Palazzo Zabarella is located in the historic center of Padua and was built by the Zabarella family as a noble residence. The Palace was built on pre-existing Roman ruins. In the nineteenth century Giacomo Zabarella had the interiors decorated by Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Borsato and Francesco Hayez. Palazzo Zabarella is now the seat of the Bano Foundation, a private body that promotes and enhances the architecture of the building with the creation of international art exhibitions. In fact, since 1997, Palazzo Zabarella has conceived, presented and created a major exhibition event every year. Each of them was the characterizing stage of a long and fascinating dialogue established with the public over time, initially aimed at the rediscovery and enhancement of the Italian movements and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today Palazzo Zabarella continues its research and promotion of Art, expanding its horizons of interest and thus renewing the themes of cultural investigation on the basis of new and important events capable of expressing the traditional quality of its proposals to the public.