Discover Padua’s largest monument
MURA VIVE, a total immersion in the history of Padua’s walls, with the protagonists stepping out from the walls of gates and bastions to accompany you through events, episodes, and a few legends from a history spanning five centuries.
Mura Vive, an 11-kilometre-long experience.
MURA VIVE is a multimedia museum, offering different formats and technologies to help you discover Padua’s walls in every detail, accompany you on your visit, and help you see them with new eyes.
MURA VIVE is also distributed museum, organised into several “sites” — seven once the project is completed — housed in gates and bastions along the eleven kilometres of Padua’s Renaissance bastioned walls, the most extensive circuit to have survived almost in its entirety.
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MURA VIVE offers three different visiting modes, which complement and complete one another and are intended to be used in sequence at each site.
Environmental narrative installations, theatrical in conception, in which the protagonists of the events connected with that specific place — or with the walls and the city of Padua in general — will tell you their stories, each from their own point of view, interacting with you and, in some cases, making you feel part of the story yourself.
Educational stations, with short in-depth videos on specific historical or architectural aspects, making extensive use of three-dimensional renderings and animation.
A mobile app,, with content downloadable at each site, which will guide you through the monument, describing every detail, or take you on a journey through time by means of historical iconography, 3D reconstructions and augmented reality.
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Extended accessibility
MURA VIVE is accessible to international visitors thanks to the English version, available as an audio dub through headphones.
MURA VIVE is accessible to deaf visitors thanks to Italian Sign Language interpretation and written texts available on dedicated tablets.
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Continuously evolving
MURA VIVE is a project undergoing gradual expansion.
The first four sites active since September 2021 were joined by a fifth in April 2022, and two more are planned once restoration work on the bastions that will host them has been completed.
Others may be added later. At the same time, the mobile app will be updated and may also be further developed until it covers the entire 11-kilometre circuit.
The cover image is a photograph of Porta Liviana (1920s), from the archives of the Comitato Mura. The 3D rendering of Porta Codalunga in 1859 was created as part of the 2017–2018 PAMU project.
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