Padova
History
Padua claims to be the oldest city in north Italy. The legend says it was
founded by the Trojan Antenor, whose relics the commune recognized in a large
stone sarcophagus exhumed in the year 1274. The historical Padua inhabited by
Veneti thrived thanks to its excellent breed of horses and the wool of its sheep. A
Roman municipium since 45 BCE, it became powerful and famous in Roman
times.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, it then passed under the Gothic kings
Odoacer and Theodoric the Great, but during the Gothic War it made submission
to the Greeks in 540. Under the Lombards the city of Padua rose in revolt (601)
against Agilulf, the Lombard king, and was stormed and burned by him. The
Padua of Antiquity was annihilated: the remains of an amphitheater (the Arena)
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