After the two restful weeks at Lake Garda and in southern Tuscany, from where we undertook day-drives into the surrounding area but always returned home for the night, it was time to pull up our socks so to speak and head for the much anticipated drive into the "Eastern Alps", visiting a number of interesting places and enjoying the scenery.

As an add-on I include as image #10 a picture from the small town of Glorenza/Glurns which we actually visited about 3 weeks later but which fits into the presentation of this area.

On this first part of the drive, we stayed in 3 cities: Padua, Udine and Trieste and visited a number of other places during the drive. I provide below a very brief description of the main places visited in this segment of the drive and add a link for further information in Wikipedia to each town.

PADUA - This picturesque city is known as the home of the University of Padua, one of the oldest universities in the world, founded in 1222, where Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus have taught or studied. It has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padua

BASSANO del GRAPPA - is known for its wooden, 13th-centure Ponte Vecchio bridge spanning the River Brenta. I got to know of this city because about 10 years ago my daughter gave me a 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle depicting this famous bridge and after having spent a good number of hours on this project, I just wanted to go and see this bridge in real life. As a bonus, we discovered a number of nice squares and buildings in this town, which will eventually surface when I work on my full albums. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassano_del_Grappa

UDINE - the historical capital of Friuli, the area has been inhabited since the Neolithic age and it has a number of interesting buildings and an interesting history. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udine

AQUILEIA - another UNESCO World Heritage Site, was one of the world's largest cities with a population of 100,000 in the 2nd century AD and is one of the main archaeological sites of northern Italy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquileia

TRIESTE - is a port city occupying a thin strip of land between the Adriatic coast and Slovenia’s border. Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Slovenian influences are all evident in its layout, which encompasses a medieval old city and a neoclassical Austrian quarter. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste

I hope you will enjoy the variety of locations in this post, actually strewn over a quite large area.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to this series. Please use the link below if you would like to review this intro:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797460-1.html

SUMMER TRIP INFO: Set # 7 provides more information on this second trip of the year to Europe
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797711-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
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