The best city hikes and walks around Colli Euganei

The Public Gardens of Este, located in the heart of the town at the foot of the Euganean Hills, offer a fascinating green oasis enclosed within the imposing fourteenth-century walls of the Carrarese Castle. This historic park combines the solemnity of medieval architecture, with its towers and ramparts, with rich vegetation characterized by large lawns and majestic centuries-old trees, including imposing Lebanon cedars. Within the same area stands Palazzo Mocenigo, home to the National Atestino Museum, creating a perfect blend of nature, archaeology, and history. The garden has always been the ideal meeting place for relaxing walks, cultural events, and city flower shows, offering evocative views and a serene atmosphere in every season.

Monselice Castle is a complex of buildings composed of four main nuclei, plus a fortress, all built and renovated between the 11th and 16th centuries. The oldest part, on the right as you enter the main doorway into the Corte Grande, is the Castelletto, with the adjoining Romanesque house, built between the 11th and 12th centuries. On the left stands the massive 13th-century Ezzelino Tower. In the center, Palazzo Marcello was built in the 15th century as a connecting nucleus between the two existing buildings. At the top of the hill stands a fortress built by Ezzelino III da Romano on the orders of Emperor Frederick II of Swabia. Finally, the castle library, located on the large esplanade in front of the Ezzelino Tower, was created in a pre-existing building from the late 16th century.

Beautiful Garden

11th-century church with a leaning steeple...

beautiful castle with large park and well maintained

Place of worship and prayer Via del Santuario, 35043 Monselice PD https://duomomonselice.com/duomo-vecchio/

Piazza Maggiore is the beating heart of this vibrant historic city. It strikes for the elegance of its Renaissance buildings with clean lines and soft colors.

The Sanctuary of S. Giorgio The Sanctuary of the Seven Churches in Monselice is certainly the most important religious monumental complex in the city. The evocative votive path, located on the slopes of the Colle della Rocca, is made up of six chapels that follow one another along the sacred road that climbs up to the square in front of Villa Duodo, where the last Church dedicated to San Giorgio is located, the largest of the seven, the culmination and arrival point of the Jubilee Route of the Seven Churches. The church of San Giorgio, also called the church of the Saints, was originally little larger than a room, perhaps it was used as a family chapel. In 1651, the bodies of three martyrs and numerous relics were brought from Rome. The arrival of new conspicuous relics in 1713 induced the Duodo family to add a real sanctuary next to the church in which to preserve the bodies of the Saints and display them to pilgrims.