Piazza di San Marco at Venice, and a campanile 270 ft. high. The Basilica, or Palazzo della Ragione, is a fine Gothic building, with two tiers of galleries surrounding it; the lower being Doric, the upper Ionic. It is of the sixteenth century; the work of Palladio. Several of the palaces merit attention.

The Duomo is a Gothic structure, built in 1467. It contains some frescoes and paintings. Some of the sittings of the Council of Trent were held here. The Church of San Lorenzo contains some interesting monuments. The Church of La Santa Corona has some fine paintings, and richly sculptured tombs. The Theatre, by Palladio, is a fine building. The Museum, in the Palazzo Chiericati, contains a good collection of pictures and engravings; a collection of natural history; another of coins, sculptures, &c. A long series of arcades leads up to the sanctuary on the Monte Berico, erected in 1420. The church contains some good paintings. At the foot of the mountain is the Rotonda Capra, or Palladio's Villa, now almost in ruins.

PADUA (153 miles), (Hotels: La Stella d'Oro, Aquila d'Oro), population, 55,000. This is the oldest city in the north of Italy. Its foundation was ascribed by Virgil to Antenor. In 1974 a marble sarcophagus was discovered by some workmen while digging the foundations of a hospital; it contained a skeleton, holding a sword, which bore an inscription, supposed to identify the tomb as that of Antenor. It was removed to the church of San Lorenzo, since destroyed. It now stands beneath a canopy of brick, in front of the palace of the Delegazione Provinciale, near the bridge of San Lorenzo.

One of the most interesting buildings of Padua is the Palazzo della Ragione (1172-1219), extending along one side of the market-place. It is said to have been built on the plan of a palace in India, which the architect, an Augustine friar, named Frate Giovanni, had brought over from that country. The great hall is 267 ft. long, 89 wide, and the same in height. The walls are covered with paintings, in 319 compartments. At one end is the monument of Livy, erroneously supposed to be the Roman historian of that name. In the hall is a large wooden horse intended to serve in some public ceremonial. The Public Archives comprise some very ancient and interesting documents. The Pinacoteca, or Picture Gallery, also in this palace, contains several good paintings. In other parts of the building are a Museum and the Municipal Library, of 10,000 volumes. The Cathedral deserves no particular mention. The Church of Sant Antonio, built in the early part of the fourteenth century, has eight cupolas. The western front has three pointed arches, with a niche containing a statue of the saint; above it is a portico of pointed arches, surmounted by a turret. There are two beautiful octagonal belltowers. The form of the church is a Latin cross. It is 280 ft. long, and 138 ft. wide between the extremities of the transepts, and 116 ft. high. In the north transept is the chapel of the saint. It is illuminated day and night with golden lamps and silver candlesticks and candelabra, and adorned with bas-reliefs. It was commenced in 1500, and finished in 1553. The Chapel of St. Felix, on the other side of the church, has several good frescoes.

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