Città dell'Olio
Città dell'Olio in Veneto
8 towns
Veneto has 8 Città dell'Olio communes in our index. They cluster in the Treviso, Verona, and Vicenza provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Arquà Petrarca, Asolo, and Malcesine. 5 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.
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.
Bassano del Grappa
Province: Vicenza · 129 m
The Brenta River town at 129 meters where Palladio drew the covered bridge in 1569 and Nardini has been distilling grappa since 1779.
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.
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.
Brenzone sul Garda
Province: Verona · 75 m
Sixteen lakeside hamlets strung along Lake Garda's east shore, where olive trees still outnumber the year-round residents.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns to discover
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.