Hill towns
Hill towns in Veneto
5 towns
The ridge and hilltop borghi, sitting around 400 meters. Vineyards below, one road up, walkable once you are there. Good in almost any season.
The towns
Borgo Valbelluna
Province: Belluno · 367 m
Veneto's youngest comune, a 13,580-resident fusion of three lower-Belluno towns formed in 2019, wrapped around an old borgo in the pre-Dolomite Piave valley.
Feltre
Province: Belluno · 325 m
A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, rebuilt after 1510 as the vertical village it remains.
Cison di Valmarino
Province: Treviso · 261 m
A Prosecco hills borgo at 261 meters under the dolomite rock of CastelBrando, the largest inhabited castle complex in Europe.
Valdobbiadene
Province: Treviso · 253 m
The Prosecco Superiore capital at 253 meters in the Treviso Prealps, where Glera grown on Cartizze's 108 hectares produces Prosecco's top cru.
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.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Toblach
Province: Bolzano
The Val Pusteria gateway where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
Guardia Perticara
Province: Potenza
The stone village at 678 meters above the Sauro valley, rebuilt block by block in Gorgoglione sandstone after the 1980 earthquake.
Barberino di Mugello
Province: Firenze
The Mugello gateway at 272 meters where the Medici family kept its first country villas, with Michelozzo's Cafaggiolo and the artificial Lago di Bilancino below.
Martano
Province: Lecce
The biggest town in the area, twenty kilometers south of Lecce, where the Griko language still survives among older residents.
Alba Adriatica
Province: Teramo
The second of the Teramo coast's seven sisters from the north, a 1956 spin-off from Tortoreto with a fine-sand beach known as the Spiaggia d'Argento.