Mantova, Lombardia, Italia

What an amazing weekend I have just had... Alma had two friends visiting her in Soave, and so she had planned a trip down to Tuscany to go to a festival in a town called Certaldo, which I was lucky enough to tag along for. On the way down we stopped to spend the afternoon in Mantova, in Lombardia region. What a beautiful old town. It is completely surrounded by lakes on either side, and although it is not particularly big, was an incredible place to stroll around and see. The architecture is particularly diverse here when compared to a lot of the places I have already seen in Italy. We spent the rest of the afternoon eating panini under the big trees next to the lake, before cracking on to Certaldo in Tuscany.