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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Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.

Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.

Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.

Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.

Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.
