Slow trip

10 slow days: Asolo

A 10-day slow trip across 9 towns based out of Asolo, drawn from the 1,000 Italian communes most travelers skip.

10 days · September · food & wine-first · moderate walking

Asolo

Asolo, 10 days

Base yourself in Asolo and make these your day trips.

9 towns · qualifying pool of 10 from 53 candidates

Plain towns in the provinces of Treviso, Padova, and Vicenza. Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, wine territory, and TCI Bandiera Arancione.

Getting around

Rent a car for this corner. Asolo, your base, has no station, so plan to arrive by car. Only 3 of the 9 towns have a railway station; the day trips assume driving.

Your timing

September sits in this corner's best window: open, temperate, and short of the crowd months.

While you're there

Marostica — Partita a Scacchi a Personaggi Viventi, SeptemberBiennial second-weekend-of-September living-chess game in even years with 650 costumed performers reenacting a 1454 noble love story on the giant board.
Bassano del Grappa — Operaestate Festival, SeptemberMultidisciplinary summer festival of theatre, dance, music and cinema since 1981

Day 1 · Arrive in Asolo

Settle in. Asolo is your base for the next 10 days. Take the afternoon to walk the centro, find your bearings, eat something local.

Province: Treviso

Asolo

A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.

Picked for:food and wine · hill town

Day 2 · Day trip to Bassano del Grappa

First outing. Head to Bassano del Grappa for the day. Take the slow road, leave time to wander, be back in Asolo for dinner.

Province: Vicenza

Bassano del Grappa

The Brenta River town at 129 meters where Palladio drew the covered bridge in 1569 and Nardini has been distilling grappa since 1779.

Picked for:food and wine · plain · Operaestate Festival, September

Day 3 · Day trip to Farra di Soligo

Out again, this time to Farra di Soligo. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Treviso

Farra di Soligo

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.

Picked for:food and wine · plain

Day 4 · Day trip to Marostica

Out again, this time to Marostica. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Vicenza

Marostica

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.

Picked for:food and wine · plain · Partita a Scacchi a Personag…, September

Day 5 · Day trip to Valdobbiadene

Out again, this time to Valdobbiadene. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Treviso

Valdobbiadene

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.

Picked for:food and wine · hill town

Day 6 · Day trip to Follina

Out again, this time to Follina. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Treviso

Follina

A Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.

Picked for:food and wine · plain

Day 7 · Day trip to Cison di Valmarino

Out again, this time to Cison di Valmarino. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Treviso

Cison di Valmarino

A Prosecco hills borgo at 261 meters under the dolomite rock of CastelBrando, the largest inhabited castle complex in Europe.

Picked for:food and wine · hill town

Day 8 · Day trip to Vittorio Veneto

Out again, this time to Vittorio Veneto. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Asolo.

Province: Treviso

Vittorio Veneto

Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.

Picked for:food and wine · plain

Day 9 · Day trip to Arquà Petrarca

Last day trip in this corner, to Arquà Petrarca. Make a day of it, then back to Asolo.

Province: Padova

Arquà Petrarca

The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.

Picked for:food and wine · plain

Day 10 · Day in Asolo

A slower day. Stay in Asolo. Walk side streets, find the market, take a long lunch.

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