What is Treviso known for?

Invented at Alle Beccherie restaurant near the duomo in the 1970s; the recipe was certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010. Botteniga splits into a working network of canals through the centro storico, with the Pescheria fish market on its own island. Radicchio Rosso di Treviso IGP, the bitter winter chicory grown in fields south of the city and forced in dark water sheds from November to March.

Treviso is a comune in the province of Treviso, Veneto region of Italy, about 39 kilometers from Venezia.

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Treviso

The walled provincial capitalbetween the Sile and Botteniga rivers, Venice's first mainland conquest in 1339 and the birthplace of tiramisu.

39 km / 24 mi

Nearest hub (Venezia)

84,607

Population

Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct

Best time to visit

Why come

Treviso sitswhere the Botteniga flows into the Sile, twenty-five kilometers inland from Venice. The Roman Tarvisium took its name from a Celtic root for bull, and the city became a municipium after 89 BC. After the Caminesi and a brief Scaliger domination, Treviso submitted to the Republic of Venice on 29 June 1339, the first major mainland territory of the Serenissima. The walls and ramparts that still ring the centro storico were built then and renewed in the next century under Fra Giocondo. The Botteniga splits into a network of canals locals call the cagnan; the Sile runs the southern flank of the walls and feeds the Pescheria, the fish market on its own island. The Palazzo dei Trecento on Piazza dei Signori, the Loggia dei Cavalieri, the Duomo with the Annunciazione of Titian and the frescoed cloister of San Nicolò give the city its medieval and Renaissance spine. Tiramisu was invented at the Alle Beccherie restaurant near the duomo in the 1970s.

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Known for

Piazza dei Signori
Civic heart of Treviso, with the thirteenth-century Palazzo dei Trecento, the Torre Civica and the arcades that frame the medieval public space.
Duomo di San Pietro
Cathedral founded in the twelfth century and rebuilt in the eighteenth, with the Annunciazione by Titian in the Malchiostro chapel.
Chiesa di San Nicolò
Gothic Dominican church with frescoes by Tomaso da Modena, including the 1352 chapter house portraits of forty Dominican brothers.
Canali e Pescheria
Network of Botteniga canals threading the centro storico, with the Pescheria fish market on its own island under arcaded stone walks.
Mura Venete
Sixteenth-century city walls and ramparts, built after Treviso's 1339 submission to Venice and renewed under Fra Giocondo, still encircling the centro storico.
Loggia dei Cavalieri
Open arcaded loggia from the second half of the thirteenth century, built as a meeting space for the local nobility on Piazza dei Signori.

When to visit

Best months · Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct

Best
Hot or crowded
Quiet
Mostly closed

April through June and September through October are the working months. The Sile and the canals are at their best in spring and autumn, when the willows along the southern walls are in leaf and the trattorie open their courtyards. July and August push past thirty degrees and the centro storico empties in the afternoon; the canals still hold cooler air at dusk. Radicchio Rosso comes into season from November through February and the trattorie around the Pescheria put it in everything from risotti to grilled wedges. November through March can be foggy and grey, the cagnan running fast and dark. Venice is twenty-five kilometers south by train, Conegliano and the Prosecco hills thirty north.