The masterpieces of Giotto and the pictorial cycles of the fourteenth century.  Walking through the center of Padua you can see some of the greatest Italian masterpieces.   Urbs picta identifies it as a painted city, and in the summer of 2021 Padova Urbs Picta became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. These are eight sites in the Venetian city where there are the famous frescoes of 1300 due to the great development of painting in this city.

Thanks to the arrival of Giotto called by the Friars Minor Conventual of the Basilica of St. Anthony, throughout the fourteenth century the artists working in Padua reinterpreted the style of the master in an independent and original way.