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Veneto · Treviso

Pieve di Soligo

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

Best time
Apr–Oct
By car
1 h from Venice
Population
11,535

Known for

  • ANDREA ZANZOTTO

    The poet born here in 1921 and died in 2011, one of the major Italian voices of the twentieth century; the town runs the annual Premio Pieve Zanzotto.

  • PROSECCO CONSORTIUM

    Villa Brandolini holds the seat of the Consorzio di Tutela del Prosecco Superiore DOCG, regulating production across fifteen UNESCO-listed communes.

  • TWO RIVERS

    The Soligo and Lierza meet in the commune; the flat valley floor between them carries the market town and the hill slopes rising north hold the Prosecco vineyards.

When to visit

Best · Apr–Oct

  • J8°
  • F10°
  • M13°
  • A17°
  • M21°
  • J26°
  • J29°
  • A29°
  • S24°
  • O19°
  • N13°
  • D9°
  • Best
  • Hot or crowded
  • Quiet
  • Mostly closed

Daytime averages, 2020–2024. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com.

The festa: Maria Maddalena, 22 July

Why come

Pieve di Soligo sits, fifty-five kilometers north of Venice, where the Soligo and Lierza rivers meet on the commune's flat valley floor. The territory splits roughly two-thirds level ground to one-third hillside, the lower edge of a hogback landscape that rises toward the vineyard slopes to the north. The market town occupies the flat stretch between the two watercourses; the upper village, where the old paved street of Cal Santa runs, sits apart from the newer centro that has grown around the cathedral and its campanile.

An eighteenth-century country estate on the edge of town, with Venetian stuccoes and a private chapel, now serves an administrative function tied to the wine that covers the northern hills, while the Solighetto frazione keeps its own smaller eighteenth-century parish church, campanile detached from the nave, with a garden that shares the Brandolini name. The poet born and later died in the town gave his late work a mapped version of the upper village, renaming its street in verse. Between the rivers below and the vineyard hills above, the commune reads as a working valley floor with a market town at its center, its administrative reach over regional wine production and its literary claim both rooted in the same small geography.

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How to get there

From Venice (TSF), about 48 minutes by car.

Verona (VRN) is about 2h 16m away.

By car from the centre of Padua 1h 19m or Udine 1h 38m.

Coming by train into Venezia Santa Lucia? Pieve di Soligo is about 1 hour away by road.

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Pieve di Soligo, photo 1
Pieve di Soligo, photo 2

What to see

  • Villa Brandolini

    Eighteenth-century country estate with Venetian stucco interiors and a private chapel, now headquarters of the Consorzio di Tutela del Prosecco Superiore DOCG.

  • Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta

    Neo-Romanesque cathedral with neo-Gothic elements designed by Domenico Rupolo, consecrated in 1924, with a 75-meter campanile over the centro.

  • Colline del Prosecco

    UNESCO World Heritage hogback hills on the northern edge of the commune, inscribed in 2019, with Prosecco Superiore DOCG vineyards between 150 and 300 meters.

  • Cal Santa

    Old paved street in the upper village, the topical place of Andrea Zanzotto's late poetry and renamed in his work as Contrada Zauberkraft.

  • Chiesa di Solighetto

    Eighteenth-century parish church in the Solighetto frazione, with a campanile separated from the nave and the small Villa Brandolini Rota gardens.

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Where to eat

Not our picks, but places the guides put their name to: a Michelin star, a Gambero Rosso fork, a Slow Food snail, a Michelin Key for the hotels. Worth a table, a counter, or a night when you pass through.

  • Da LinoRistorante

    Da Lino has one Gambero Rosso fork (75/100) to its name.

Through the year

What happens here

Feasts and festivals that come back year after year. We give the month rather than the date, because the date moves and the month rarely does. Check with the source before you plan a journey around one.

Living here

  • Population 11,535
  • Commuter belti
  • Pharmacy in town
  • High school within a 30-minute drive
  • Nearest airport Venice, 48 min drive
  • Regional capital Venezia, 1 h 4 min drive

Common questions

What is Pieve di Soligo known for?
Pieve di Soligo is the market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.
Where is Pieve di Soligo?
Pieve di Soligo is a comune in the province of Treviso, in Veneto, at 132 meters above sea level.
What is the nearest airport to Pieve di Soligo?
Venice (TSF), about 48 minutes by car.
How long is the drive from Padua to Pieve di Soligo?
About 1h 19m by car.
When is the best time to visit Pieve di Soligo?
Best in Apr–Oct. July is the warmest month, averaging 29 degrees, and May the wettest, with about 14 rain days.
Is there a sagra or a festival in Pieve di Soligo?
Yes. Pieve di Sera and Festa di San Tiziano a Pieve di Soligo. July is when the first of them falls.
Which other towns are like Pieve di Soligo?
Marostica, Vittorio Veneto and Spilimbergo.
How many people live in Pieve di Soligo?
11,535 at the 2023 count.
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The numbers

  • Elevation: 132 m
  • Population: 11,535
  • Surface area: 19.02 km²

These figures were compiled from public directories: ISTAT, OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, and from the official listings of the guides named on this page. Town details change; verify with official sources before you travel.

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