Market of Monselice (Padua)

Anciently called “Mons Silicis“, the first archaeological findings of the city of Monselice go back to the Age of the Bronze. The small town in medieval epoch was devastated by the barbarian invasions that characterised the High Middle Ages.

In XIV century the city of Monselice, it was an object of contest and encounters between the politics Cangrande Della Scala and of the Carraresi and it assumes a typically military aspect, of which it keeps substantial marks, so much to be inserted today into the list of the Walled Cities of the Veneto. In 1405 Monselice enters to be part of the territory of the Republic of Venice, and becomes a centre of stay or of residence for patrician families like Marcello, the Duodo, the Dwarfs and the Inhabitants of Pisa.

In 1400s and ‘500 the medieval structure of the city is enriched with Renaissance elements. A long canal, the Bisatto, shapes a ring complete of roads of water around the Euganei Hills. In 1600s the centre is embellished of Baroques elements, whose decorations are in trachite, stone local extracted by quarry. The extrapolation activity has his maximum development in 1700s, like also the working from the gold in cords woven in the thinnest threads (the famous Manin d’Oro). The 800 is a century of remarkable testified industrial development of Monselice, among other things, with the opening of an important spinnery from silk.

Really in the ancient and scenographic historical centre of the city, marked by this particular history, on Monday morning the Week Market of Monselice unwinds from 7:30 to 13:30. The civic centre becomes pedestrian for who want to go shopping, walking between the many coloured stands of different merchandise typology. The market is subdivided in zones: in the immediate closeness of the Ponte della Pescheria (Bridge of the Fish shop), Via Argine Destro (road Right Embankment), there can be find the stands of fruit and vegetables of flowers and fish; in via Dante (Dante’s Road), piazza Mazzini (Mazzini’s square), along the via Zanellato (road Zanellato) and piazza Ossicella (Ossicella’ square), the road in front of to square San Marco (Saint Mark), there are numerous stands of clothes and fancy goods industry for the kitchen. The market of the shoes is positioned along via Matteo Carboni (road Matteo Carboni).

The market, one between the most important of the territory, offers besides the local products of the highest quality.