Isola Memmia (Padova)

Italy / Veneto / Padova
Prato della Valle (Prà deła Vałe in Venetian) is a 90,000 square meter elliptical square in Padova, Italy. It is the largest square in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe. The square today is a monumental space of extraordinary visual impact, with a green island at the center, l'Isola Memmia, surrounded by a small canal bordered by two rings of statues.

This is believed to be the biggest in Europe, after Red Square in Moscow. In the center is a wide garden surrounded by a ditch, which is lined by 78 statues portraying famous citizens.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prato_della_valle
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Coordinates:   45°23'54"N   11°52'35"E

Comments

  • There is an island in the center of the square known as Isola Memmia. The name comes from the architet Andrea Memmo (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Memmo) that designed the "piazza".
  • Prato della Valle is a nice place, but both this one and the Red Square in Moscow are smaller than an rectangular square in Samara (about 300 m by 500 m = 150,000 square meters) - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=53.1954367&lon=50.1021279&z=16&l=9&m=b.
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