Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Veneto
7 towns
Veneto holds 7 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Padova, Belluno, and Rovigo provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Arquà Petrarca, Battaglia Terme, and Abano Terme. 4 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.
Battaglia Terme
Province: Padova · 9 m
A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.
Abano Terme
Province: Padova · 14 m
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.
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.
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Province: Belluno · 1,224 m
The Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.
Rosolina
Province: Rovigo · 3 m
A reclaimed commune where a nine-kilometer beach and a maritime pine forest sit between the Adige mouth and the Adriatic.
Treviso
Province: Treviso · 15 m
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.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns to discover
Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.