Walking in the country

Visited at the end of a wonderful day on Mantua, the extraordinary Palazzo del Te deserves a post to itself. It was b...

Mantua from across the Lago Inferiore Today we are on an outing from Padua to see the beautiful city of Mantua. Our first sight of the ...

Porta Altinate I read on the Padua Tourism website that the city has about 11km of walls and as an enthusiast for walled towns I thoug...

The Palazzo della Ragione We are staying a really nice hotel, in a slightly rough area, by the railway station. Our explorations of P...

The Scrovegni Chapel looking towards the west end This is actually our second visit to the Scrovegni Chapel - we briefly visited Padua ...