Explore San Pelagio Castle with this entry ticket. Discover the Museum of Flight, the Flight & Art exhibition, and the historic park with real aircraft and lush gardens.
Visit San Pelagio Castle, a historic residence with medieval origins, marked by its impressive 14th-century tower built by the Da Carrara family, Lords of Padua. Since the 18th century, it has belonged to the Counts Zaborra, who transformed it into an elegant Venetian Villa filled with both private and historic memories.
During World War I, the castle grounds became an airfield. From here, on August 9, 1918, Italian poet and aviator Gabriele D’Annunzio took off for his legendary “Flight over Vienna,” dropping thousands of leaflets calling for peace.
With this admission ticket, visit at your own pace using a paper map and multilingual audio guides. Explore the Museum of Flight inside the castle, which retraces the milestones of humanity’s dream of flight through themed sections on great designers and aviators. Inside, find detailed scale models of balloons, airships, seaplanes, airplanes, and more.
See the Flight & Art exhibition, where the theme of flight is explored through literature, painting, sculpture, music, and crafts.
Stroll through the historic park of over 3 hectares, part of the Great Italian Gardens network, featuring real historic aircraft displayed among its paths and lawns, as well as more than a thousand rose plants, hundreds of wisterias, hydrangeas, oleanders, and two green labyrinths.