Farra di Soligo

Farra di Soligo sits at the literal centre of the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene Prosecco Hills — the corrugated landscape of steep hogback ridges (locally called rive) covered in Glera vineyards that produces the cru-level Prosecco Superiore DOCG (and the Cartizze grand-cru subzone, the highest legal classification of Italian sparkling wine). The whole landscape was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2019 as 'Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene', recognizing both the vineyard cultivation system and the 1,000+ years of human-shaped hillside terracing. Farra is one of the 15 comuni inside the inscribed area, an 8,477-resident commune altitude between Conegliano (10 km east) and Valdobbiadene (5 km west), and the most-photographed stretch of the rive runs through its territory.

The visual set-piece is the Torri di Credazzo — three 12th-c medieval watchtowers on a single hilltop above Soligo (a frazione of Farra), Italy's only surviving triple-tower medieval ensemble, with marked walking paths up from the village. Beyond the towers + vineyards: the Pieve di San Pietro (Romanesque, 11th-c, with detached campanile), the Pieve di San Vigilio at Col San Martino (12th-c with later frescoes), the Molinetto della Croda watermill (a working wooden watermill on the Lierza river, photogenic centrepiece of the Rive Vive walking circuit), and the Abbazia di Follina (11th-c Cistercian, 4 km southeast). Farra holds Cittaslow + Città del Vino on top of the UNESCO inscription.

The wine: 200+ producers across the comune + immediate neighbours, all working the DOCG zone, with the famous extra-dry Prosecco Superiore + the dry Cartizze grand-cru + the rare col fondo (lees-aged, unfiltered, naturally cloudy — the historical traditional version). The food is Veneto-prealpine: spaghetti al ragù di anatra, baccalà alla vicentina, tiramisù (invented 30 km south at Treviso), formaggio di Malga, and obviously the Prosecco itself paired with everything. The Festa del Vino (May) and the Sagra dell'Uva (October) are the year's main events. The 'Rive Vive' Sunday walking circuit (April-October) closes selected vineyard roads to cars and opens them to cellar-hopping walkers.