First Days in Padova

"Padua" is the English spelling, "Padova" the Italian, pronounced with the "v" as a "w."  A truly delightful, remarkabe, charming place.  And talk about roots -- apparently the earliest documented settlement here dates to about 1200 BC.  The people have been super friendly, the architecture is great, and the food glorious.  Through the good work of the University's "International Welcome Office," we found a gorgeous apartment smack-dab in the middle of the ancient city.  Just amazing.

Moira in our light and spacious bedroom.

The study.

 The apartment was for some years owned by Professoro Rosino, and Astronomer at the university.  It now belongs to his grandson (and Engineer).

The living room.  The furniture is quite quaint -- very low funny little chairs that aren't exactly comfortable.  But there's an elegance, and the views are great!

We are a very short walk to the Pallazzio della Regione, which is a large central hall with large piazzas on both of its long slides.  Piazza del Erbe is routinely filled with dozens of fruit and vegetable stalls.  Mostly, stalls offer either fruits or vegetables, not both (with certain exceptions; e.g., tomotatoes are with vegetables, and both fruit-stands and vegetable stands have certain fruits such as oranges and figs). 

A bit of parm and an eggplant and tomato salad, one of the first things we prepared in our small but functional kitchen.