Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

This is the seventh in my series of posts from my family’s trip to Italy with the St. Mary’s of the Lake Choir from Skaneateles, NY. If you’d like to check out the earlier posts, you can find them by clicking these links – PART1, PART2, PART3, PART4, PART5, PART6

Padua (Padova)

Father Bob’s word of the day was belong. He reminded us that we all belong to God and should reach out to people and invite them in to church.

Padua is a city and in the province of Veneto in northern Italy. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area with a population around 214,000

Padua is on the Bacchiglione River, 25 miles west of Venice and has the University of Padua, founded in 1222, where Galileo Galilei was a lecturer.

We were surprised at how picturesque the city is with large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing…