The Eremitani City Museum (Museo Civico degli Eremitani – position 27 on the map) displays a rich collection of roman and pre-roman finds in what used to be the Augustinian Hermits monastery, along with etruscan and paleochristian ones, and precious works of art dated back between the 14th and the 18th century.
Amongst them, the Crucifix by Giotto and the Angels by Guariento originally created for the adjacent Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni – map: 26) one of the greatest artworks of all times. Completely frescoed by Giotto between 1303 and 1305 is now perfectly preserved thanks to very complex restoration and the beauties it offers to visitors worth alone the trip to Padova, illustrates the life of Mary, the life of Jesus, the Passion of Jesus and the Last Judgement that scared and impressed viewer for centuries, for its realism. With his two stayings in town Giotto marked the rebirth of art in town after the difficult medieval times.
Frescoes remained throughout centuries a tradition of Padova, that can now feature a treasure rarely comparable.
The Eremitani Church (Chiesa degli Eremitani – position 28 on the map) keeps 14th century’s frescoes by Guariento and Altichieri da Zevio; the juvenile masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna, frescoed around 1448-1457 and badly damaged by Allies’bombing in 1944, can still be admired in the Ovetari chapel. The church is also remarkable for its wonderful wooden ceiling and many monumental tombs.
Opposite to Eremitani’s Church, on the other side of Corso Garibaldi,Zuckermann Palace Palazzo Zuckermann with the Museo Bottacin and the Museum of Applied Arts and the adjacent University Scientific Museums, which are housed inside Palazzo Cavalli.
