Seen from above, Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star: Venice founded it in 1593 as an ideal war machine, a radial fortress-city where every street converges on the hexagon of Piazza Grande. Since 2017 it has been UNESCO-listed among the Venetian defence works.
You visit it on foot: three rings of bastions, monumental gates, countermine tunnels explored with guides. In the evening, the parade ground becomes a drawing room of cafés beneath the Doge's cathedral. A military utopia never taken by force — conquered today only by Sunday cyclists.
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📅 Every year, on 7 October, together with the anniversary of the fortress's founding
Palmanova celebrates Saint Justina of Padua on 7 October, the same day on which, in 1593, the Venetians laid the first stone of the star-shaped fortress built to defend the border from the Habsburgs.
📅 Every year, on 7 October
On 7 October Palmanova celebrates its patron Saint Justina of Padua; the same day marks the anniversary of the founding of the Fortress, the star-shaped fortified town on which Palmanova stands.
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