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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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.