I can’t say that I remember much about the town… we arrived in the midst of the World Cup 1998 and were swept into a local pub to watch the match surrounded by screaming Italians only to be swept along a street crowded waving scarves and replete with the celebratory honking of altogether too many mopeds.

It was an amazing experience (particularly for a young American who was completely unaware of the European fervor for football) but I’ll have to go back to Padua to see the town itself.