Back to our trip mainly focused on Venice and the islands surrounding it, we thought that we will dedicate the last day from our city break to explore Treviso, the place were we had our accomodation.
Firstly, we thought that one day was going to be enough to explore that part of Italy based on the views we got to observe daily on our way to the train station. However, after our last day of exploring it, we figured out that it deserved a lot more and we sort of regreted not being able to take more walks on its streets.
Since why, the single day we could dedicate exploring it turned into a really exhausting one, rushing from one place to another with the thought that we could recover some of the hours we could dedicate from the rest of the days to take at least an evening walk before heading to the place we called home for 4 days.
Sadly, the weather was not in our favor which came as an unpleasant surprise judging on the blue sky and sunny days we enjoyed while exploring Venice and its islands, but we couldn't let this aspect ruin our last chance to explore Treviso.
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Hence why, from our uncertain path followed, we reached a location that seemed a little bit more crowded from what we've seen so far, meeting lots of people running from one place to another which got us the feeling of being in the center of the town or in a square.
The 2nd option was what it concluded since Palazzo dei Trecento is placed in Piazza dei Signori, yet a location pretty important in town.
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Before figuring out whether we could visit the palace or not, a statue caught my attention which is known as The Independence Monument that was raised in the memory of those who died during the World War II, whose names can also be found at the bottom of the palace on one of the walls.
Back in my country, this kind of attributes are brought into nicely arranged cemeteries that are entirely dedicated to soldiers, but it was nice seeing it in a different way than I am used in my country.
Anyway, Palazzo dei Trecento is what represents the point of interest for today's post, and it surely is a large building that catches a lot of attention even from the locals who are passing by in a normal day.
From what I could figure out while walking arround it, this one covers a pretty large surface and even if the most facile access seemed like being from the top door that we could reach from walking on the exterior stairs.
In fact, we didn't have much access to the internet so a real-time research was not available, but once we got home and got some time to search about it, we found out that the access within could be make from a different way and from the ground floor of the palace.
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Even if we had the unpleasant surprise to find door locked, we still enjoyed our walk up there especially that we got a quick view on what we could find inside the palace if succeeding on making our way in, but also got a lovely view over the square that seemed so beautiful even if accompanied by the grumpy weather.
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Either way, none of what we can see in the 21st century could be possible if the palace wouldn't be the subject of various renovations as it dates since the 13th century and it's been the major victim during WW2 when Allied planes bombed and nearly destroyed Palazzo dei Trecento.
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Honestly, even if I wish I could check the inside as well, I really feel blessed to get to stare at such an imposing building that is an important piece of Treviso's history so many centuries later since it was raised.
But the building is not the single thing resisting in front of the history challenges, but also some remains of frescoes painted between 14th and 16th centuries by local artists depicting coat of arms and themes of civil power and justice, all of them being safely stored on one of its floors.
**Palazzo dei Trecento ** is located in the Piazza dei Signori that is part of the northern side of the town, on Piazza Indipendenza, 31100 Treviso TV, Italy and we reached it by walking but some of the buses stopping nearby are 1, 7, 6, 21, 4, 9, 11, 55.
Other places I've seen during my stay in Treviso:
more coming soon...
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[//]:# ([//]:# (!worldmappin 45.66573 lat 12.24601 long A very scenic place for both locals and tourists d3scr))
