Padua metropolitan area

The Paduan metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Padua in Veneto, Italy.

It has been constituted as Metropolitan conference of Padua[1] (act number 37 of 25 March 2003). Anyway, it is not by now recognised by the Italian Republic among the città metropolitane (metropolitan cities) that will be instituted to replace province.

It can be considered as one of the main parts of the Venetian metropolitan area around Venice.

Metropolitan area

The Paduan metropolitan area in composed by the city of Padua and 15 towns from the Province of Padua, and 1 town from the Province of Venice,[2] for a total of 394.011 inhabitants at 2001 census, on a surface of 375,94 km², as shown in the following table[3] (all data are referred to 2001 census):

Province	Town	Surface (km²)	Population	Veneto
Province of Padua	Padua	92,85	204.870
	Abano Terme	21,57	18.206
	Albignasego	20,99	19.147
	Cadoneghe	12,85	14.755
	Casalserugo	15,52	5.519
	Legnaro	14,89	6.895
	Limena	15,04	6.858
	Maserà di Padova	17,54	7.695
	Mestrino	19,30	8.442
	Noventa Padovana	7,17	8.083
	Ponte San Nicolò	13,50	12.059
	Rubano	14,56	13.671
	Saonara	13,52	8.946
	Selvazzano Dentro	19,58	19.753
	Vigodarzere	19,91	11.702
	Vigonza	33,32	19.458
	Villafranca Padovana	23,83	7.952
Province of Venice	Vigonovo	12,79	8.766[4]
TOTAL (at 2001)[5]		375,94	394.011

References

1. Conferenza metropolitana di Padova
2. Alberghi Vigonovo - Italy Holiday Hotel Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
3. Inhabitant population and buildings in the city of Padua and metropolitan area
4. at 31 December 2004
5. without Vigonovo