the Contrada Granda with its painted facades, the castle on the hill with the view from the Prealps to the sea, Cima's altarpiece in the Duomo, the gateway to the Prosecco hills with the wine fairs in spring, and to the north Serravalle, the lakes of Revine and the pile dwellings of the Livelet
Conegliano stands where the plain of Treviso meets the first hills, between the Piave and the Prealps, and its centre is a single street: the Contrada Granda, under the arcades, with its painted facades, the Duomo hidden behind the frescoed loggia of the Scuola dei Battuti and, in the presbytery, the great altarpiece that Cima da Conegliano painted in 1493. Cima was born here, his house can be visited behind the Duomo, and in the background of his paintings there are often the hill and the walls of the city. Above the Contrada a stepped lane climbs up to the castle, on the hill of Giano: a tower remains, which houses the city museum and has a terrace at the top from which you see from the mountains to the sea. But Conegliano is above all the gateway to the Prosecco hills, which run as far as Valdobbiadene and have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019, and it was here, in 1876, that the Scuola Enologica, the school of winemaking, was founded, the first in Italy. In spring the hills turn green, in the meadows people pick bruscandoli and wild greens, and the villages open their wine fairs. To the north, half an hour's drive away, are Vittorio Veneto, with the Venetian village of Serravalle and the museum of the Great War, the lakes of Revine with the pile dwellings of the Livelet, the abbey of Follina, the castle of Cison, the Molinetto della Croda and the Caglieron caves: a weekend with children fills up without effort.
Sleeping
Stops and overnight stays
In Conegliano there is no motorhome area run by the Comune: there is the one of the Campeggio Club, an association of motorhome owners, inside a fenced storage yard a quarter of an hour on foot from the centre, open all year. The nearest free service point is at Vittorio Veneto, and towards the Prealps, on the lakes of Revine, there are two campsites: one open all year, the other from April to September.
Area camper del Campeggio Club Conegliano
via San Giovanni Bosco 30/B, 31015 Conegliano (TV)
the area of an association of motorhome owners, in a corner of its storage yard, fenced and lit, with the bays partly in the shade and electricity up to 800 watts. According to the Region's portal you can enter from 8:30 to 20:30. The gate is closed: on arrival you phone the club's number, and the person in charge arrives in a few minutes, registers you and gives you the city map. There is one toilet and one shower. Next door there is a supermarket and a park with a playground, and five minutes away a pizzeria; piazza Cima and the station are a quarter of an hour on foot. Travellers in 2025 and 2026 praise the volunteers and the security, and find the bays narrow and noisy: the road passes alongside, and at dawn the supermarket lorries arrive
The club does not publish a price list; in April and October 2026 people who stopped there paid 20 euros for 24 hours, with electricity, the toilet and the shower included · 346 3903545
the service point next to the Eni filling station in viale del Cansiglio, on the way out of Vittorio Veneto towards the Cansiglio, lit at night. According to the Region's portal you can stay by day and by night, but not camp: no tables and chairs outside. The filling station also sells LPG. The centre of Vittorio Veneto and the Museo della Battaglia are about two kilometres away. It is the place to empty and fill up with water before going up to the lakes of Revine or to Follina
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Free, both the parking and the service point · 0438 53731
strada dei Laghi 13, località Santa Maria, 31020 Revine Lago (TV)
a campsite on the north shore of the lake of Revine, at 250 metres above sea level at the foot of the Prealps, with shaded pitches, three toilet blocks with hot showers included, the bar with a minimarket, a small swimming pool and the washing machine. You can swim in the lake, and rowing boats and pedalos can be hired; a hundred metres away there is a playground. A flat path goes round the two lakes, on foot or by bicycle, and passes the archaeological park of the Livelet. The campsite writes that with a six-day stay it gives one day of car hire free. Pets are allowed
According to the campsite, the camper stop costs 25 euros for three people, with electricity extra; on a pitch you pay 9 euros for the vehicle, 8 euros for each adult, 5 euros for children from 3 to 8 and 3 euros for electricity. The tourist tax is one euro per person per night, and up to 14 you do not pay it · 0438 929110 · campingrivadoro.com
a family campsite on the lake of Lago, one of the two lakes of Revine, with pitches from 60 to 105 square metres, a swimming pool, a lido on the lake, minigolf, a shaded playground and the bar. The electricity is 6 amps, and water and drainage are only on some pitches. It is the campsite to choose for spring with children; in winter it is closed, and Riva d'Oro remains on the other lake
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According to the campsite, in 2026 the pitch cost from 15.50 to 28 euros a night depending on the size and the period, with electricity and one car, plus from 8.50 to 13 euros for each adult and from 6 to 10 euros for children from 2 to 10; up to 2 you do not pay, a dog 1 euro a day, the booking 15 euros. Spring until mid May and the end of September cost less · 347 7419577 · campingallagodilago.it
The centre of Conegliano is small and you go round it on foot, from the station to piazza Cima and up to the castle; the motorhome stays at the Campeggio Club area. From 1 October to 30 April, on weekdays, the anti-smog bans apply in the whole municipality, and only the state roads and a few other roads stay open.
You arrive by the A27 motorway from Venice to Belluno, exit Conegliano, or by the A28 from Portogruaro and Pordenone, which ends at Conegliano. Two state roads enter the city: the Pontebbana, which here is called viale Venezia and viale Italia, and the Alemagna, which climbs towards Vittorio Veneto and Cortina. The Campeggio Club area is two hundred metres from viale Italia
The anti-smog bans, from the Comune's ordinance of 2 October 2026: from 1 October 2026 to 30 April 2027, except from 20 December to 6 January, Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 19:30, in the whole territory of the municipality diesels up to Euro 4 and Euro 0 and Euro 1 petrol vehicles may not circulate. When ARPAV, the regional environment agency, declares the orange or red alert, after four or ten days of fine particulates above the limit, the ban applies every day, Saturdays and Sundays included, and Euro 5 diesels and Euro 2 petrol vehicles stop too. Viale Italia and viale Venezia, via Menarè (the Alemagna), via Innocenti and via Matteotti as far as San Vendemiano always stay open. Vehicles with foreign plates driven by people who live abroad are not affected, and guests of accommodation with a booking in hand may drive along the road that leads there. Anyone who breaks the ban pays the fine of the highway code, and the second time in two years loses their licence for fifteen to thirty days
You climb to the castle on foot, from the Contrada by the lane of the Madonna della Neve or by the calle degli Asini: the motorhome has no reason to go up the hill
The buses, urban and out of town, are run by Mobilità di Marca (MOM); in the city lines 41 to 45 run, with different timetables on school days
The train: the station, in viale Carducci, is a quarter of an hour on foot from the motorhome area, on the Venice to Udine line, which passes through Treviso, and on the one for Belluno and Calalzo, which stops at Vittorio Veneto. In front of the station, in the Pagoda at viale Carducci 20, is the IAT tourist office
LPG: the San Marco Petroli in viale Venezia, on the Pontebbana towards Treviso, and the Enercoop in via San Giuseppe, near the motorhome area; at Vittorio Veneto the Eni at the service point
For the surroundings: the Strada del Prosecco, the Prosecco wine road, starts from Conegliano and heads west through the hills to Valdobbiadene, about twenty kilometres away as the crow flies, passing San Pietro di Feletto and Refrontolo, where the Molinetto della Croda is; Susegana and the castle of San Salvatore lie to the south-west, on the Pontebbana; Vittorio Veneto to the north, on the Alemagna; the lakes of Revine, Cison di Valmarino and the abbey of Follina to the north-west, at the foot of the Prealps, by way of Tarzo or Pieve di Soligo
Seeing
Sights
The city takes half a day on foot: you climb to the castle, come down by the lane of the Madonna della Neve and walk along the Contrada Granda to Porta Monticano. Several things open only at weekends: the Sala dei Battuti and Cima's house on Saturdays and Sundays, the little church of the Madonna della Neve on Sunday afternoons. Outside the city you head north, away from the wine road: Vittorio Veneto, the Vallata with the lakes and Follina, Fregona. The Livelet opens to the public only on Sundays and public holidays from April to early November, CastelBrando can be visited with a guide on Sundays, and the castle of San Salvatore has no visiting hours. Tap a marker on the map to open its entry below.
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The castle and the Museo civico
Castle · paid entry · 45.88933, 12.29457
piazzale San Leonardo 8, 31015 Conegliano (TV)
of the castle on the hill of Giano there remains the torre della Campana, the bell tower that called the city together and announced the Council; the battlements at the top are from the nineteenth century. Since 1946 it has been the city museum, and you visit it climbing floor by floor. On the ground floor the lapidarium, with the stone lion of Porta Monticano that the French chiselled off in 1797; on the first floor the room with the fireplace shaped like a doge's cap, with the suits of armour and the six standard weights of the Republic of Venice; then the picture gallery, with a fresco by Pordenone from 1514 and the organ shutters from Cima's workshop. On the upper floors the archaeological section, with a mastodon tooth found at Monticella and two Bronze Age swords, one from the lakes of Revine. At the top there is the terrace: you see from the Prealps to the plain and, on clear days, to the sea. From the Contrada you climb on foot by the lane of the Madonna della Neve
Opening hours according to the Comune, on Mondays from 10:00 to 14:00, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 14:00 to 18:00, Thursday to Sunday and on public holidays from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00; in June, July and August on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays until 19:00. On the first Thursday of the month the morning closes at 12:30 · 3 euros, reduced 2 from 6 to 18, for university students up to 25 and over 65 · 0438 22871 · visitconegliano.it · museo@comune.conegliano.tv.it
the pedestrian lane that comes down from the castle towards the Contrada, along a stretch of the fourteenth century walls of the Castagnera. Halfway down is the little church of the Madonna della Neve, made inside the tower of the old Castagnera gate: in the room of the tower there is the Madonna del latte, the nursing Madonna, frescoed shortly after the middle of the fifteenth century, surrounded by the musician angels painted by Francesco Beccaruzzi, from Conegliano. The city's Alpini, the association of former mountain troops, restored it in 1992 and open it on Sundays. The Brolo, the vegetable garden of the friars of San Francesco along the lane, is closed to the public today
Opening hours according to the Comune, the little church on Sundays from 15:30 to 18:00, weather permitting; on other days it is opened on booking with the Alpini · 348 3214313
a little above the Contrada, at the end of the lane of the Madonna della Neve. The Franciscans came up here inside the walls in 1411; the large church was used as a hospital by Napoleon's troops and then demolished, and of the whole convent the cloister remains, restored between 1998 and 2002, white and silent. Today it is a guest house for students and conferences, the Campus San Francesco. Cima's San Pietro in trono, Saint Peter enthroned, which stood in this church, is at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
Opening hours according to the Comune, the cloister every day from 9:00 to 12:30 and from 15:00 to 17:30
the main street of the old town, via XX Settembre, piazza Cima and via Beato Marco Ongaro, all under the arcades. You enter from the west by Porta Dante, the two small towers of 1865 built for the six hundredth anniversary of Dante's birth, and walk among palaces of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with painted facades: the Scuola dei Battuti, Casa Biffis, the Monte di Pietà of 1524, today a hotel and restaurant, with little angels holding the instruments of the Passion across the whole facade, Palazzo Montalban, Casa Piutti with its corner balcony. Palazzo Sarcinelli, from 1518, at number 132, is the city's art gallery and opens only during exhibitions. Children can be given a task: count the frescoed facades, and find the lion of Saint Mark at the end of the street
it cannot be seen from the street: its facade is covered by that of the Scuola dei Battuti, and you enter passing under the nine pointed arches of the portico. It was the church of the Battuti, a confraternity that cared for pilgrims and the sick, built between 1345 and 1354 and enlarged at the end of the fifteenth century, when the presbytery, the two side aisles and the bell tower, from 1497, were added. In the presbytery the altarpiece by Cima da Conegliano, from 1493, the Madonna and Child with angels among six saints; then the Saint Francis receiving the stigmata by Francesco Beccaruzzi and, above the entrance door, a large canvas by Palma il Giovane
Opening hours according to the Comune, every day from 8:00 to 12:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00, with no visits during services
the meeting hall of the confraternity, on the floor above the portico, with a wooden ceiling and walls entirely frescoed by Francesco da Milano in the first half of the sixteenth century, from the creation of the world to the Last Judgement; the scenes on the inner wall are copied from Dürer's prints of the Passion. The facade on the street was painted at the end of the sixteenth century by Ludovico Pozzoserrato. After Napoleon the hall became a prison, in 1807, and then a shelter for soldiers, and it was restored only in the 1960s. Next to it is the Sala del Capitolo, with five Flemish tapestries from about 1560 on the stories of David and Bathsheba. It is opened by the volunteers of the Rotary Club Conegliano
Opening hours according to the Comune, on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 12:00, and in the afternoon from 15:00 to 17:00 in winter, from 16:00 to 18:00 in summer · salabattuti.conegliano@gmail.com
behind the Duomo, the house where the painter was born, grew up and came back to live until the end. It had been abandoned: Camillo Vazzoler restored it between 1975 and 1977, and on 5 June 1977 it opened as a museum. Inside there are reproductions of Cima's paintings, to look at in search of the hill and the walls of Conegliano in the backgrounds, and a small archaeological museum with Bronze Age pots found during the restoration, from the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries before Christ. On a wall a handwritten date has reappeared, "1492 adì 9 otubrio", 9 October 1492, three days before Columbus reached America. In front of the door, since 2 March 2024, Cima stands in bronze, life-size
Opening hours according to the Fondazione Cima, on Saturdays and Sundays from 15:00 to 18:00 in winter, from 16:00 to 19:00 in summer · 347 1055310 · fondazionegbcima.com · info@fondazionegbcima.com
the heart of the Contrada, on a gentle slope because it already lies on the side of the hill. To the east the eighteenth century town hall by Ottavio Scotti, with the busts of Garibaldi and Vittorio Emanuele II under the portico; to the north the Teatro Accademia, designed by Andrea Scala and inaugurated in 1869, at the top of a flight of steps with two stone sphinxes on either side, which children like. It is still the city's theatre, with its season of plays and concerts. Pietro Germi shot some scenes of The Birds, the Bees and the Italians here, in 1966
the gate at the end of the Contrada towards the east, mentioned as early as 1309, towards the borgo della Madonna and the Monticano river. Outside, in the niche, is the lion of Saint Mark frescoed by Pordenone, with its hind paws on the lagoon and its front paws setting off to conquer the mainland; inside, a copy of the stone lion that the French chiselled off, the original of which is in the castle museum. A few steps away the calle Scoto de Scoti climbs towards the castle, which everyone calls the calle degli Asini, the lane of the donkeys: tradition says that in 1231 the defeated men of Treviso had to carry the victorious men of Conegliano on their shoulders all the way up to the castle, like so many donkeys. It is the story that the Dama Vivente re-enacts in piazza Cima
the oldest school of winemaking in Italy, founded in 1876, a kilometre and a half south-west of the centre. Its first director was Giovanni Battista Cerletti, who with Antonio Carpenè had fought for wine schools to be founded in Italy. It is a real school, with students, vineyards, a winery and the University of Padua next door: you do not go in without an appointment. On the first floor, since 2016, the Museo Manzoni tells the story of Luigi Manzoni, headmaster and geneticist, the man behind the vine crosses that bear his name, with the microscopes, the cameras of the early twentieth century and the original slides. Ask to see the Aula Magna, the great hall painted by Antonio Maria Morera, too
Opening hours according to the Comune, the museum can be visited only by booking by phone, Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 13:00 · 0438 61524 · cerletti.edu.it · tvis00800e@istruzione.it
seven and a half kilometres from Conegliano, on a hill above the Piave, one of the best preserved castles in the Veneto. It was founded in 1245 by the counts of Collalto, who governed their county from here until Napoleon arrived; in the First World War, close to the Piave front, it was almost destroyed, and count Odoardo rebuilt it. It still belongs to the Collalto family, and it has no visiting hours: since 2018 it has opened for weddings, events and some cultural initiatives. You look at it from outside, going up the road on the hill
a stone and wood mill from 1630, leaning against the rock in the valley of the Lierza, at the foot of a twelve metre waterfall; it ground its last flour in 1953, and the Comune of Refrontolo bought it in 1991 and restored it. Inside you visit the millstone and the rooms of the miller's family; the wheel turns only on special days, and on opening days you can buy the maize flour ground there. A short path leads towards the waterfall. There is a large car park for cars and coaches a few steps away. Dogs do not go into the mill, and you do not eat inside. With a weather alert you do not go: the stream swells quickly. From Conegliano it is fourteen kilometres
Opening hours according to the association that runs it, in 2026, on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:30 to 12:00 and from 15:30 to 18:00, on Sundays and public holidays from 10:30 to 18:00; the hours change with the volunteers available and with weather alerts · 4 euros from 14 years up, for the inside of the mill and the waterfall path; the open space in front of the waterfall is free all year · 0438 894405 · molinettodellacroda.it · info@molinettodellacroda.it
the abbey of Santa Maria, known as Sanavalle, in the centre of Follina, twenty-three kilometres from Conegliano. There was already a monastery in 1127; around the middle of the twelfth century it passed to the Cistercians, and of them there remain the basilica, Romanesque and Gothic, and the cloister. Today it is the village parish church, entrusted to the Servants of Mary, and has the title of minor basilica. On the high altar is the Madonna del Sacro Calice, a very old statue that has always been venerated. It can be visited outside mass times
the castle above the village of Cison, at 370 metres, on the rock where the Romans controlled the via Claudia Augusta. It belonged to the da Camino family, then Venice gave it to Marin Faliero and later to the condottieri Brandolino da Bagnacavallo and Gattamelata; the Brandolini kept it until 1959, then it passed to the Salesians, and since 1997 it has been a hotel. It is visited with the museum educators: the halls, the walls, the old weapons, and the old prisons of "Potere e giustizia", power and justice, with the trial, the torture chamber and the execution told in three cells, to be weighed up with the youngest children
Opening hours according to the castle, the visits office opens on Sundays, from April to September from 10:30 to 12:00 and from 14:30 to 18:30, from October to March from 10:30 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00; the guided tour leaves when there are at least four people. On other days you book · 13 euros route A, one hour; 15 euros route B, an hour and a quarter, with the costumes and the church of San Martino. Free up to 5, half price from 6 to 11 · 0438 9761 · castelbrando.it · visite@castelbrando.it
two small lakes at the end of the Vallata, the lake of Lago to the west and that of Santa Maria to the east, joined by the canale delle Barche, between the municipalities of Revine Lago and Tarzo. A cycle and footpath loop of about eight kilometres goes round the two basins, partly along the shores, with a floating walkway from the beach at Lago to the Livelet and several picnic areas. Half an hour on foot from the Livelet, above Lago, there is giant bench number 181, since 2021; on the opposite shore, at Fratta di Tarzo, since summer 2025 there has been the winged lion that the artist Martalar built with the wood of the trees felled by storm Vaia, twenty minutes from the Livelet
an open-air museum on the shore of the lake of Lago, with reconstructed pile dwellings like those of the villages that stood here between 6,000 and 3,500 years ago, from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. You go into the pile dwellings only with the guides, in groups of twenty-five, and meanwhile there are workshops on life at the time. There is a playground, the picnic tables and barbecues are booked with the ticket; dogs are allowed on a lead. The paths are fine with a pushchair and a wheelchair. On the spring public holidays (Easter Monday, 25 April, 1 May, 2 June) there are no timed tours, but the guides wait in the pile dwellings. The municipal car park is free for park visitors, with the pass you ask for at the ticket office. On opening days the park answers on 329 2605713
Opening hours according to the park, open to the public on Sundays and public holidays from April to early November, from 10:00 to 18:00, in July and August until 19:00; in 2026 the last opening is on 1 November. The guided tours leave every hour, at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00 and 17:00, and on Sundays there is no need to book. Monday to Saturday, from February to November, only for booked groups · 6 euros, reduced 5 from 4 to 17 and over 65, free under 4; 14 euros two adults with one child, 18 euros two adults with two children. It includes the guided tour and the day's workshops · 327 854 8951 · parcolivelet.it · segreteria@parcolivelet.it
Vittorio Veneto was born in 1866 by joining two towns, Ceneda and Serravalle, and took the name of the king; the "Veneto" arrived in 1923. Serravalle, to the north, is a Venetian village enclosed in the gorge of the Meschio, fifteen kilometres from Conegliano. In piazza Flaminio is the Loggia della Comunità, built between 1462 and 1476, with its facade frescoed by Dario da Treviso: today it is the Museo del Cenedese, with the archaeology of the area from the Neolithic to the Lombards, the frescoes and, in the entrance loggia, the lion of Saint Mark painted by Francesco da Milano. Towards the south gate the oratory of the Battuti, with fifteenth century frescoes, and in piazza Minucci the Palazzo Minucci De Carlo
Opening hours according to the museum, the Museo del Cenedese on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00 from 1 October to 31 May, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 16:00 to 18:00 from 1 June to 30 September; closed on 1 January, at Easter, on 25 and 26 December · the museum 5 euros, reduced 3 from 6 to 17, over 65 and for families of at least four people, free up to 5. The single ticket for the five city museums, with the Museo della Battaglia, 10 euros, reduced 7 · 0438 57103 · museivittorioveneto.it · musei@comune.vittorio-veneto.tv.it
the cathedral of Santa Maria Nova, on the other bank of the Meschio from piazza Flaminio, rebuilt in 1779 by Domenico Schiavi. On the high altar there is an altarpiece by Titian, the Madonna in glory with Saints Andrew and Peter and, in the background, the apostles fishing, which the community commissioned from him in 1542 and which was finished in 1547. There are also the shutters of the old organ by Francesco da Milano, from about 1528, and a Callido organ from 1822, which is played in concerts
piazza Giovanni Paolo I, 31029 Vittorio Veneto (TV)
at Ceneda, the southern part of Vittorio Veneto, twelve kilometres from Conegliano, in the sixteenth century palace of the Comunità. It is the museum of the battle fought from 24 October to 3 November 1918, which gave the city its name; it grew out of the collection of Luigi Marson, one of the "ragazzi del '99", the boys born in 1899 who were sent to the front, opened on 2 November 1938 and was redone between 2012 and 2014. On the ground floor you walk inside a reconstructed trench, narrow and winding; on the first floor life under the occupation, between November 1917 and October 1918, with Marson's armoury; at the top the final battle. On the square is the eighteenth century cathedral of Ceneda, with the fountain of 1555 and the monument to John Paul I, Albino Luciani, who was bishop here from 1958 to 1969
Opening hours according to the museum, Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00; also open on Mondays when they are public holidays. Closed on 25 and 26 December, on 1 January and at Easter; tickets are sold until half an hour before closing · 8 euros, reduced 5 from 6 to 17, over 65 and for families of at least four people; free up to 5 · 0438 57695 · museobattaglia.it · info@museobattaglia.it
a gorge carved by the Caglieron stream, with waterfalls about ten metres high and caves, partly natural and partly sandstone quarries, the "piera dolza", the soft stone, dug from the sixteenth century with the columns left slanting to hold up the vault. The walk is a loop of about a kilometre, an hour, on wooden walkways, steps and slopes, damp and slippery even in summer: no pushchairs, a baby carrier backpack is better, and shoes with grip. Dogs are allowed on a short lead. At the end the little mill and the stonecutter's hamlet; at the entrance the bar, the visitor centre and picnic tables along the stream. The car parks near the entrance are paid, and for motorhomes they cost 3 euros an hour; the free ones are at Piai, 700 metres away. From Conegliano it is eighteen kilometres
Opening hours according to the Pro Loco of Fregona, which runs the park, open all year; from 1 October 2026 you enter from 9:30, with last entry at 16:30 on weekdays and on the days before public holidays and at 17:00 on public holidays. No booking, except for groups of more than twenty people · 4 euros, free for children up to and including 12 · 328 8117359 · visitfregona.it · caglieron@visitfregona.it
In Conegliano spring belongs to wine: from March to June the villages of the hills take turns to open their fairs, and one is at Ogliano, a hamlet of the city. In odd years, in June, piazza Cima becomes a draughts board for the Dama Vivente, the living draughts game. Summer brings crafts to Cison di Valmarino and wines to the castle, autumn spit-roast meat and chestnuts, and winter the Christmas village in the square and the big exhibition at Palazzo Sarcinelli.
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The winter exhibition at Palazzo Sarcinelli
from mid October to the end of March or the beginning of April
every year Palazzo Sarcinelli, on the Contrada Granda, hosts a big paying exhibition, produced by Artika: in recent years De Chirico, Egypt, Banksy. From 21 October 2026 to 4 April 2027 it is "Ritratti di donna tra Hayez, Boldini e Carrà", portraits of women, more than seventy paintings from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, with Picasso, Sironi and Pellizza da Volpedo. It takes about an hour, Wednesday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 19:00, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 19:00; it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, on 24 and 25 December, and open on 8, 26, 30 and 31 December, on 1 and 6 January. Tickets are bought at the exhibition or on midaticket.it
on now
5-8Dec
Stelle a Natale at Cison di Valmarino
the first two weekends of December
the Christmas market of the Pro Loco of Cison, the same one that runs Artigianato Vivo. In 2026, the twenty-third edition, on Saturday 5 and Saturday 12 December from 14:00 to 19:00, on Sunday 6, Monday 7, Tuesday 8 and Sunday 13 December from 10:00 to 19:00
5-8 Dec · 12-13 Dec
This year's dates are not out yet
Christmas in Conegliano
from the end of November to Epiphany
the Christmas village in piazza Cima, with Father Christmas's house and the food chalets, the ice rink, the big wheel in front of the Alpini steps and the lights in the city
Primavera del Prosecco Superiore
from mid March to mid June
fifteen wine fairs, one for each village and one after the other, organised by the Pro Loco associations of the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene: the producers' stands, tastings, the village cooking, guided tours. Near Conegliano there are the "Rive di Ogliano" fair in the former primary school at via Marcorà 43, at Ogliano, which in 2026 ran from 23 April to 3 May, open in the evening on weekdays and all day on Sundays, then Refrontolo, Cison di Valmarino, Vittorio Veneto, Corbanese and, last of all, San Pietro di Feletto. In 2026 the fairs ran from 13 March to 14 June, and on three days at the end of April and the beginning of May a tourist minibus linked them
Dama Vivente
a Sunday in early June, in odd years
the re-enactment of the Dama Castellana: a costume parade through the centre, then in piazza Cima, on a chequered floor, the game of draughts with people in costume instead of pieces, which recalls the victory of the men of Conegliano over those of Treviso in 1231. More than three hundred people in costume, the drums and the flag throwers. After the 2025 edition it became a biennial event: it was not held in 2026, it returns in 2027, and the dates have not yet been announced
Artigianato Vivo at Cison di Valmarino
mid August
craftsmen at work in the village of Cison, with workshops for anyone who wants to try. In 2026, the forty-fifth edition, from 8 to 16 August, on weekdays from 17:00 to 23:30, on 9, 15 and 16 August from 10:00 to 23:30
Le Notti del Vino at the castle
a weekend at the end of August
two evenings of wine tasting at the castle of Conegliano, with the wines of about thirty Veneto wineries
Spiedo Gigante at Pieve di Soligo
from the end of September to mid October
the spit-roast festival in the square of Pieve di Soligo, held since 1956, which in 2017 entered the Guinness World Records: the stand with the spiedo of the Alta Marca, the competition of spits between teams of cooks, music in the evening and an afternoon of stories for children. In 2026, the sixty-ninth edition, from 26 September to 11 October
Festa dei Marroni at Combai
October, at weekends
at Combai, a hamlet of Miane, the festival of the Combai chestnut, with chestnut dishes, walks in the hills and workshops. In 2026, the eighty-second edition, from 9 October to 1 November
Remember
Useful tips
The anti-smog bans stop diesel motorhomes up to Euro 4 Monday to Friday, from 8:30 to 19:30, until 30 April 2027, in the whole municipality except the state roads and a few other roads; during the Christmas holidays, from 20 December to 6 January, they do not apply. With the orange or red alert they apply every day and to Euro 5 vehicles too: check the ARPAV bulletin the day before you arrive
Phone the Campeggio Club area first, because the gate is closed and there are about fifteen bays; for the Primavera del Prosecco and for the weekends in December it is best to call a few days ahead
In spring the campsites on the lakes are the base for the hills: the Lago di Lago opens on 1 April, Riva d'Oro is open all year, and the free service point at Vittorio Veneto is on the way
The wine fairs are in the evening: on weekdays they open at around 18:30 or 19:00, and at lunchtime they usually open only at weekends
Many things open only at weekends: the Sala dei Battuti and Cima's house on Saturdays and Sundays, the little church of the Madonna della Neve on Sunday afternoons, the Museo del Cenedese from Friday, the Livelet on Sundays from April to early November, CastelBrando on Sundays with a guide. A Saturday and Sunday in spring are the right time
With children: the terrace at the top of the castle tower, the Livelet with the pile dwellings and the workshops, the trench in the Museo della Battaglia, the walkways of the Caglieron caves (without a pushchair), the ride round the lakes of Revine by bicycle
In the recipe the source does not say how much stock is needed, how long the rice cooks or how much Prosecco goes into the second part of the cooking: taste the rice
Conegliano · part two
and then?
What to do, what to taste, and where to go tomorrow.
Experiences from here
What we did starting from here, ordered by driving time.
Conegliano drinks Prosecco: Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, made from the glera grape on the hills between here and Valdobbiadene, with the Rive, the grapes from the steepest vineyards of a single village, and at the top Cartizze, 107 hectares on the hills of Valdobbiadene. Towards the Cansiglio, at Fregona, Sarmede and Cappella Maggiore, they make Torchiato di Fregona, a sweet wine from glera, verdiso and boschera, with the grapes left to dry for a long time on racks and the wine at least two years in small casks. At table the Marca trevigiana, the province of Treviso, serves the spiedo of the hill osterie, meat on the spit turned for hours in front of the fire, radicchio rosso di Treviso, sopa coada, a baked soup of pigeon and bread, the cheeses, from fresh Casatella trevigiana to Montasio, mushrooms and in autumn the chestnuts of Combai; and tiramisù. But the season to look for here is spring, when wild greens are picked in the meadows and along the hedges: bruscandoli, the shoots of wild hops, for risotto and omelette, sparasine, wild asparagus, s'ciopet, the bladder campion, and radicèle, the dandelion, and on the plain the white asparagus of Cimadolmo arrives. The greens are eaten in the trattorias: picking them yourself means knowing how to recognise them.
Distances and times by road, measured with OSRM on OpenStreetMap data.
Looking
Conegliano in photographs
30 shots from our visit. Tap one to see it large.
the hills with the vineyards and the Prealps seen from the castle of Conegliano, at the end of SeptemberPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the castle of Conegliano with the tower of the Museo civico among the cypresses of the gardenPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the battlemented tower of the castle, home of the Museo civico, under the September skyPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0a room of the picture gallery of the Museo civico, inside the castle towerPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the great fireplace and a suit of armour in a room of the Museo civico in the castlePhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Conegliano and the plain seen from the castle hillPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the castle garden seen from the tower, with the new town and the hills beyondPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0villas and cypresses on the castle hill, with the Prealps of Treviso in the backgroundPhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the little church of Sant'Orsola and its bell tower on the open space of the castlePhoto: Nxr-at, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the lane of the Madonna della Neve coming down from the castle between the walls, with the city beyondPhoto: MarcoTosato, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the fourteenth century Carrara walls along the path that climbs to the castlePhoto: MarcoTosato, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0via XX Settembre, the Contrada Granda, with the arcades and the frescoed palacesPhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the frescoed facade of Palazzo Piutti in the Contrada GrandaPhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the frescoed facade of the Scuola dei Battuti above the portico of the Duomo, with the bell towerPhoto: Basilicofresco, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the sixteenth century frescoes on the facade of the Battuti and the bell tower of the DuomoPhoto: Rosalina_Sossai, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Sala dei Battuti, above the Duomo, with the frescoed walls and the coffered ceilingPhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Adoration of the Shepherds by Ludovico Pozzoserrato, frescoed in the Sala dei BattutiPhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the house where Cima da Conegliano was born, in via Cima, below the castlePhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Teatro Accademia in piazza Cima, the city's main squarePhoto: Rollroboter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the clock tower and the Loggia of Serravalle in piazza Flaminio, at Vittorio Veneto, in 2007Photo: Mauro Girotto, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0the Meschio between the houses of Serravalle, with flowers on the balustrade, on a day in MayPhoto: Petar Milošević, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0the square of Ceneda, at Vittorio Veneto, seen from the bell tower of the DuomoPhoto: Ceneda è bella, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the shell cases of a production cycle on display at the Museo della Battaglia in Vittorio VenetoPhoto: ragagnin fabio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the cloister of the abbey of Follina and the bell tower, seen from the portico in AugustPhoto: Amidavegre, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the facade of the basilica of Santa Maria di Follina at the top of the stepsPhoto: Amidavegre, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0CastelBrando with its battlemented walls on the hill above Cison di ValmarinoPhoto: Rino Porrovecchio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0the houses of Cison di Valmarino with CastelBrando on the hill, on a summer dayPhoto: Marek.69, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Molinetto della Croda at Refrontolo, with the wheel and the waterfall of the LierzaPhoto: Chfono, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0one of the lakes of Revine among the mountains, with reeds on the shorePhoto: Lglukgl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the castle of San Salvatore on the hill of Susegana, seen from the south sidePhoto: Alemasetto, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
