World Postcards & Trekking
MALCESINE
It is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda (the largest in Italy). It is located between the blue lake waters and the massive mountain ridge behind, Monte Baldo.
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Padua hosts the renowned University of Padova, almost 800 years old and famous for having had Galileo Galilei among its lecturers. The most famous of the Paduan churches is the Basilica di Sant'Antonio da Padova. Sant'Antonio, a Doctor of the Church and noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching and expert knowledge of scripture, died here.
VENEZIA
It is an area of the Venetian Lagoon that faces the Doge's Palace and San Marco's Square. The first is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style and it was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Venetian Republic. The second is the principal public square of Venice and it is dominated at its eastern end by the great church of St Mark.