Day trips
Day trips from Venezia
22 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Padova is 34 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
Padova
Province: Padova · 12 m
34 minutes from Venezia. The university town that gave Giotto a chapel and the world a science of plants, with two UNESCO inscriptions inside one set of walls.
Treviso
Province: Treviso · 15 m
39 minutes from Venezia. 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.
Battaglia Terme
Province: Padova · 9 m
43 minutes from Venezia. A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.
Abano Terme
Province: Padova · 14 m
44 minutes from Venezia. 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.
Chioggia
Province: Venezia · 2 m
46 minutes from Venezia. Italy's second fishing port, on an island at the south end of the Venetian Lagoon, called Little Venice for its canal.
Arquà Petrarca
Province: Padova · 56 m
50 minutes from Venezia. The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.
Vicenza
Province: Vicenza · 39 m
52 minutes from Venezia. 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.
Conegliano
Province: Treviso · 65 m
53 minutes from Venezia. The Prosecco capital at 65 meters, birthplace of the painter Cima and home of Italy's first oenology school, opened in 1876.
Susegana
Province: Treviso · 76 m
57 minutes from Venezia. The Collalto castle town at 76 meters on the left bank of the Piave, holding one of the largest medieval fortresses in northern Italy.
Vittorio Veneto
Province: Treviso · 138 m
59 minutes from Venezia. Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.
Portobuffolè
Province: Treviso · 10 m
63 minutes from Venezia. The smallest commune in the Treviso province, a Livenza river port centered on the fourteenth-century home of the poet Gaia da Camino.
Pieve di Soligo
Province: Treviso · 132 m
64 minutes from Venezia. The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.
Farra di Soligo
Province: Treviso · 161 m
68 minutes from Venezia. An 8,477-resident comune in the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene DOCG zone, with the three medieval Torri di Credazzo crowning a hilltop above its vineyards and Cittaslow plus Città del Vino status alongside it.
Asolo
Province: Treviso · 205 m
70 minutes from Venezia. A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.
Soave
Province: Verona · 40 m
70 minutes from Venezia. A walled wine town twenty kilometers east of Verona, where Garganega vineyards climb to a Scaligeri castle above the rooftops.
Follina
Province: Treviso · 191 m
73 minutes from Venezia. A Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.
Montagnana
Province: Padova · 16 m
76 minutes from Venezia. A walled town on the lower Padova plain, its two kilometers of ramparts studded with 24 hexagonal towers.
Bassano del Grappa
Province: Vicenza · 129 m
79 minutes from Venezia. The Brenta River town at 129 meters where Palladio drew the covered bridge in 1569 and Nardini has been distilling grappa since 1779.
Cison di Valmarino
Province: Treviso · 261 m
79 minutes from Venezia. A Prosecco hills borgo at 261 meters under the dolomite rock of CastelBrando, the largest inhabited castle complex in Europe.
Marostica
Province: Vicenza · 103 m
79 minutes from Venezia. 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.
Rosolina
Province: Rovigo · 3 m
79 minutes from Venezia. A reclaimed commune where a nine-kilometer beach and a maritime pine forest sit between the Adige mouth and the Adriatic.
Valdobbiadene
Province: Treviso · 253 m
85 minutes from Venezia. 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.
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Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.