Instead of Verona
Instead of Verona: hill towns and lake towns within 2 hours
Verona has an arena, a balcony that is not Juliet's, and a coach park to match both. It is a fine city and a short stay.
The hills north and west of it, and the southern end of Garda, are where people who live in Verona go at the weekend.
Hill towns and lake towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Verona by road, ranked by outside recognition. Verona itself and the other famous places are left out. 30 towns match; the 12 best-recognised are below.
Instead of Verona
Verona · 255,588 residents · Veneto
- Gardone RivieraBrescia
Lake town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Verona
- 1h 18m by car
- Residents
- 2,626
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- AsoloTreviso
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Verona
- 1h 27m by car
- Residents
- 8,916
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- MalcesineVerona
Lake town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Verona
- 1h 23m by car
- Residents
- 3,603
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- TennoTrento
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Verona
- 1h 22m by car
- Residents
- 2,002
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- Castell'ArquatoPiacenza
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Verona
- 1h 45m by car
- Residents
- 4,617
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
The 5 best-recognised of the 30 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Verona. More of them follow below.
Gardone Riviera
Province: Brescia · 71 m
A western Garda lakeshore town whose hillside holds an estate turned into a monument to one man's self-image.
Asolo
Province: Treviso · 205 m
A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.
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.
Tenno
Province: Trento · 428 m
A hillside commune above Lake Garda where a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake and the northernmost olive groves in Europe sit within reach of each other.
Castell'Arquato
Province: Piacenza · 224 m
A 224-meter hilltop borgo in the Val d'Arda, kept intact since the tenth century and crowned by Luchino Visconti's 1342 fortress.
Vernasca
Province: Piacenza · 457 m
A Val d'Arda commune in the Piacenza Apennines, holding the walled village of Vigoleno and one of the most compact castled borghi in Emilia.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento · 520 m
A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 metres, built on arsenic-iron thermal waters.
Limone sul Garda
Province: Brescia · 65 m
The northernmost lemon-growing town in the world, at 46 degrees north on the western shore of Lake Garda, reached by road only in 1932.
Tignale
Province: Brescia · 560 m
A six-hamlet commune on a high terrace above Lake Garda's western shore, anchored by a clifftop sanctuary and the last working limonaie north of Salò.
Monte Isola
Province: Brescia · 600 m
The largest lake island in southern and central Europe, 4.5 square kilometers in Lake Iseo, with no cars and eleven fishing villages on its shore.
Peschiera del Garda
Province: Verona · 68 m
The Venetian fortress town on a Mincio island at the southern outlet of Lake Garda.
Sarnico
Province: Bergamo · 197 m
A medieval lake town at the southern tip of Lago d'Iseo, where the Oglio leaves the lake and Liberty villas line the shore.
Drive times measured by road from Verona. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.