Piazza dei Signori, Padua

The square arose in the fourteenth century with the demolition of an old district that stretched in front of the church of San Clemente, promoted by Ubertino from Carrara.

The arrival of Venetians rule restored the square as the fifth main civic area: for tournament play, the rides, the battles, the courtship, concerts and music festivals.

On May 9, 1848, the priest Alexander Gavazzi renamed the square, "Piazza Pius IX", to underscore anti-Austrian sentiment.

The medieval square was paved with brick laid in a herring-bone pattern, this was replaced in the eighteenth century by slabs of Euganean trachyte.

On the square to the left column Marciana (mid-eighteenth century,) is a monument composed of pieces from the church of San Marco.

The flag flagpole has a marble base dating back to the sixteenth century with decorations in high relief.

This has stone floor cooked, serves for the theater of public shows of rides, and tournaments and is surrounded by towering factories and beautiful houses" (Angelo Portenari, Of Happiness of Padua, 1623)