Trip to... (VI)

Padova

Saturday afternoon we finished the tour in Venezia, we took a train and 30 minutes later we arrived in Padova.

Padova with 210.000 inhabitants also belongs to Veneto region. Is the less touristic city we have visit till now but you may know it's Antonio di Padova and it's famous university (founded in 1222) where Galileo, Copernicus or William Harvey had studied or taught.


First image of the city just getting out the train.

Kim is doing her Erasmus in Padova and said it was the worst city she had ever seen. We don't know if it's because we have little expectations but we think it's a nice city. Maybe it helped the fact we arrived in Saturday and there was a nice atmosphere.
We liked it's monuments and narrow streets. The party ambient there remind us (in small scale) Bologna.

We let you with some pictures (from Google, 'cause we arrived by night and ours are not very good) of the best places we visited:

Piazza della Frutta, Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signore respectively. In every square there's a market. Very charming.

Pratto della Valle, 8th biggest square in the world and first of Italy with 90.000 square meters.

Basilica of Saint Antonio di Pàdova. We are the ones that think that seen one church, seen all. This would be an exeption. A pitty that inside you will see the tongue, teeth and the vocal folds of the saint... nasty.

When we finished the night city tour we drank an aperitivo. The typical drink of the Veneto and concretely of Padova is the Spritz: Aperol, prosseco (sparkling wine) and soda with a lemon slice. A little bit bitter but ok.

Drinking Spritz. From left to right: Ramon, Kim, Coralie, Josep, Sarah and Loes. The two new faces are from two German friends of Kim. They nicely let us their room to sleep.

As yesterday, we let you with the alternative pictures of the trip:

There was a laurea party and a lot of giant lizards were on the streets.

Before going to sleep it was cold...

But in the morning it was worst! First picture of frost in Italy.