Padua Cathedral and Baptistery Site Features

The dome of the baptistery

Giusto de' Menabuoi's Paradise, hundreds of figures in concentric circles. Look up first; everything else in the room is secondary to it.

A complete cycle

Unusually for 14th-century fresco, almost nothing here has been lost. What you see is close to what was finished in 1378.

Fina Buzzaccarini's tomb

The patron is buried in the room she commissioned, which is rarer than it sounds.

The unfinished facade

Bare brick where the stone front was to go, and a good illustration of how many Italian churches actually ended up.