Call Centre: 049.2010020 (operational from Monday to Friday from 09.00 to 19.00, and on Saturday fro 09.00 to 13.00, excluding holidays)

For the visiting terms, costs and other information, go to: http://www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it

SCROVEGNI CHAPEL

Giotto was in Padua working in the Scrovegni Chapel from 1303 to 1305. Enrico Scrovegni, one of the richest merchants of Padua, commissioned the cycle of frescoes. Scrovegni decided to have the chapel painted to restore the family name, which his father Reginald had ruined due to his sins as a moneylender.

Date founded: 1545

Surface area: 21,960 square meters

Latitude: 45° 24' 00" N

Longitude: 11° 52' 54" E

Altitude: 12 m

Rainfall: 850 mm

Cultivated plants: 6000

Data di fondazione: 1545

Opening hours 

April – October:  9.00-13.00 and 15.00-19.00 (every day). November – March: 9.00-13.00 (except holidays)

http://www.ortobotanico.unipd.it

To celebrate the fifth centenary since the death of Andrea Mantegna, the Ministry for Arts and Culture has set up a National Commission, with the most important academics of the first Italian Renaissance period and local boards taking part, which has decided to set up a special unique exhibition for size and spread. A single large exhibition will be set up in each of the towns where the Maestro lived and worked: Padua in the Eremitani Civic Museums, Verona in Palazzo della Gran Guardia, and Mantova in Palazzo Te.

Information:

http://www.andreamantegna2006.it/

Civic Museums, Piazza Eremitani 8
tel. +39 049 82045450 - 51
fax +39 049 8204585
opening hours: from 09.00 – 19.00, all year round.
Closed: every Monday (except holidays), Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve, 1st May

Exhibition theme: Landscapes – Landscapes. There will be seven exhibitions in various locations throughout the city. Work by the artists: Giovanni Chiaromonte, Mario Schifano, Roman Signer, Pino Ninfa, Guido Cecere, Claudio Sabatino, Valeria Magli.

From 6 April to 15 July 2007