Veneto

Veneto is a small province in the north of Italy but it houses some of the greatest sights in the world. Venice is of course one of them. Venice is Romance, and you cannot help being impressed by the sheer beauty of the canals, the small houses, the boats, the people.

But do not limit your trip to Venice. Padua which has the oldest university of Europe, Verona the town of Romeo and Juliet and a very impressive Roman theatre, Asolo and Vicenza also merit a visit of several days.

In the west of Veneto the Lago di Garda is an ideal spot for holidays, close to the shores of the lake you find the Valpolicella area which produces some of Italy's best wines.

Vèneto is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Venice. Once poor and land of mass emigration, Veneto is now one of the most industrialized regions of Italy, and attracts intense fluxes of immigrants. Veneto region ranks first in the tourist sector in Italy with about 60 million tourists every year.

Veneto food and wines

There are some fine wines from the Veneto region of Italy, these include: Soave, Bardolino, Recioto, Amarone, Torcolato, Prosecco, Tocai Rosso,Garganega and Valpolicella and some fine cheeses like Asiago (from Asiago), Monte Veronese, Piave, Morlacco , Grana Padano. Garda and Veneto olive oils are other remarkable products of this region.

Geography

It is located in the northeastern part of the country, bordering on the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, the autonomous regions of Trentino-South Tyrol and Friuli Venezia Giulia and Austria. It lies between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea and is traversed by the rivers Po, Adige, Brenta and Piave.

Top Destinations in Veneto

Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Mestre, Lido di Jesolo, Padua, Chioggia, Asolo, Conegliano Veneto, Villorba, Occhiobello, Oderzo

Beaches in Veneto

Venice's Lido is an 11-mile long sandbar, home to about 20,000 residents, greatly augmented by the (mainly Italian) tourists who move in every summer.

Jesolo is one of the most important seaside resort on the Adriatic coast, just few kilometers far from Venice. Every year Jesolo accommodates over 10 millions of tourists.

Caorle: it is extremely pleasant to spend some time swimming in Caorle’s beautiful blue sea or sunbathing in its golden beaches, often awarded for being one of the cleanest beaches in Italy.

Bibione The clear and gentle Adriatic Sea, offer to Bibione a wide beach of golden sand. It is 10 km long, Bibione is also an important and fully equipped thermal resort

Eraclea is a small and tranquil paradise right in the middle of pine forests.

Notable people from Veneto

    * Titus Livius (around 59 BC - AD 17), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus.
    * Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the 1st century BC.
    * Marco Polo (September 15, 1254, Venice; January 8, 1324, Venice) was a Venetian trader and explorer
    * Andrea Mantegna(c. 1431,Isola di Carturo now Isola Mantegna (Padova) , Italy – September 13, 1506, Mantua) was the first truly Renaissance artist of Northern Italy.
    * Giorgione (c. 1477 — 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice.
    * Titian or Vecellio (c. 1488-90 – August 27, 1576) was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance.
    * Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture.
    * Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of Italian Renaissance.
    * Benedetto Marcello (born July 31 or August 1, 1686 in Venice - died July 24, 1739 in Brescia) was a composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.
    * Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678, Venice – July 28 (or 27), 1741, Vienna), nicknamed Il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist.
    * Carlo Goldoni (February 25, 1707 - February 6, 1793), Along with Luigi Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most famous name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
    * Giovanni Battista Piranesi(4th October 1720 in Mogliano Veneto (near Treviso) - 9th November 1778 in Rome) was famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione).
    * Giacomo Casanova (aka Jacques Casanova; April 2, 1725 - June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer.
    * Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.
    * Pius X (Latin: Pius PP. X) born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was born June 2, 1835 in Riese, Province of Treviso.
    * John Paul I, (in Latin Ioannes Paulus PP. I), born Albino Luciani (October 17, 1912 – September 28, 1978), reigned as pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 to September 28, 1978.
    * Federico Faggin(born 1 December 1941) is a physicist and electrical engineer considered to be one of the inventors of the microprocessor.
    * Benetton is a global upmarket clothing brand, based in Treviso, Italy.
    * Dino Meneghin (born January 18, 1950) is an Italian former basketball player. He was considered the best player for his country for decades, and, for several years, also the best in Europe.
    * Sara Simeoni(born April 19, 1953) is a former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and set two times a world record in her speciality.
    * Riccardo Patrese(born April 17, 1954) is a former Formula One (F1) racing driver, from 1977 to 1993.
    * Renzo Rosso (born 1955) is a clothing designer and founder of the Diesel clothing company.
    * Roberto Baggio (born February 18, 1967) is a legendary Italian former footballer, among the best players in the world throughout the 1990s.
    * Alessandro del Piero (born: November 9, 1974) is a footballer from Conegliano, Treviso.