On the Bacchiglione river at Selvazzano Dentro, abbot Melchiorre Cesarotti — whose Ossian translation bewitched a whole European generation, Foscolo included — laid out his celebrated garden in the late eighteenth century, a gathering place for men of letters. It remains the most illustrious chapter of this Paduan town.
The municipality of 22,145 now works as a hinge between Padua, eight kilometres away, and the first rises of the Euganean Hills. The river banks, with their cycling routes toward the city of Saint Anthony, carry on that cultivated taste for landscape in the most practical way.
Near Selvazzano Dentro
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
