Comune di Cittadella
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Province	Padua (PD)
Mayor	Massimo Bitonci (Liga Veneta-Lega Nord)
Elevation	48 m (157 ft)
Area	36 km² (14 sq mi)
Population (as of 2001)
- Total	18,717
- Density	520/km² (1,347/sq mi)
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	45°39′N, 11°47′E
Gentilic	Cittadellesi
Dialing code	049
Postal code	35013
Frazioni	Ca' Onorai, Facca, Pozzetto, San Donato, Santa Croce Bigolina, Santa Maria
Patron	San Prosdocimo
Website: www.comune.cittadella.pd.it

A view of a section of the Vicenza gate of Cittadella's walls from the outside

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The local soccer club is A.S. Cittadella. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Associazione Sportiva Cittadella is an Italian football club based in Cittadella, Veneto.

Restoration of the Fortified System

Cittadella was erected in 1220, at the time of the wars between the communes, by order of the city of Padua in order to build a fortified outpost that would defend its territory.

It was built in successive stages in a polygonal shape on orthogonal axes through the construction of 32 large and small towers, with the formation of a protective moat and with four drawbridges next to the four entrance gates.

Its walls, 14 to 16 meters tall, were built with the "box masonry": two parallel walls filled with a sturdy core of stones and hot slaked lime totaling a thickness of about 2. 10 meters.

The walls today are all intact except for a stretch destroyed in the 16th century during the Cambrai war, and the skilled detail of the construction are still easily visible. It it as many as seven different construction techniques characterized by the alteration of courses in brick and those in river rocks mixed with brick can be recognized. ^[1]

Rocca di Porta Bassano is one of the most enchanting parts of the fortified complex of Cittadella as it is clear evidence of the defense apparatus of the keep and entrance gates.

The Casa del Capitano (Captain's House) is found inside the Rocca (Fortress), and it is the object of important restoration work that has led to the finding of old frescoes dating to the period of the Carraresi, Malatesta, Sanseverino and Borromeo families. Throughout Italy the rocca of a small town is the high fortifiable stronghold the "rock" beneath or on which the village or town clustered within which They hand down an out-and-out historical account of the events that occurred between 1260 and 1600, almost replacing written documents.

So as to give the town better defense, the walls originally could be traveled over on various levels through communication trenches, partly made of stone though many other stretches were made of wood or were made along the embankments that ran along the entire wall.

The conservatory repairs of the merlons, the part most highly deteriorated by the wear and tear of time, the safekeeping and restoration of the patrol communications trench that winds along the walls at a height of 14 meters, in addition to the restoration, of several points of ascent with the building of the stairs on the breach, the construction of a stairway and glass lift inside the Porta Vicenza Tower, the stairs, the wooden gangway and the glazed entrance roof in the Torresino Church, plus the building of the connection between the Captain's House and the Porta Bassano Tower allows the old routes to be enjoyed, thus offering the visitor a rereading of the walls and the city from preferential points of view never seen before.

Today the patrol communications trench has been restored for 75% of its length and it can be walked along for 3/4. The entire way around will be walkable once the complete restoration will be complete. .

Complete restoration of Cittadella's fortified system will be completed over the next few years with a final restoration of the walls of the northeastern and southeasters sectors and with the conclusion of the works being carried out on the gates and towers.

The Duomo (Cathedral) of Cittadella.

Trivia

The English poet Robert Browning said of Cittadella: "For these walls, I'd give all of London. "

References

1. ^ Valle, Patrizia. (Design architect and director of the restoration works of the fortified system. ) "Cittadella: Walled City" (Pamphlet)