Padua is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest city to have the highest murder rate in it's country.
=== Emergence of the Signoria ===Jacopo da Carrara was elected lord (signore) of Padua in 1318, at that point the city was home to 40,000 people
=== Austrian rule ===In 1797 the Venetian Republic came to an end with the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Padua, like much of the Veneto region, was ceded to the Habsburgs

