Europe’s ‘capital of Prosecco’ is a beautiful Italian town with flights from just £15

It’s nary concealed that Venice is becoming a small too popular with tourists.

In a bid to curb the fig of visitors, the past metropolis precocious launched its controversial introduction fee and besides imposed a bounds connected the size of circuit groups.

The overcrowding led 1 Redditor to question wherefore different cities successful the Veneto portion of Northern Italy get truthful overlooked.

‘Everything you deliberation you want, from past to creation to food, is besides disposable successful Padova, Vicenza, Treviso…. Why are radical lone going to Venice?’ asked @Fastness2000.

Good question.

Treviso, often dubbed ‘Little Venice’, is possibly the champion alternate to its busier counterpart, with the aforesaid chromatic bridges that transverse implicit quaint canals.

But it’s a destination successful its ain right, too. Lonely Planet said that portion Treviso is ‘eclipsed by its much awesome neighbours’ it offers an ‘authentic’ acquisition with ‘medieval metropolis walls, tons of beauteous canals, constrictive cobbled streets and frescoed churches’.

Let’s besides not hide that Treviso is (arguably) the location of tiramisu, and its surrounding countryside is wherever immoderate of the champion fizz successful the satellite is made, with the municipality often dubbed the ‘capital of Prosecco’. Do you truly request immoderate different crushed to visit?

Before you publication your flights and popular those corks, here’s everything you request to cognize astir Treviso…

How to get to Treviso

The bully quality is that Treviso has its ain airport, and it’s adjacent to the metropolis centre – a car travel takes conscionable 12 minutes.

You tin publication a nonstop formation from the UK, with prices starting from conscionable £16 1 mode with Ryanair, departing from Birmingham Airport successful November.

You’ll walk a small much if you’re travelling from London, but not much, arsenic fares are presently £17 each way. The lone downside is that astatine the moment, routes lone run retired of London Luton airport. Currently, 1 formation a time is scheduled to depart connected Mondays and Thursdays.

What’s the upwind similar successful Treviso?

As you mightiness expect from a metropolis successful Italy, Treviso enjoys a mild climate, with temperatures soaring successful the summertime time.

The champion clip to sojourn is during the summer months, from June to September, erstwhile the somesthesia reaches highs of 30°C successful July and August.

That said, it’s inactive a large enactment for an autumn oregon wintertime break. In October, the mercury tin apical 19°C, portion November sees highs of 13°C – inactive a batch little chilly than the UK.

What to bash successful Treviso

The main municipality of Treviso is small, but there’s inactive tons to see. The Treviso Cathedral dates backmost to the 6th century. Legend has it that the doorbell operation remains unfinished, arsenic the Venetian authorities didn’t privation it to beryllium taller than the 1 successful Venice’s St Mark’s Square.

There are besides 3 past metropolis gates: Porta Altina, Porta Santi Quaranta and Porta San Tomaso. And, if you privation a giggle caput to the Fontana delle Tette, a fountain wherever the h2o pours from a topless woman’s nipples – yes, really.

And of course, you tin portion distant an day wandering on the canals, a java successful hand.

Venturing further afield, it would beryllium remiss of you not to research the alleged Prosecco Hills.

The ‘Prosecco Road’ which runs from Conegliano to Valdobbiadene, is Italy’s oldest vino route, which winds on hilly villages and vineyards.

Book yourself a ‘Prosecco Driver’, who volition beryllium your circuit usher for the day, and tin assistance you preplan an itinerary – which, considering determination are implicit 100 wineries successful the region, tin assistance constrictive down your options. Popular wineries for tours and tastings see Ca’Salina and La Tordera.

And, beryllium definite to halt astatine Osteria Senz‘Oste, a quirky hillside farmhouse, which works connected an honour system, meaning there’s nary 1 to bid nutrient from and nary 1 to pay. You tin drawback yourself a vessel of prosecco from a vending instrumentality astatine the apical of the hill, earlier helping yourself to the charcuterie inside. There’s a motion that reads: ‘Private property. Free entree allowed to friends and to radical with communal sense, respect and responsibility.’

Elsewhere successful the Veneto region, instrumentality to the water, and kayak connected the River Sile or, for a much relaxing experience, caput retired connected a vessel cruise – immoderate of which tin instrumentality you each the mode into Venice.

There are besides beauteous villages to visit: Asolo is known arsenic ‘The City of a Hundred Horizons’ acknowledgment to its mountainous backdrop, and Castelfranco Veneto is simply a tiny walled colony cleanable for getting mislaid in.

Finally, if you’re a sports fan, you mightiness privation to caput to Stadio Monigo, location to Benneton Rugby, the city’s celebrated team. If you’re visiting during rugby play season (September to June), bargain yourself a summons and articulation the service of green-jersey wearing supporters.

This nonfiction was archetypal published connected June 15, 2024.

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