Aldabium Palace

Aldabium Palace (istalian: Palazzo Aldabium), originally known as Alqalea Aldhahabiu (Majatran: القلعة), The Golden Citadel, is an complex of historic palaces in Padua. The Palace is a remarkable example of majatran architecture which, despite this, for three centuries was mainly renowned for its large majatran garden, one of the few garden of this kind outside the traditional majatran lands but which in 18th century was destroyed to make place to the Deodato II Baroque-style Palace.

History
The Palace rises on the highest of the hills dominating the city, one of the most ancient settling area discovered in Istalia with signs of agriculture along the local rivers dated back to 3000 - 2500 BCE. When the Augustans conquered the city, they built on the hills behind the city a great fortress over the ancient pagan site, the largest in Istalia, to solidify their power on the Peninsula. The Fortress became later the main residence of the well known late Augustan Overlords Alashad of Milos Domina from where he tried to hold together the several principalities and cities of the Augustan Province of Istalia.

Under the Ahmadi period the overlords nominated by the Ahmadi Caliphate placed his headquarter in Padua and its residence just in the Fortress, which was rebaptized القلعة الذهبي or Alqalea Aldhahabiu meaning The Golden Citadel. The Ahmadi Overlords during the centuries turned the Fortress in a veritrable palace of delight, a masterpiece of palatial majatran architecture and who built also the renowned majatran gardens.

When the Ahmadis were forced to leave Istalia by the local kingdoms and principalities, the Palace followed the fate of the city which in few time was conquered by the Kingdom of Fidelia. The greatest of its Kings, Deodato II, while planning to definitively subjugate all the Peninsula under Fidelia, also to assert his power and the one of the Istalians over the majatran former rulers, built above the Majatran Gardens the Deodato's Palace in Baroque Style which became a summer residence of the King until his death.

It was used as pleasure palace also by the Emirs of Quanzar after the conquest of the peninsula but only for few years and at the end of 19th century the Aldabium Palace was partly in ruins. It remained abandoned for centuries and only under the Union of Quanzari Soviets first recovering intervention was cheduled. The Palace became a Museum few years before the foundation of the First Istalian Empire and remained until today the main turistic site of Padua.