Padua

Padua

Elegant and spiritual

The city of rivers and canels

I wondered if my Nonna Stella and Nonno Attilio walking in the same streets as I received a blessing and pondered at Donatello's black Madonna and child at the Basilica de San Antonio

A place of pilgrimage

I watched an old man ride a bike

I wondered if my Nonna nought bread at the same place and how lovely this city is

I drank the freshly squeezed pomegranate juice as I walked past Cafe de Petrocci

A cafe without doors

Open all night for thinkers and anyone interested in conversations about life and the stars

A place students uprose against fascism and where Galileo Galilei may have spoken with Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman to get a philosophy degree

I bought rosary beads whilst passing by the orphans hospice run by Benedictine monks

Beautiful you have been

Padua