Veneto

Abano Terme

Province: Padova

Europe's oldest thermal town on the Euganean Hills' eastern slope, where 80°C bromo-iodine springs have been drawing bathers since the eighth century BC.

Alleghe

Province: Belluno

A lakeside village at 979 meters under Monte Civetta, formed in 1771 when ten million cubic meters of rock crashed into the Cordevole.

Arquà Petrarca

Province: Padova

The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.

Asiago

Province: Vicenza

• 🧀Asiago DOP

The Sette Comuni plateau capital — a 6,285-resident high-altitude town at 1,001m in the Alpine prealps north of Vicenza, with the eponymous Asiago DOP cheese, the largest WWI ossuary in northern Italy (Sacrario del Leiten, 54,286 fallen soldiers), and Italy's most important professional astronomical observatory.

Asolo

Province: Treviso

A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.

Auronzo di Cadore

Province: Belluno

A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.

Bardolino

Province: Verona

Lake Garda's east-shore wine town at 65 meters, where Corvina and Rondinella grapes have made Bardolino and Chiaretto since the Roman period.

Bassano del Grappa

Province: Vicenza

The Brenta River town at 129 meters where Palladio drew the covered bridge in 1569 and Nardini has been distilling grappa since 1779.

Battaglia Terme

Province: Padova

A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.

Borgo Valbelluna

Province: Belluno

Veneto's youngest comune anchored by an old Borgo — a 13,410-resident comune formed in 2019 by the fusion of Mel + Trichiana + Lentiai in the Belluno-province pre-Dolomite Piave valley, with the BPB-inscribed Mel centro storico (a perfectly preserved 16th-c Venetian terraferma piazza) and the 11th-c Castello di Zumelle on a forested ridge above.

Brenzone sul Garda

Province: Verona

Sixteen lakeside hamlets strung along Lake Garda's east shore under Monte Baldo, where olive trees still outnumber the year-round residents.

Chioggia

Province: Venezia

Italy's second fishing port, on an island at the south end of the Venetian Lagoon, called Little Venice for the Canale Vena.

Cison di Valmarino

Province: Treviso

A Prosecco hills borgo at 261 meters under the dolomite rock of CastelBrando, the largest inhabited castle complex in Europe.

Conegliano

Province: Treviso

• 🥂Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG

The Prosecco capital at 65 meters, birthplace of the painter Cima and home of Italy's first oenology school, opened in 1876.

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Province: Belluno

The Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.

Costermano sul Garda

Province: Verona

A morainal-hill commune at 237 meters above the eastern shore of Lake Garda, with one of the largest German military cemeteries in Italy.

Falcade

Province: Belluno

An Agordino ski village at 1,148 meters under the Focobon spires, with the San Pellegrino pass to the Val di Fiemme.

Farra di Soligo

Province: Treviso

The heart of the Prosecco Hills UNESCO landscape — an 8,477-resident comune in the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene DOCG zone (UNESCO World Heritage since 2019), with the three medieval Torri di Credazzo crowning a hilltop above its vineyards, Cittaslow + Città del Vino signals, and direct walking access to the most photographed stretch of the hogback ridge.

Feltre

Province: Belluno

A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, sacked in 1510 by Habsburg troops and rebuilt as the vertical village it remains.

Follina

Province: Treviso

A Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.

Lazise

Province: Verona

The walled port on the southeastern shore of Lake Garda granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.

Malcesine

Province: Verona

The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.

Marostica

Province: Vicenza

The walled chess town below Vicenza, where two castles linked by a hill rampart stage a costumed reenactment of a 1454 match every two years.

Montagnana

Province: Padova

A walled town on the lower Padova plain with two kilometers of medieval ramparts and 24 hexagonal towers, headquarters of Prosciutto Veneto DOP.

Padova

Province: Padova

The university town that gave Giotto a chapel and the world a science of plants — TWO UNESCO inscriptions inside one city (Padua's 14th-century fresco cycles + the 1545 Orto Botanico, the world's first), plus Prato della Valle, Italy's largest piazza, and Galileo's old lecture hall.

Peschiera del Garda

Province: Verona

The Venetian fortress town on a Mincio island at the southern outlet of Lake Garda, UNESCO-listed in 2017 for its Sanmicheli bastions.

Pieve di Soligo

Province: Treviso

The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.

Portobuffolè

Province: Treviso

The smallest commune in the Treviso province, a Livenza river port centered on the fourteenth-century home of the poet Gaia da Camino.

Rocca Pietore

Province: Belluno

An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.

Rosolina

Province: Rovigo

A reclaimed Po Delta commune where a nine-kilometer beach and a maritime pine forest sit between the Adige mouth and the Adriatic.

San Vito di Cadore

Province: Belluno

A Cadore valley village at 1,011 meters between the Antelao and the Pelmo, ten kilometers south of Cortina and built around a fifteenth-century frescoed chapel.

San Zeno di Montagna

Province: Verona

The balcony of Lake Garda at 680 meters on the west slope of Monte Baldo, where chestnut groves sit above the eastern shore.

Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella

Province: Verona

The Valpolicella DOC gateway northwest of Verona, where the Gargagnago frazione anchors Amarone production and the San Giorgio frazione holds a Lombard-era pieve.

Soave

Province: Verona

• 🍷Soave Classico DOCG

A walled wine town twenty kilometers east of Verona, 2022 Borgo dei Borghi winner, where Garganega vineyards climb to the Scaligeri castle on Colle Tenda.

Susegana

Province: Treviso

The Collalto castle town at 76 meters on the left bank of the Piave, with one of the largest medieval fortresses in northern Italy.

Torri del Benaco

Province: Verona

Lake Garda's east-shore castle town at 67 meters, with a 1383 Scaligero fortress, a ferry to Toscolano-Maderno and olive groves up to Albisano.

Treviso

Province: Treviso

The walled provincial capital at 15 meters between the Sile and Botteniga rivers, Venice's first mainland conquest in 1339 and the birthplace of tiramisu.

Valdobbiadene

Province: Treviso

• 🥂Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG

The Prosecco Superiore capital at 253 meters in the Treviso Prealps, where Glera grown on Cartizze's 108 hectares produces the most expensive Italian sparkling wine.

Valeggio sul Mincio

Province: Verona

A moraine-hills town at 88 meters between Garda and Mantua, with a 1393 Visconti bridge-dam over the Mincio and a tortellino called the love knot.

Vicenza

Province: Vicenza

Andrea Palladio's home city — a UNESCO-inscribed open-air museum of the architect who reshaped Western architecture, with 23 Palladian buildings inside the centro and the Villa Rotonda + Teatro Olimpico just outside it.

Vittorio Veneto

Province: Treviso

Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.