Riserva Naturale
Riserva Naturale in Veneto
4 towns
Veneto has 4 Riserva Naturale communes in our index. They cluster in the Belluno, Venezia, and Verona provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Malcesine, Chioggia, and Auronzo di Cadore. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
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.
Chioggia
Province: Venezia · 2 m
Italy's second fishing port, on an island at the south end of the Venetian Lagoon, called Little Venice for its canal.
Auronzo di Cadore
Province: Belluno · 864 m
A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.
Feltre
Province: Belluno · 325 m
A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, rebuilt after 1510 as the vertical village it remains.
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Capestrano
Province: L'Aquila
A hilltop village at 465 meters above the Tirino valley, where in 1934 a farmer turned up the 6th-century BC limestone Warrior of Capestrano.
Morcone
Province: Benevento
A Sannite hill town at 600 meters above the Tammaro valley, with 5th-century BC walls and the convent where a future saint took his vows.
Fénis
Province: Aosta Valley
The Castello di Fénis, with its double ring of crenellated walls, eight cylindrical towers, and frescoed inner courtyard, sits at the centre of a small Aostan commune east of Aosta, with an Apennine reserve climbing south to 3,000m.
Vinci
Province: Firenze
The hill town on Montalbano where Leonardo was born in 1452, with a ship-shaped castle that now holds his machines.
Mezzojuso
Province: Palermo
An Arbëreshë village of two mother churches, one Latin, one Byzantine, whose Arabic name means the houses of Joseph.