In Padua near the trade fair, the Best Western Hotel Biri located in Padua, Italy, is a practical hotel with comfortable rooms, free Wi-Fi, a restaurant, a bar and a pizzeria, meeting rooms, a gym, and a panoramic roof terrace with a solarium.
Private parking and the Padova Est motorway exit make it easy to reach by car, and the great domed basilica of Saint Anthony lies about 2 kilometers away. The historic old centre and its squares are a short ride off.
Padua is one of northern Italy's oldest university cities, a lively place of frescoes, domes and arcaded streets. Pilgrims from across the world fill the many-domed Basilica of Saint Anthony, Giotto's luminous frescoes glow in the Scrovegni Chapel, and the vast Prato della Valle, one of Europe's largest squares, rings with cafes, students and a Saturday market. Frequent fast trains reach Venice and its lagoon in well under an hour.