You can find information on restaurants, museums, artistic and historical places to be visited in Padua via the Padua interactive map.
Venice can be easily reached by train. There are several trains per hour leaving from Padua and reaching Venice railway station (Venezia Santa Lucia) in about 25-50 minutes depending on the train type (see Trenitalia website to check the timetable and buy tickets). Beware that in the evening last departures from Venice are around 22:30 and 00:30 and that, especially during the last days of the Carneval, these trains could be crowded.
The workshop is held during Carneval time: Venice carneval is particularly famous and hosts events through the city, in the central San Marco square (about 40-50 minutes walking distance from the railway station) as well as in Venice streets and squares.
.jpg)
Other nice cities close to Padua are Verona, with its famous Arena, easily reachable with 1-hour train trip
and Mantua (~1.5 hours by car or train), a small city with important architectural treasures and artifacts of Italian Renaissance.
