Region
Veneto
Veneto's 41 towns in our catalogue split across the Treviso, Verona, and Belluno provinces; 13 carry the Città del Vino designation.
41 towns · highest: Cortina d'Ampezzo 1,224m · smallest: Portobuffolè 742 people
41 of 41 towns
41 of 41 towns
Abano Terme
Province: Padova
Europe's oldest thermal town on the Euganean Hills' eastern slope, where 80°C bromo-iodine springs have been drawing bathers since the eighth century BC.
Alleghe
Province: Belluno
A lakeside village at 979 meters, formed in 1771 when ten million cubic meters of rock crashed into the Cordevole.
Arquà Petrarca
Province: Padova
The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.
Asiago
Province: Vicenza
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.
Asolo
Province: Treviso
A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.
Auronzo di Cadore
Province: Belluno
A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.
Bardolino
Province: Verona
Lake Garda's east-shore wine town at 65 meters, where Corvina and Rondinella grapes have made Bardolino and Chiaretto since the Roman period.
Bassano del Grappa
Province: Vicenza
The Brenta River town at 129 meters where Palladio drew the covered bridge in 1569 and Nardini has been distilling grappa since 1779.
Battaglia Terme
Province: Padova
A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.
Borgo Valbelluna
Province: Belluno
Veneto's youngest comune, a 13,410-resident fusion of three lower-Belluno towns formed in 2019, wrapped around an old borgo in the pre-Dolomite Piave valley.
Brenzone sul Garda
Province: Verona
Sixteen lakeside hamlets strung along Lake Garda's east shore, where olive trees still outnumber the year-round residents.
Chioggia
Province: Venezia
Italy's second fishing port, on an island at the south end of the Venetian Lagoon, called Little Venice for its canal.
Cison di Valmarino
Province: Treviso
A Prosecco hills borgo at 261 meters under the dolomite rock of CastelBrando, the largest inhabited castle complex in Europe.
Conegliano
Province: Treviso
The Prosecco capital at 65 meters, birthplace of the painter Cima and home of Italy's first oenology school, opened in 1876.
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Province: Belluno
The Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.
Costermano sul Garda
Province: Verona
A morainal-hill commune at 237 meters above the eastern shore, home to one of the largest German military cemeteries in Italy.
Falcade
Province: Belluno
An Agordino ski village at 1,148 meters under the Focobon spires, with the San Pellegrino pass leading toward Trentino.
Farra di Soligo
Province: Treviso
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.
Feltre
Province: Belluno
A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, rebuilt after 1510 as the vertical village it remains.
Follina
Province: Treviso
A Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.
Lazise
Province: Verona
The walled port granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.
Malcesine
Province: Verona
The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.
Marostica
Province: Vicenza
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.
Montagnana
Province: Padova
A walled town on the lower Padova plain, its two kilometers of ramparts studded with 24 hexagonal towers.
Padova
Province: Padova
The university town that gave Giotto a chapel and the world a science of plants, with two UNESCO inscriptions inside one set of walls.
Peschiera del Garda
Province: Verona
The Venetian fortress town on a Mincio island at the southern outlet of Lake Garda.
Pieve di Soligo
Province: Treviso
The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.
Portobuffolè
Province: Treviso
The smallest commune in the Treviso province, a Livenza river port centered on the fourteenth-century home of the poet Gaia da Camino.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
Rosolina
Province: Rovigo
A reclaimed commune where a nine-kilometer beach and a maritime pine forest sit between the Adige mouth and the Adriatic.
San Vito di Cadore
Province: Belluno
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.
San Zeno di Montagna
Province: Verona
A village at 680 meters on the west slope of a mountain, where chestnut groves sit above the eastern shore of a lake.
Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella
Province: Verona
The Valpolicella DOC gateway northwest of Verona, where the Gargagnago frazione anchors Amarone production and a hilltop frazione holds a Lombard-era pieve.
Soave
Province: Verona
A walled wine town twenty kilometers east of Verona, where Garganega vineyards climb to a Scaligeri castle above the rooftops.
Susegana
Province: Treviso
The Collalto castle town at 76 meters on the left bank of the Piave, holding one of the largest medieval fortresses in northern Italy.
Torri del Benaco
Province: Verona
Lake Garda's east-shore castle town at 67 meters, with a ferry to Toscolano-Maderno and olive groves up to Albisano.
Treviso
Province: Treviso
The walled provincial capital at 15 meters between the Sile and Botteniga rivers, Venice's first mainland conquest in 1339 and the birthplace of tiramisu.
Valdobbiadene
Province: Treviso
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.
Valeggio sul Mincio
Province: Verona
A moraine-hills town at 88 meters between Garda and Mantua, with a 1393 Visconti bridge-dam over the Mincio and a tortellino called the love knot.
Vicenza
Province: Vicenza
Andrea Palladio's home city — a UNESCO-inscribed open-air museum of the architect who reshaped Western architecture, with 23 Palladian buildings inside the centro and the Villa Rotonda + Teatro Olimpico just outside it.
Vittorio Veneto
Province: Treviso
Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.
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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.