|
|
Day
1
(September 13, 2020) Brescia
Before
Landing on Milan's Linate Airport is expected for 4:40 PM.
We'll
pick up our hired car there and will drive to our hotel in Brescia.
It's not clear when we're going to have our lunch this day, but dinner
will be in Brescia Old Town for sure.
We plan to explore the Brescia's Old Town between this evening and
tomorrow morning, to which we can go by walking from the hotel.
The spots marked at map are:
0- Hotel Master
1- Brescia's Castle
2- Capitolium
3- Piazza Duomo
4- Piazza della Loggia
5- Pallata Tower
|
After
We're experiencing for the first time the new
normality of travelling this year of pandemic. We must wear mask since
we get into Dublin airport until leaving Milan airport. In exchange of
this, we have no lines when checking in, passing the security check
or boarding. On flight we've got all the space, but there are
no drinks or food available.
Picking the car is quick too, even having to wait
for two customers that were there before. We must wait out of the small office since
only one customer is allowed inside. In less than one hour we're
parking in our hotel in Brescia
and, after getting our room, we walk to the city centre for finally having
our lunch - and dinner -, since it's 6 PM.
In 10 minutes we reach Piazza della Loggia and walk under the clock
tower to choose a fancy restaurant. This area is full of restaurants.
We both order the same: a main course of pasta
with olives and scallops that are delicious but, for this price we
expected to get full. We pay 54€ for the meals, wine, coke and water.
 
We get into the first "gelateria" that we find to
definitively kill the hunger with an ice cream. It's past 7 PM and it
is already dark. We walk around looking for the spots we planned to
see, the ones in the map above, which we can enjoy with its night
lights.
 
First we go to Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square), where we can find
together the New and Old Cathedrals and, besides, a beautiful stone
palace with a high tower.
 
Before leaving this area we stop by the Capitolium, a
Roman ruins, and then take the way up to the castle to get a closer
look of it. Once we are back down we're sweeting.
 
In our way back to the hotel we pass by Piazza della Vittoria, with
some wonderful modern buildings, and the Tower known as "Torre della
Pallata".
 
We reach our room with no plan to leave it again today and
rest, more from the climb to the castle than from the rest of the walk.
|
|
|
|
