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| Well, we started at the juice shop we found yesterday... |
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| Fixing the street the old fashioned way |
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| See that yellow building by the bridge - the best disguised McDonald's I've ever seen. |
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| A really big statue |
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| The Church of St. Nicholas outside... |
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| and inside. |
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| A rolling gelato cart Rachel was tempted to take |
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| A rare tree-lined street that reminded us of South Pas |
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| The Duomo - outside... |
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| and the crypt. |
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| "Spaghetti" gelato |
Perhaps the thing we were most surprised to come across was the Fontana delle Tette (which I don't think I need to translate for you). Turns out it is a very important part of Treviso history...it was built in the mid 1500s to celebrate the end of a severe drought and for the next two hundred years (until the fall of the Republic) every time a new mayor was elected the fountain would spout red wine from one breast and white from the other, allowing residents to drink freely for three days!
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| I had much more embarrassing photo options...believe me! |
On Friday, we weren't nearly so adventurous. Though I went to the grocery store in the morning and to get some lunch in the afternoon, the girls were totally happy to read, paint, watch Olympics (Italy is quite good in fencing), and play Nancy Drew computer games all day long. We didn't venture out as a group until after 8 pm when Jim came home. We went back to Da Pino for dinner and to get Venchi gelato (the Ciacco Coco is to die for). On the way to dinner, we walked some new paths as well and tried to capture the beauty of this city at night. We also found the original Tette statue behind glass on display in the main plaza.
Love the wine-spouting boob statue!
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