Palazzo Bo Site Features

The anatomical theatre

1594, the oldest surviving of its kind. Small, steep and startling.

Galileo's lectern

The desk he is said to have taught from, kept in the Aula Magna.

The wall of coats of arms

Centuries of rectors' and students' heraldry painted over every available surface of the old courtyard.

Cornaro Piscopia's statue

A memorial to the first woman in the world to be awarded a university degree, in 1678.