spend the last years of his life in the serene quietness of the place. The village still preserve his house and the grave with his mortal remains. The memory of the poet favoured in the successive centuries the spring up of a lot of houses and Venetian villas, which constitute today the artistic and architectural heritage property, worthy to be visited and revisited.
The village, between the Euganean Hills, described as “mine second Elicone”, from the Poet was the place in which Petrarca decided to build for him a modest and decent house, where to spend in peace the last years of his life. The house and the natural environment that surround it, nearly unbroken from the times of the Poet, during centuries attracted thousands of visitors.
The recent interventions, which aimed to the preservation and to the exploitation of the historical and naturalistic property, produced their fruits and today the town of Arquà Petrarca have been admitted to the limited club of the more Attractive Villages of Italy “Borghi più Belli d’Italia “and received the election for the Orange Flag “Bandiera Arancione “of the Italian Touring Club.
More info at:
www.arquapetrarca.com