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The Castle MUSEO NAZIONALE ATESTINO Realized with A town with very remote origins Via G. Negri, 9/c - tel. 39+0429.2085 the contribution of Opening time: from 09.00 a.m till 08.00 p.m. yearly open The present building dates back (closed on Christmas, January 1st and May 1st) Este, a town with very remote origins, rises marquis, began one of the to the fifth decade of the XIV century CASTLE’S PUBLIC GARDENS in the province of Padua in the southern area principal Italian dynasties and was erected by Ubertino da Via G. Negri - Free entrance of the Euganei Hills. It is 30 km from Padua, and moved their capital Summer opening time (April 1st - September 30th): Carrara on the ruins of the previous from 08.00 a.m. till 11.00 p.m. 60 from Venice and Bologna and only 8 from to Ferrara (1239). fortification, destroyed in 1249 by Winter opening time (October 1st - March 31st): the municipality of Monselice, and can be reached Conquered twice from 09.00 a.m till 05.00 p.m. the troops of Ezzelino da Romano. by way of the A13, taking the Monselice exit, by Ezzelino da Romano, The oldest nucleus, dating back DUOMO ABBAZIALE DI S. TECLA or else the S.S. road n. 16 Padua-Rovigo and S.R. who had the Castle Piazza S. Tecla - tel. 39+0429.2009 to the period of the great invasions, Opening time: from 10.00 till 12.00 a.m. and from 04.00 n. 10 Padana Inferiore. The town of Este owes destroyed (1238 and consists of a circle of walls with till 06.00 p.m. How to reach Este: its toponym to the river Adige, Athesis 1249), in the XIV century a little church and a large central BASILICA DI S. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE for the Romans, that flowed through this territory Este was disputed by the building. Starting from the XI Via Principe Umberto, 55 - tel. 39+0429.2151 TREVISO until 589, when the famous break mentioned Scaligeri, the Carraresi Opening time: from 10.00 till 12.00 a.m. and from 04.00 AIRPORT century the original structure was till 06.00 p.m. by Paolo Diacono moved its course a few and the Visconti until it incorporated within a series of MOTORWAY EXITS kilometres to the south. Romanization of Veneto surrendered spontaneously walls and residential buildings until, Useful numbers: was a peaceful process: the Veneti allied to Venice in 1405, when towards the mid-XIII century, the Town Hall: tel. 39+0429.617511 TOWNS themselves with the Romans against the Gauls, and a long period of peace began. During the Venetian Local Police: tel. 39+0429.2688 marquis of Este restored the castle Tourist Office: tel. 39+0429.600462 EUGANEAN HILLS obtained the status of Roman colonia. Este managed domination the town went through a period Civic Library: tel. 39+0429.619044 as a defence structure. VENEZIA to maintain administrative autonomy until the of economic wealth and demographic growth, The construction has a square base, Information: AIRPORT end of the Republican Age, but the political unfortunately interrupted by the dramatic plague surrounded by a sturdy wall spaced centralization during the Imperial Age did not allow epidemic in 1630. The administrative reorganization IAT Este DIRECTION TRIESTE by twelve little towers. as a public garden. The Castle was used for defence Via Guido Negri, 9/a MOTORWAY A4 for maintenance of former magistracies. After ordered by Napoleon and the affirmation of a middle The keep is on the hill, in a position of dominance purposes until the town’s spontaneous surrender Tel.: 39+0429.600462 DIRECTION MILANO the fall of the Roman Empire, the town of Este suffered class gave new impulse to the municipality, Fax: 39+0429.611105 AY A4 over the entire town; it culminates in a square to the Republic of Venice, when the entire structure www.comune.este.pd.it VERONA MOTORW a disastrous attack by the troops of Attila, and was and initiatives of remarkable interest were promoted, tower and has a small castle or Fort of Assistance was sold to the Mocenigo family: they were e-mail: [email protected] AIRPORT reduced to a simple country village. After the tenth such as the setting up of the National Museum to the north-east, that originally constituted the the ones who had the Palazzetto built in the late century, the town arose again grouped around the of Este and the opening of public schools. Este’s entrance to the fortress. sixteenth-century, where the National Museum castle of its feudal lord Azzo, later Azzo II d’Este. development continued even after it was annexed The area within the walls is now equipped of Este is now located. Main events: The Lords of Este, after having obtained the title of to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866.

• 3rd Sunday of each month: Antiques and Second-hand market • Wednesdays and saturdays: Weekly market • April: Este in Fiore - Exhibition-market of flowers • April: At the Court of the Estensi

Historic medieval re-enactment MOTORWAY A13 • May: Atestiadi - Sports festival • Late May-Early June: Este Fair. DIRECTION BOLOGNA • Summer: Shows and Events • September: International Chamber Music Festival ste. • October: European Festival European Cities in Este • December: Christmas Exhibition Market E A town with very

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Town Hall in 1717. The interior is in the form of a latin cross; zoomorphic figures and scenes from daily life. The deep cultural roots of Este are reflected in the Overlooking piazza Maggiore, the Town Hall among the works of art conserved here the canvas The fourth hall collects the ex-votives from Este’s strong attraction that this town has always had is an elegant building with loggias dating back of "Sant'Antonio da Padova and Child and other places of cult, the most important of which lay along on poets, writers, artists and men of letters. to the XVII century, recently restored; the balcony Saints" by Zanchi and the valuable marble cornice the course of the Adige and was devoted to Este keeps numberless evidences of the intense above the portico is an eighteenth-century addition. of the miraculous icon are outstanding. the goddess Reitia, a healing divinity. The fifth hall cultural activity which has been characterising exhibits the most recent pre-Roman finds in Veneto. this town for centuries, one has only to think Palazzetto of the Scaligeri Church of San Martino In the sixth hall, the first of the Roman section, of the troubadour poets who met at the court Attested since the XI century, the church On the south side of the square one can see Romanization of the territory is documented through of Azzo VI d’Este in the XIII c., or at the artists of San Martino is the oldest in Este. The building the Palazzetto of the Scaligeri, where now the collection of archaeological, epigraphic and men of letters who gathered at the mansion has a simple and elegant structure, dating back the Reading-Room Society has its headquarters. and linguistic documents. Besides this, of the Venetian nobleman Alvise Cornaro in to the fourteenth-century reconstruction and 1887) and transferred it to In this fourteenth-century gothic building there there are beautiful tomb furnishings with the XVI c., at the great Romantic poets Byron the successive one in the seventeenth century. Palazzo Mocenigo. The museum, is now a library containing fifty thousand volumes. elegant silver jewels and a large amount and Shelley, who lived at Villa Kunkler, at It is basilica-based with a nave and two aisles. was restructured in the early of grey ceramics. the presence of Bruce Chatwin at Villa Albrizzi. eighties and was opened again Prince’s palace The material in the seventh halls consists The building rises on a hill; it was built for Church of Santa Maria to the public in 1984. The tour mainly of public inscriptions naming Stronghold of Ponte di Torre the Contarinis according to a plan by Vincenzo delle Consolazioni or degli Zoccoli winds through eleven halls This sixteenth-century building has a single nave. the people covering determined positions. The stronghold is what remains of the separate forts Scamozzi, who had it given a central base, with starting on the first floor. Below Inside one can admire a Roman mosaic floor The eighth hall is devoted to the Ceramics of Este that, together with the castle and the battlemented a Greek-cross hall. It owes its name to an episode are briefly illustrated the most in the chapel of the Virgin. necropolises, and burial monuments walls, protected Este even before the epoch from its history, that is, when Alvise Contarini, interesting itineraries both in the are presented divided by type (inhumation Este’s ceramics are unique in the world in terms eighteenth-century moulds found in the old factory, of Carrara. Structurally, it consists of a circle of walls during a sojourn in the villa, received pre-Roman section (halls I-V) and Church of the Blessed Virgin or incineration) and form (altars, niches, of make, materials and workmanship, and today of which copies are used today to make bowls, and a square tower, 24 m high. communication of his election as doge. in the Roman one (halls VI-X). of Health slabs, sarcophagi, etc.). In the ninth and are still made by hand. Ceramics production has vases and dishes. In the first hall artefacts are The construction of the church began in 1639 tenth halls the objects exhibited are linked continued more or less without interruption from There are three ways of working with ceramics: Civic tower of the Porta Vecchia and was completed in 1640 because it had collapsed. assembled ranging from The present tower can be dated late-XVII century to domestic and economic activities, prehistoric times to our days, as attested by artefacts with turner’s wheel, at the strainer, filling The building, octagonal, is rich in paintings, the Eneolithic Age (III millennium and rises on the spot of a previous gate. and there are also jewels and objects for conserved in the National Museum of Este, that the moulds with liquid earth (this is a technique commissioned to famous artists, among whom BC) to the Bronze Age and A clock was on it, as attested by the distribution personal hygiene and beauty. The museum give examples of the various levels of evolution used for large objects), or else with presses. Antonio Zanchi, the author of three canvasses of great the very beginning of the Iron of the rooms inside. At a height of eight metres tour ends in the twelfth hall, where the in taste and technique. After the pause during Once ready, the object goes into the oven Abbey Cathedral of Santa Tecla relevance: the Presentation of Mary at the Temple, Age (IX century BC). There are there is a first room containing two blocks objects exhibited are from much more recent epochs, the Middle Ages, manufactory was launched again to become a “biscuit”. When it has been cooked Erected on the ruins of a previous early Christian the Nuptials of the Virgin and the Annunciation. remarkable artefacts in stone and ceramics as well as of trachyte, formerly used as counterweights for basilica, the Cathedral was rebuilt early Middle Ages, Middle Ages and Renaissance, in the eighteenth century, after Europe had abandoned it is ready for decoration. All phases of work many clay vases in various forms made of a reddish the clock; at a height of twelve metres there is in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth and they come from demolished buildings. the ceramics makers in the Orient and turned and decoration are carried out by hand, and for the mixture. The second hall is devoted to the villages of the old room “of poles and attachments”. centuries. Its interior is elliptical, with a large to local manufacturers. decorations only natural colours or oxides are used. Finally, at a height of approx. twenty metres, presbytery; there are many works of art, among the Iron Age, pertaining to the town and its territory; In that period in Este there were already six Among the decorations characteristic of ceramics we find the bell-cell, containing the support which the "Intercession by Saint Tecla" there are collections of fibulas in bronze Visiting hours, didactical material perfectly operative manufactories that arose at from Este, fruit and vegetables prevail, as the most structure of the bronze bell forged in 1637. by Giambattista Tiepolo stands out. Canvasses and semi-worked iron, tools for weaving, earthen and public services the time of the discovery of the “secret” of oriental classical tradition requires. Once decorated, by the local painter Antonio Zanchi decorate vases. There are a great many examples of kitchen The museum is open daily 9am-8pm. Entrance porcelain. In this respect, there is talk of a real the object is placed in a tub containing glass the parsonage. and eating pottery in this hall. In the third hall, is free for European citizens under 18 and over 65. “craftsmen’s flight” from the manufactory of Nove powder; with this procedure, known by the name devoted to the ancient burial cults, artefacts are Visits can be organized for school groups, by prior di Bassano, a diaspora that led to the diffusion of “crystalline”, the decoration looks shiny and does Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie assembled relating to the principal necropolises in booking. In occasion of the centenary of its institution of working methods and styles in many Italian not come off. At this point the object is ready The Sanctuary was built following testamentary Este in the IX-III centuries BC. The itinerary winds (6 July 1902 - 6 July 2002), the museum has enlarged and foreign towns, but that above all caused a few for the second oven session, while a third the selection of services it offers, in particular in dispositions by Taddeo d'Este, who had a fifteenth- through about seventy tomb furnishings. The most factories to excel in Este, like the Brunello is provided for exclusively for those objects that century Byzantine icon placed there that was the context of communications. Besides the already valuable object here is the bronze statue manufactory, situated at the Girometta bridge, have decorations in gold or a bright red colour. considered miraculous. On top of the first, modest “Benvenuti”, dating back to approximately 600BC; existing informative sources - the little free brochure and some important monographs - sixteen panels in four the Costa-Fabris one, located in Via Settabile, fifteenth-century building, a second one was built it is a cup in beaten and chiselled bronze featuring languages have been created in order to facilitate tours. and the most important, the Franchini one with Main Ceramics Producers in Este: Also in the context of services offered, it is worth headquarters in Borgo Schiavin. Franchini was The National Museum of Este remembering the system of audio-guides, that allow one a goldsmith and engraver, and he decided to found • Antica Ceramica d’Este - via Rovigo, 39 - Tel. 0429.3493 The first collection of epigraphs, from Roman times, to listen both inside and outside to useful information, his own factory of earthenware and porcelain, • Ceramica d’Este Arte Più was assembled by the nobleman Giorgio Contarini without being tied to the itinerary. with the collaboration of Jean Pierre Varion, a very via Vicenza, 1 - Baone - Tel. 0429.4258 expert former: this association • Ceramica Euganea in the early seventeenth century; this first collection viale dell’Industria, 13 - Tel. 0429.50352 was gradually enriched with material from tomb Archaeological itinerary gave rise to a production Set up by the Archaeological Superintendency • Ceramiche d’Arte Mary - via Galilei, 19 - Tel. 0429.601059 furnishings discovered in Este in the second half of objects in ceramics • Ceramiche Estensi - via Volta - Tel. 0429.4848 for the Region of Veneto in collaboration with of great artistic value. of the nineteenth century. The nucleus of today’s the Councils for Culture of the Province of Padua and • Ceramiche Marcuzzo - via Monache, 5 - Tel. 0429.602601 • Este Ceramiche Porcellane Museum of Este is owed however to Vincenzo the Municipality of Este, the Itinerary, six kilometres long, In the Museum of via Sabina, 31 - Tel. 0429.2270 - 0429.3064 Fracanzani, magistrate of Este, who in 1834 decided is entirely within the present town’s territory and can be Este, for example, one can admire a “Christ” • Gastone Primon M° Scultore to institute a collection initially called Civic Lapidary covered on foot or by bicycle. Along the entire route piazza Trento, 22 - Tel. 348.1993370 Museum, at first located in the church of St. Francis, sixteen numbered panels illustrate the excavations by Franchini; in • Scuola Bottega della Ceramica di C. Padovan adjacent to the Oratory of Saint Mary. carried out in loco, the material discovered and the showcases of Viale Fiume, 55 - Tel. 347.1087090 This location proved to be inadequate and the State the positions of the various zones in relation the museum there are • Porcellane L’Arte di B.B.M. instituted the National Museum (decree of 1 April to the settlements of pre-Roman and Roman Este. even the original via Volta, 16 - Tel. 0429.602030 ESTE 4ante ENG mod 19-12-2006 12:07 Pagina 5

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