Europe, the biggest city in the world

Right now, I am living in Levico Terme, a city of a population of less than 7000 inhabitants which in most places of the American Continent I know would hardly considered civilization by metropolitan people.

Five kilometers east of Levico is a rural zone whey they grow apples, strawberries, flowers, potatoes and other things. And some 15Km northeast of Levico is Trento, the capital of the Province with a population of about 100,000, which is not big for a metropolis in American Terms and, well, not even in European terms, if compared with Rome, Milano, Paris, London and so forth.

Oddly enough, in a way here I feel a bit like in a metropolis.

Which way is that? Well, I think one of the things I like the most in metropolitan life is the amount of things you can do and this is only possible because when a critical urban mass occurs, the mobility over different things create a very interesting synergy that makes everything more interesting, even better if you have a transportation system that becomes a second nature to walking.

One of the things I like the most in Europe are the trains, the transportation system in general and the relationship of people with them. Why, because every little city has a very good transportation system, in general train, that connects them in an easy way with the places around and, eventually with the whole europe.

In a way, taking the train to Trento, from Levico is not different of using the underground in a big city, apart from the cost and the trip time, but I think that this leads to a somehow metropolitan mentality even on the rural areas, and this is one of the things that makes Europe so great, at least from my point of view.

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