153. Treviso: Not at all to be ignored

Photo: Piazza Signori

There are two cities that have had a great impact in my life and that is Walsall in England where I grew up and Treviso, the province of my birth. But if I go round the world and say that I consider both cities as my home towns, people will look at me goggled eyed and say Walsall? Where’s that? Treviso? Where’s that? As if I really know how to make things difficult for them. Why didn’t I grow up in Birmingham or was born in Venice? After all those more famous cities are respectively only a few miles away from my home towns.

Photo: Piazza Signori

Photo: The Duomo- Could they not get rid of all cars from the center?

Photo: Duomo (rear) Beautiful without the cars!

Last weekend my cousins came up from Rome and one of them had never seen Treviso so we all set off for a spot of sightseeing especially when I realized I did not have a single digital photo of my province at all.

Pity there are cars

I think it is only when you have a camera in your hands that your awareness of what surrounds you becomes more accentuated and I started noticing brick and wall structures I had apparently not been aware of in the past. The beauty and perfection of the patters, the magnitude and majesty of the buildings left me quite impressed. For a city whose existence everyone else in the world is blissfully unaware of, it certainly has its points.

Photo: There is an acient mill in the middle of the shops and offices

The River Sile runs right through the centre of the city

Of course I have been to Treviso several times, but like the rest of us who tread the same familiar steps of the city, or street we live in, we take it for granted, hardly notice it at all until one day one decides it’s time to open one’s eyes and savour the difference.

Photo: We ate at a winery

Photo: The Bride & Groom arrived on bikes

After all, at the end of the day it is we who live in our towns that make them significant to us and even if what we do in and to those cities is important only to us, then that is all that matters.

Photo: Boundary Wall