Bandiera Arancione
Bandiera Arancione in Veneto
12 towns
Veneto carries 12 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. Most cluster in the Treviso, Verona, and Belluno provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Arquà Petrarca, Asolo, and Malcesine. 9 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Arquà Petrarca
Province: Padova · 56 m
The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.
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.
Malcesine
Province: Verona · 89 m
The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.
Follina
Province: Treviso · 191 m
A Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.
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.
Montagnana
Province: Padova · 16 m
A walled town on the lower Padova plain, its two kilometers of ramparts studded with 24 hexagonal towers.
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.
Soave
Province: Verona · 40 m
A walled wine town twenty kilometers east of Verona, where Garganega vineyards climb to a Scaligeri castle above the rooftops.
Valeggio sul Mincio
Province: Verona · 88 m
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.
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.
Marostica
Province: Vicenza · 103 m
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.
Portobuffolè
Province: Treviso · 10 m
The smallest commune in the Treviso province, a Livenza river port centered on the fourteenth-century home of the poet Gaia da Camino.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Ulassai
Province: Ogliastra
One of the highest villages in Ogliastra, at 775 meters on a ledge beneath the Tacchi.
Cordovado
Province: Pordenone
A 15-meter Friulian village in the Pordenone plain, fortified by the bishops of Concordia as their summer seat and described in Ippolito Nievo's Confessions.
Pescocostanzo
Province: L'Aquila
A planned Renaissance town at 1,395 meters on the Quarto Grande plateau, with bobbin lace, wrought iron, and the wood ceilings of a five-nave church.
Greccio
Province: Rieti
A 705-meter borgo on a ridge above the Rieti valley, built around the cave of the first living nativity scene.
Gromo
Province: Bergamo
A medieval iron-forging town at 676 meters on a rock spur above the Serio, once called the little Toledo for its sword smiths.