Mountain towns
Mountain towns in Veneto
7 towns
Towns inside a named range: the Alps, the Dolomites, the Apennines, the Pollino, the Aspromonte. Around 800 metres and up, where the season decides the trip.
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Province: Belluno · 1,224 m
The Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.
Falcade
Province: Belluno · 1,148 m
An Agordino ski village at 1,148 meters under the Focobon spires, with the San Pellegrino pass leading toward Trentino.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno · 1,143 m
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
San Vito di Cadore
Province: Belluno · 1,011 m
A Cadore valley village at 1,011 meters between the Antelao and the Pelmo, ten kilometers south of Cortina and built around a fifteenth-century frescoed chapel.
Asiago
Province: Vicenza · 1,001 m
The Sette Comuni plateau capital: a 6,285-resident high-altitude town at 1,001m in the Alpine prealps north of Vicenza, holding the largest WWI ossuary in northern Italy (Sacrario del Leiten, 54,286 fallen soldiers) and Italy's most important professional astronomical observatory.
Alleghe
Province: Belluno · 979 m
A lakeside village at 979 meters, formed in 1771 when ten million cubic meters of rock crashed into the Cordevole.
Auronzo di Cadore
Province: Belluno · 864 m
A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.
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Taurasi
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia wine village at 400 meters above the Calore valley, the southern home of Aglianico called Barolo of the South.
Ulassai
Province: Nuoro
The highest village in Ogliastra, at 775 meters on a ledge beneath the Tacchi.
Udine
Province: Udine
The historic capital of Friuli, built around a man-made castle hill.
Framura
Province: La Spezia
Five hamlets between sea level and 300 meters on the Riviera di Levante, with Byzantine watchtowers built against Saracen incursions.
Corvara in Badia
Province: Bolzano
The Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.