Program:
meeting of the participants in the agreed place and departure
for the city of Cittadella.
Arrival in Cittadella and meeting with the guide to Porta
Bassanese. Beginning of the walk along the patrol way,
visit to the walls of
Cittadella to a height of 14 meters in order to admire
the structure of the fortification system. Arrived to
the Malta tower (terrible prison) you will have the possibility
to admire the archaeological museum. Visit to the Dome
and to the eighteenth-century sacristy. Inside of the
bell tower possible visit to the Dome’s museum.
Continuation to Palazzo Pretorio
and the Social Theatre. Short walk in the main street.
Lunch in restaurant with typical menù. |
In the early afternoon visit to the Onara marsh’
park. It is a naturalistic site through the river Tergola
characterized by 4 types of habitat: the narrow channels
of water-drainage, the peaty meadows, humid meadows and
the hydrophilic forests. Thanks
to the temperature of waters, a microclimate has been
created that favours the permanence of many animal species
and the taking root of vegetations pressed elsewhere.
Transfer to Piazzola sul Brenta in order to visit Villa
Contarini. Risen in the sixteenth-century on the foundations
of an ancient castle, it was finished in the seventeenth-century
by the
Serenissima’s proxy. Visit to Palazzo Nobile, the
gardens, the channels that encircle the villa and the
public square of the market. Possible visit to a wine
cellar with tasting.
End of the excursion and return of the participants. |
