Città Murate del Veneto - MONTAGNANA (Pd)

Montagnana is located in the province of Padua and is part of the association The most beautiful villages in Italy. The origins of Montagnana probably date back to Roman times and after long wars, from 1405 until 1797 the city was part of the Republic of Venice. In addition to the extraordinary fortified complex, the city is appreciated for the urban fabric, made up of streets and buildings built in the Renaissance period and, partly, during the economic recovery of the nineteenth century. The Cathedral (1431-1502) stretches out on the central square, with its imposing late-Gothic forms with Renaissance additions. Inside are exhibited the Transfiguration by Paolo Veronese, three tables by Giovanni Buonconsiglio known as Marescalco (16th century), a large votive canvas of considerable documentary value reproducing the battle of Lepanto (1571). The walls are adorned with refined decorations and frescoes, among which the one of the apsidal basin by Buonconsiglio, and, on the sides of the entrance, the Giuditta and the David, recently attributed to Giorgione, are very remarkable. The elegant Palazzo Valeri and the ancient Monte di Pietà also overlook the square. In via Matteotti stands the Magnavin-Foratti palace, in refined Venetian-Gothic style, which is said to have been the residence of Jacopa, wife of the leader Erasmo da Narni known as Gattamelata. In via Carrarese is the town hall, a work attributed to the Veronese architect Michele Sanmicheli (1538). In via Scaligera there is the late Romanesque church of San Francesco, with the adjacent Clarisse monastery. Immediately outside the town, close to Porta Padova, there is Villa Pisani, one of Palladio's masterpieces. The most famous monuments, however, are made up of the walls, the fortress of the Trees and the castle of San Zeno. The current walls, which constitute one of the most distinguished and best preserved examples of medieval military architecture in Europe, except for the complex of Castel San Zeno and the stretches of walls to the east and west which are older, date back to the mid-fourteenth century, when the Carraresi , lords of Padua, wanted to expand and strengthen this essential strong point of border of the Paduan state against the Verona of the Scaligeri, which dominated the nearby Legnago.A large moat ran around the walls (the current picturesque and green valley) flooded with the water from the Frassine river (border towards the Vicentino area) derived by means of a canal with raised embankments (the Fiumicello) serving as a defensive weld wall along which, on the Paduan side, there was an elevated menagerie for the concentration of troops. All around the Montagnano area were impassable swamps or floodplains in the event of war, so that the walled city was the key to the Paduan border towards the west. The military structure was moreover surrounded by four advanced perimeter fortifications (the bastions), now disappeared, and the two fortresses placed in defense of the two gates were also surrounded by a moat on the city side. The fortress, in its time, was impregnable and, in fact, until the advent of the large guns (16th century), it was never conquered militarily. Wikipedia source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagnana Music by Whitesand - Title: Fallen Kingdom -    • Whitesand - Fallen Kingdom   Title: Wasteland -    • Wasteland - Instrumental Music   Website - https://whitesandcomposer.com/ Support making these tracks -   / whitesand   Buy My Music - https://whitesand.bandcamp.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GXun... Filmed with SONY RX10M3 and DJI Mini 2 in 4K.