Vittorio Veneto

Vittorio Veneto sits at the foot of the Cansiglio plateau, seventy-five kilometers north of Padova. The commune was formed in 1866 by merging Ceneda on the plain and Serravalle in the narrow valley above, named for King Vittorio Emanuele II. The two centers kept their own identities.

Serravalle is the older, walled district, with sixteenth-century houses, a 1755 cathedral holding a Titian altarpiece of the Virgin with Saints Peter and Andrew, and the 1462 Loggia Serravallese. Ceneda lower down has an eighteenth-century cathedral and the ruins of the fifteenth-century San Martino castle. The Loggia of the Comunità di Ceneda, built 1534-1538, houses the Museo della Battaglia, dedicated to the offensive launched on 24 October 1918 that broke the Austro-Hungarian line.

The Austrian-Italian Armistice of Villa Giusti effective 4 November closed the war on this front. In July 1923 the town was renamed Vittorio Veneto after the battle that took its name. The Cansiglio forest and the Lago di Revine sit fifteen minutes drive to the north.