This week we suggest Padova as a city worth seeing and a good one for a home exchange.

Not far from Venice, Padova has its own value and beauty. Full of cheerful students during the academic year (Padova Universities have more than 60.000 students at the moment) and calmer during the hot summer, Padova is full of things to do, to see and to live, as you can see in a post by a traveller’s blog.

The beautiful squares (Piazza delle Erbe e Piazza della Frutta) in the city centre, give access to the Palazzo della Ragione. Here, you can try a typical drink called “spritz”. If you go on a normal day during the year, you can see hundreds of students and young people having their ritual spritz, chatting, singing, having fun, after a day of lessons at university.

But you can also find more serious stuff as the Cappella degli Scrovegni (with Giotto’s fresco paintings),the Duomo and the famous huge square “Prato della Valle”.

What else? Well, discover it by yourself! Why not planning a home exchange with a “padovano” (a citizen from Padova)? It’s worth giving it a try!

And any people-from-Padova  comments that may tempt  to pay a visit there are welcome!

Cheers.