Città del Vino
Città del Vino in Veneto
13 towns
Veneto has 13 Città del Vino communes in our index. They are in the Treviso, Verona, and Padova provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Arquà Petrarca, Asolo, and Follina. 10 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.
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.
Vittorio Veneto
Province: Treviso · 138 m
Two old towns fused at 138 meters under the Cansiglio, where the October 1918 battle ended the First World War on the Italian front.
Farra di Soligo
Province: Treviso · 161 m
An 8,510-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.
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.
Susegana
Province: Treviso · 76 m
The Collalto castle town at 76 meters on the left bank of the Piave, holding one of the largest medieval fortresses in northern Italy.
Conegliano
Province: Treviso · 65 m
The Prosecco capital at 65 meters, birthplace of the painter Cima and home of Italy's first oenology school, opened in 1876.
Lazise
Province: Verona · 76 m
The walled port granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.
Pieve di Soligo
Province: Treviso · 132 m
The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.
Valdobbiadene
Province: Treviso · 253 m
The Prosecco Superiore capital at 253 meters in the Treviso Prealps, where Glera grown on Cartizze's 108 hectares produces Prosecco's top cru.
Bardolino
Province: Verona · 65 m
Lake Garda's east-shore wine town at 65 meters, where Corvina and Rondinella grapes have made Bardolino and Chiaretto since the Roman period.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Roccamorice
Province: Pescara
A village at 520 meters in the Majella foothills, gateway to the rock-cut hermitages carved into the surrounding limestone.
Santa Fiora
Province: Grosseto
An Aldobrandeschi and Sforza mountain borgo on Monte Amiata at 687 meters, holding one of the world's largest collections of Della Robbia terracotta.
Recanati
Province: Macerata
The hill town at 296 meters overlooking the Musone valley toward the Adriatic.
Nociglia
Province: Lecce
A small Salento interior village forty kilometers south of Lecce, a fourteenth-century baronial castle and a Bosco Belvedere that gave the place its name.
Ronciglione
Province: Viterbo
A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.