Padova
Padova (locally called Pàdova)1 is a city of 206 thousand2 within its own province located on the Bacchiglione River within the Venetian Plain in the Veneto Region of northeastern Italia.3 The tallest building is the Torre Net (262 feet, 2008).4 UNESCO honors the city's Botanical Gardens, which it cites as being the world's first (1545). The layout is a circle that represents the Earth surrounded by a moat that represents the oceans, and it has long collected rare plants. Fountains were added in the 17th century, monumental entraces in the 18th, masonry greenhouses in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and an English-style garden and hillock in the 19th century.5 James Gregory, a seventeenth century mathematician, studied in Padova and published his Vera quadratura there before returning to Scotland.6
External references
Overview of the botanical garden, Padova city, Padova Province, Veneto Region, Italia
Footnotes
1. Padua in English.
2. 2011 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy, accessed December 25, 2017.
3. Italy in English.
4. Emporis.com, accessed December 26, 2017. The Monte Venda Radio Tower reaches 466 feet and the Padova Communications Tower rises to 341 feet.
5. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
6. John Stillwell, Mathematics and its History (2nd ed., Springer, 2002).
