Otranto 

Otranto 

Otranto 

Otranto 

Otranto 

the water in Otranto 

the water in Otranto 

Pigeons in the castle in Otranto 

the Castle in Otranto 

Otranto 

Inside the castle in Otranto 

Inside the castle in Otranto 

Inside the castle in Otranto 

inside the castle in Otranto 

The castle in Otranto 

The Duomo in Otranto 

The castle in Otranto 

the Castle in Otranto  

The water in Otranto 

The sea at Otranto 

the beautiful sea at Otranto 

The sea at Otranto 

Otranto 

Trulli, Alberobello 

a trullo, Alberobello 

biggest trullo in Alberobello 

the Duomo in Alberobello 

roof top in Alberobello 

Alberobello 

Alberobello 

a trullo in Alberobello 

trulli 

trulli (cone shaped houses unique to the Puglia region) in Alberobello 

a trullo in Alberobello 

a trullo in Alberobello 

a trullo in Alberobello 

Alberobello 

a cactus in Alberobello (there were lots of them in the area) 

Trulli in Alberobello 

a trullo in Alberobello 

Lecce 

Lecce 

Lecce 

Bell tower, Lecce 

Bell tower and the side of the Duomo, Lecce 

Lecce 

church in Lecce with a nice domed roof that you can't really see in the picture 

Porta Napoli, Lecce 

Porta Napoli, Lecce 

Lecce 

Lecce (it's about to rain really hard in this picture) 

Inside the Palazzo del Governo, Lecce 

Palazzo del Governo, Lecce 

On the Basilica della Santa Croce, Lecce 

On the Basilica della Santa Croce, Lecce 

On the Basilica della Santa Croce, Lecce 

Basilica della Santa Croce, done in Lecce Baroque  

Basilica della Santa Croce, Lecce 

inside Lecce's castle 

inside Lecce's castle, I thought the statue looked cool and kind of creepy 

inside Lecce's castle 

a church in Lecce 

Lecce's Roman arena 

Lecce's Roman arena 

Lecce's Roman arena 

Lecce's Roman arena 

Sant'Oronzo, patron saint of Lecce, on top of a Roman column given to the city by Brindisi in 1666 to thank Sant'Oronzo for helping relieve the plague in Lecce (the matching column, which marked the end of the Appian Way, the old Roman road, is still in Brindisi). 

Lecce 

A hallway of the cloister in Lecce 

Piazza del Duomo, Lecce 

The tower in Piazza del Duomo, Lecce 

The Seminary in Piazza del Duomo, Lecce 

The Palazzo Vescovile in the Piazza del Duomo, Lecce 

the Duomo in Lecce 

the Duomo in Lecce 

Lecce 

A church in Lecce (done in "Lecce barroque" style) 

Archway into the historic center of Lecce 

The Duomo in Ostuni 

Ostuni (we had Italian hot chocolate, which is different than American hot chocolate, at the caffè on the side) 

Ostuni 

Ostuni 

Ostuni 

Ostuni 

Ostuni  

Ostuni ("the White City") 

Ostuni 

Ostuni 

Ostuni (I think it's their town hall) 

Matera at night 

Some kind of place for music in Matera 

The Duomo in Matera 

A store with my name  

Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

Man carving in Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

Caves in Matera 

Caves in Matera 

Caves in Matera, some were rock churches some were peoples homes. 

Me in Matera with the sassi behind me (I don't like the crane though - if I make actual prints of these I may edit out the crane before I have them made). 

Matera 

Matera 

Matera. I liked the bus, which basically says "Let youself be transported". 

Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

The Duomo in Matera 

Matera, the sassi 

Matera 

Matera, the sassi - some of these caves are rock churches (which we wanted to see, but we couldn't figure out how to get to) and some were people's homes up until the 1950s 

Matera, the sassi 

Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

Matera 

Church in Matera 

Me in Matera 

Matera 

me with a a suit of armor in the castle where we had dinner  

Mantagnana 

Mantagnana, one of the walled cities of the Veneto 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

The Duomo in Montagnana 

Piazza Duomo in Mantagnana 

A pigeon in Mantagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

Montagnana 

At the villa 

At the villa 

The Duomo in Montagna 

Inside the villa 

On top of the villa 

A villa by Palladio near Padova 

Bologna 

Fountain of Neptune (Fontana del Nettuno) in Piazza Nettuno in Bologna. 

Church of S. Petronio in Bologna. The tope part was originally supposed to be decorated with marble like the bottom of it, but they ran out of funds and never finished. 

Where they had to stop building the Church of S. Petronio due to either lack of funds or the building of the University of Bologna (the oldest university in Italy, Padova is the second oldest) next door.  

Bologna 

a picture of the towers that I found on the internet to put here since I didn't like the pictures I took of them. In this picture (unlike in my picture) you can seen all of the Torre degli Asinelli (the taller one). We climbed to the top of that one. 

I tried to take a picture of La Torre degli Asinelli and the smaller tower next to it (which is tilted ten feet to the side and because of that no one is allowed up. It was once taller, but a hundred feet or so of it was taken down in the 1600s because it was tilted so much), but it was I couldn't get all of the Torre degli Asinelli in without standing in the street and getting hit by on-coming traffic so this is the best I was able to take. 

View of Bologna from la Torre degli Asinelli 

View of Bologna from la Torre degli Asinelli 

View of Bologna from la Torre degli Asinelli 

View of Bologna from la Torre degli Asinelli 

View from la Torre degli Asinelli of the city of Bologna 

Bologna 

Bologna 

Fountain of Neptune in Bologna 

Bologna 

Palladian villa 

Paladian villa 

Palladian villa 

Palladian villa 

Outside one of the Palladian villas 

View from outside one of the villas. 

Outside one of the villas that Palladio designed just a bit outside the city of Vicenza. 

Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza. Originally I didn't like the fact that the man on the bike got in the way of the pictures, but now I like him there - it adds to the Italy feel since a lot of people here use bikes as their primary means of transportation (although not enough people since there are still problems with smog) 

Statues on top of the Basilica di Palladio 

The Basilica di Paladio, which in reality is not a basilica at all, but rather originally the legal building of the city of Vicenza. Now there are shops along the bottom, but there may still be government things inside (I don't know). 

Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza 

Statues on top of the Pinacoteca in Vicenza 

Teatro Olimpico 

Inside the Teatro Olimpico with a view of the permanent set that Palladio build that plays with perspective.  

Inside the Teatro Olimpico  

Costume from Oedipus Rex in the museum of the Teatro Olimpico 

costumes from the first (?) production of Oedipus Rex at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza 

Near the Teatro Olimpico  

Vicenza 

Vicenza 

buildings in Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza 

Clock tower in Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza 

In Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza. Notice the statue of the winged lion on the left. It's the symbol of Venice and all the cities that were part of the kingdom of Venice had (and probably still have) a statue like this in them (we have one in our Piazza dei Signori in Padova). 

Statue of Palladio (who designed many of the buildings in the city)  

Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza (we have a piazza with the same name in Padova - I think a lot of Italian cities have piazze with this name) with a view of the Basilica di Palladio and the clock tower (which probably has a name of its own, but I don't know it) 

Vicenza - statues on the "Basilica di Palladio" 

Vicenza 

At Pinguino Blu Gellateria in Padova 

In Piazza dei Signori 

On a building in Piazza dei Signori 

in Piazza della Frutta 

Basillica del Santo 

inside Santa Giustina 

Basillica del Santo 

Basillica del Santo 

Basillica del Santo (Saint Anthony) 

family coats of arms inside the Palazzo del Bo 

Caffè Pedrocchi 

Palazzo del Bo 

Caffè Pedrocchi 

Caffè Pedrocchi 

the roof of the Duomo 

at the mercato (the Asiago is good) 

An Eis Cioccolatta at Caffè Pedrocchi 

at the Municipio 

the Basillica del Santo (Saint Anthony) 

a courtyard inside the Basillica del Santo 

where I live  

where I live (I'll put a better picture up eventually since the sun in the corner bothers me) 

it was on a random building I walked by and I liked it 

Statue of Petrarch that I pass everyday walking to school (he had a house just outside of Padova) 

At the mercato 

near the Municipio (I think the tower might be part of the Palazzo della Ragione) 

at the Municipio 

Palazzo del Bo 

inside Santa Giustina 

inside the Basillica of Santa Giustina (which is a very nice - if cold - church so I don't know why it isn't in any of the guide books) 

Basillica del Santo 

Basillica del Santo (Saint Anthony) 

Statue of Saint Anthony at the Basillica del Santo 

statue of Gattamelata (famous warrior whose name means honey-cat) in Piazza del Santo 

a bank 

statue of Gattamelata (a famous warrior whose name means honey-cat) in Piazza del Santo 

Statue on the top of the Municipio 

In Palazzo del Bo, the oldest university building in Padova 

Symbol of Venice in Piazza dei Signori (Padova) 

Roof of the Duomo 

At the Acropolis 

Statues on top of a building 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

View from the Acropolis 

In the Agora 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

Theather of Dionysis 

Theather of Dionysis 

penguin 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

Megan and I at the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

View from the Acropolis 

View from the Acropolis 

in the church in the Agora 

Me hugging the pineapple shaped tree in the Agora 

A church in the Agora 

At the Acropolis 

A type of cake that we ate twice 

a fire escape (all the stairways that we saw in Greece were spiral like this) 

a church 

View of the Acropolis from Plaka 

At the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

I liked the way this looked 

a statue that we passed a couple of times that I liked 

Athens 

our hotel 

At the restuarant where we ate twice 

cute little old church 

Athens 

View of Athens from the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

Me at the Acropolis 

At the Acropolis 

the observatory (I think) 

the view from our hotel 

at a museum 

Castello Sforzesco 

Castello Sforzesco and a cat (there are a lot of cats inside the castle court yard) 

Castello Sforzesco 

Castello Sforzesco 

building 

view from the top of the Duomo 

me at the Duomo 

view from the top of the Duomo 

Duomo 

The Duomo roof - you walk up stairs and can go all the way to the top where it is breath takingly beautiful 

La Scala museum 

at La Scala museum 

In front of the Duomo 

entrance to the Galleria 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. Beautiful architecture, but in reality is a big fancy mall. 

A statue of DaVinci (I think) 

On a random building in Milan 

Inside the Duomo
 

Inside the Duomo 

Inside the Duomo 

Statue in front of the Duomo. I'm sure it has a name, but I don't know it. 

Milan 

the arena 

the arena 

The arena in Verona 

Statue of Juliet. You're suppossed to rub her for luck in love.  

Some one's house in Verona. I want to live in this house.  

market in Verona 

castle/fort in Verona 

random pretty window 

Front of Saint Zeno's Basilica 

Saint Zeno's Basilica 

Saint Zeno's face with a silver mask over it. 

Saint Zeno's tomb. Most people don't get to go down here and take pictures, but since we were such a good tour group the abbot let us go in and take pictures. 

The hand of Saint Zeno, patron saint of Verona