MILL GATE PADUA - MILL BRIDGE PADUA

Centro di Padova - Porta Molino - Mill Gate

The Chronicles state that Padua's first walls were built in 1195 and that the first ring, that which enclosed the city's ancient Roman centre, was completed in 1210.

Following this, with the expansion of the city, two further rings were added in the Communal and Ezzelinian epochs and also in the Carrarese epoch.

It was upon the latter that Venice erected the present wall in the Sixteenth Century.

The Molino (Mill) Gate and bridge are among the best preserved remains of the first city wall, which had no less than nineteen doors and throughfares; the name is derived from the numerous watermills which once floated on the river, and which were demolished at the end of the Nineteenth Century. The bridge has five arches and is of Roman origin.