Arquà Petrarca

Time seems to stand still here, keeping all the magic of the Middle Ages intact. Indeed, at Arquà one can admire buildings that were already there at the dawn of the year 1000. Chosen as home by Petrararch (the hause, recently restored, holds an exibishition dedicated to the poet) who counted on the patronage of the Carraresi, Arquà developed at the foot of the Castello and Ventolone mountains.

The part of the city at the foot of Mt. Castello offers two religious sites:

The Oratorio della S.S. Trinità and the Chiesa di S. maria Assunta, the curch yard holding the tomb of the great poet. Arquà owes its great fortune to the presence of Petrarch and the magnificence of the Carraresi: the city was elevated to a Vicarship and became the point of reference for aristocracy of Padua and Venice.