Montagnana Attractions
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The circuit itself is the attraction: two kilometres of brick, twenty-four square open-backed towers — open toward the town, so an enemy who took one gained no shelter from it — and a dry, grassed moat outside. Walking round takes about forty minutes on level ground.
The Rocca degli Alberi to the west is a gate that is really a fortress, with its own courtyard and drawbridge, defensible even if the town fell. The Castello di San Zeno at the eastern gate is older and heavier, with a tall keep.
Inside, the Duomo is Gothic passing into Renaissance and holds a Transfiguration by Paolo Veronese. Immediately outside the Padua gate stands Villa Pisani at Montagnana, built by Palladio around 1552 — an early work, UNESCO-listed, and a quite different building from the far larger Pisani palace at Stra.
