Piazza della Frutta

Name: Piazza della Frutta
Address: 36, 35100 Padova PD, Italy, Padova, Italia

4.6/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

Contact Piazza della Frutta

Address :	36, 35100 Padova PD, Italy
Phone :	📞 +997
Website :	http://www.padovanet.it/informazione/piazza-dei-frutti
Categories :	Tourist attraction , Historical landmark ,
City :	Padova
Description :	Bustling square known for its fruit-&-vegetable market, 12th-century tower & historic city court.

Best Historical landmark in Italia

D	Discover Places on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Wonderful market with fresh organic fruit and vegetables
T	Talitha on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love all the wall art. Its interesting to see the astrological signs and figure out what it all means. The shops on the bottom floor are interesting for a tourist. Big horse is so huge it's almost scary. Celing is really unique.
H	Hossein Jelveh on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the most well kept and elegant piazzas based on the medieval period in Northern Italy.
r	rodger ricketts on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not only are there many fruit and vegetable stands in the large square, on the parameter there are clothing shops and bars where you can sit and drink a coffee or wine and eat a meal. The atmosphere is very friendly and the place is very clean. Also very near are butcher and fish shops. Lovely area.
N	Nikko on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Perfect place to have a drink and a bite. There are loads of options. Just arrive before 2pm as they all close down for siesta.
n	nicola modolo on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the most beautiful view in Padova. Lively, full of fresh food. A must to go for a tourist if you are looking for the authentic italian experience
R	Rico Testa on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Incredible place full of fruits a vegetable stalls. (Only morning). Look well for the lowest prices. I was looking for fennels and found from 2.6 to 1.5 euro/kg!!
D	Dilaka Fonseka on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It was once called the "Peronio", because they were sold near a column, clogs and boots called in Latin "perones". This Romanesque column, still visible at the entrance to via Breda, is surmounted by a capital at the corners of which are depicted a pumpkin, a palm, a melocotogno, a pear tree. Above the capital there is a parallelepiped in Istrian stone, in which the coat of arms of the city of Padua is depicted, that is, a shield with a cross and St. Prosdocimo, the first bishop of the city. In the square, on the day of the "zobia masa", that is the first Thursday in May, the Fraglia degli "strazzaroli", second-hand dealers and merchants of second-hand goods, put on a show with the greasy tree. The prize consisted of a bag and gloves, which is why it was called "Festa della Borsa". In the lively Piazza della Frutta, fish and game, eggs and poultry, roasted meat such as porchetta and cooked ox's feet, herbs, that is to say vegetables, and finally precious birds such as falcons were sold. Also in this case the two stairways through which one entered the Palazzo della Ragione took their name from the goods exhibited and sold and were thus called Scala delle Erbe and Scala degli Osei. Since the end of the 12th century, the popular fruit and vegetable market is still held here today, with wooden stalls on wheels.