Ski Area
Ski Area in Veneto
9 towns
Veneto holds 9 Ski Area sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Belluno, Treviso, and Verona provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Malcesine, Vittorio Veneto, and Cortina d'Ampezzo. 6 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Malcesine
Province: Verona · 89 m
The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.
Vittorio Veneto
Province: Treviso · 138 m
Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Province: Belluno · 1,224 m
The Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno · 1,143 m
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
Auronzo di Cadore
Province: Belluno · 864 m
A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.
San Vito di Cadore
Province: Belluno · 1,011 m
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.
Alleghe
Province: Belluno · 979 m
A lakeside village at 979 meters under Monte Civetta, formed in 1771 when ten million cubic meters of rock crashed into the Cordevole.
Asiago
Province: Vicenza · 1,001 m
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.
Falcade
Province: Belluno · 1,148 m
An Agordino ski village at 1,148 meters under the Focobon spires, with the San Pellegrino pass to the Val di Fiemme.
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Putignano
Province: Bari
Europe's longest-running carnival — Putignano Carnevale has run continuously since 1394, with 631 years of cartapesta papier-mâché floats, a 26,000-resident Murgia town on the Bari–Lecce plateau, and the Grotta del Trullo karst cave inside the centro.
Pistoia
Province: Pistoia
Italy's nursery capital and the medieval Tuscan rival that gave its name to the pistol — a quietly extraordinary centro storico of zebra-striped Romanesque churches, Andrea della Robbia's polychrome frieze on the Ospedale del Ceppo, and Italy's Capital of Culture 2017, all 30 minutes from Florence by train.
Tropea
Province: Vibo Valentia
Cliff town on a tufa headland over the Tyrrhenian Coast of the Gods, with a Norman monastery on a sea rock.
Caldes
Province: Trento
A scattered Val di Sole commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Cantiano
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A border borgo at 374 meters under Monte Catria on the old Via Flaminia, known for the Good Friday Turba and the sour-cherry visciola harvest.