The Corte Lando (or Lando-Correr), better known as Ca’ Lando, in via Aristide Gabelli, is one of the many hidden treasures of the city of Padua. Due to the initiative of Marco Lando, Venetian patrician and apostolic prothonotary, and completed around 1533-34 by his executor, his nephew Pietro Lando, who would be doge in 1539, the complex constitutes a singular example of popular housing, we would say today, equipped with vegetable gardens, vegetable gardens, the prior’s house and its own chapel: almost a proposal for an ideal community, intended to host twelve poor and numerous families.
