The village of Arquà Petrarca is a small town of medieval origins (about 2000 inhabitants) where the poet Francesco Petrarca lived the last years of his life.
The present town centre maintains its fourteenth-century appearance and thanks to its suggestive aspect it has been awarded the second Prize as “one of Italy’s most beautiful villages”.

Here are some landmarks worth a visit:

• The Petrarca’s house
• Oratory of the Holy Trinity and Loggia dei Vicari, a Church dear to the poet, where he went to pray
• Church of Santa Maria Assunta
• Petrarca’s Fountain and tomb
• Costa Lake (UNESCO site): its presence dates back to the early Bronze Age. This pond has an enormous cultural and landscape importance so much as to have been included in the UNESCO site under the heading “Prehistoric pile-dwelling sites of the Alpine arc”
• Music Foundation Masiero and Centanin: the Foundation  is located in the architectural complex of Villa Centanin and houses a permanent exhibition of ancient pianos of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, vertical- horizontal- and grandpianos, and other unusual forms

For more information visit: http://www.arquapetrarca.com/en/what-to-see/