Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Veneto
11 towns
Veneto carries 11 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They cluster in the Treviso, Verona, and Belluno provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Arquà Petrarca, Asolo, and Malcesine. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
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.
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 13,410-resident fusion of three lower-Belluno towns formed in 2019, wrapped around an old borgo in the pre-Dolomite Piave valley.
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.
Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella
Province: Verona · 174 m
The Valpolicella DOC gateway northwest of Verona, where the Gargagnago frazione anchors Amarone production and a hilltop frazione holds a Lombard-era pieve.
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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.