The sixteenth-century palaces
Palazzo Selvatico Luzzatto Dina
Via del Vescovado, 30 – Padova
Since the fifteenth century, the building has been the main residence of the Selvatico family, to whom we owe, over the centuries, the accommodation. In the numerous rooms of the noble residence you can still appreciate the remains of the sumptuous stucco and fresco ornamentation made on several occasions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Since 1989 it has belonged to the University as a bequest of the last heir of the Luzzatto Dina family.
Palazzo Mocenigo Belloni Battagia (later Casa della Studentessa)
Via Sant'Eufemia, 3/4 – Padova
The complex includes a sixteenth-century palace, several times enlarged and remodeled, and a building designed for the University of Padua by the architect Giulio Brunetta in the second half of the twentieth century.
Used as a university girls' college, the building was closed to the public after the 2012 earthquake. In the historic building you can still see an interesting cycle of frescoes attributed to important craftsmen of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Palazzo del Capitanio and Sala delle Edicole
Piazza Capitaniato 3 – Padova
Already the campus of one of the two Venetian regents in the city, the palace is spread over the area of the ancient Reggia dei Carraresi. Deeply renovated at the beginning of the seventeenth century, with the fall of the Serenissima it passed into the hands of various institutions that fragmented it, until in 1960 it was partly sold to the University, which destined it as the campus of the then Faculty of Magisterium.
Vestiges of its ancient splendour remain in particular on the upper floor, in one of the rooms of the current library with a painted frieze and Sansovina ceiling, and in the majestic Sala delle Edicole, frescoed in 1607 by Gaspare Giona.
Palazzo Michiel Contarini
Via San Massimo, 33 – Padova
A sixteenth-century palace of the brothers Giovanni Alvise and Fantin Michiel, it has been attributed to Andrea Moroni, an architect who was very active in the city at the time. After several changes of ownership, in 1875 it was purchased by the Municipality, while a century later it came to the University, which used it as a college. In the portico, frescoes dating back to the late sixteenth century.
Palazzo Sala
Via S. Francesco, 13 – Padova
Sixteenth-century residence of the Sala, a noble Paduan family of Germanic origin, it has undergone over the last two centuries a series of radical transformations linked to its different uses: at the end of the nineteenth century Pietro Selvatico School of Drawing, then the campus of ENPAS and since 1966 Palazzo dell'Università.
The façade is interesting, with heterogeneous plastic elements, in which lexical choices of various geographical origins and different artistic levels are condensed. Inside it preserves an important fresco frieze, covered from view by false ceilings.