the water city of the Sile, the Buranelli and the Isola della Pescheria, piazza dei Signori, Tomaso da Modena at San Nicolò, the Venetian walls, the tiramisù born here, and half an hour away Castelfranco with Giorgione's altarpiece and Venice by train
Treviso is a water city about half an hour by train from Venice: the Sile flows beneath its walls, and through the centre run the branches of the Botteniga, the Cagnan and the canal of the Buranelli, with the mill wheels still turning under the houses and, in the middle of the water, the Isola della Pescheria, the fish market island. The centre lies inside the sixteenth-century walls, with the gates of San Tomaso and Santi Quaranta, and you go round it on foot in a day: piazza dei Signori with the Palazzo dei Trecento, the Calmaggiore under the arcades as far as the Duomo, and the painted facades that gave the city the name urbs picta, the painted city. The city's painter is Tomaso da Modena: at San Nicolò, in the chapter house of the Dominicans, he painted a friar with spectacles on his nose, and his frescoes of Saint Ursula are in the Museo di Santa Caterina. At the Beccherie, a step from piazza dei Signori, tiramisù was born. Spring is the good season: you cycle along the Restera, the towpath of the Sile, as far as the graveyard of the burci at Casier, the Oasi di Cervara reopens in March, and on the plates come Badoere asparagus and bruscandoli. Around about, between twenty and twenty-five kilometres away, are Castelfranco Veneto, with its castle and Giorgione's altarpiece, and Palladio's Villa Emo.
Sleeping
Stops and overnight stays
In Treviso the Comune has two areas for motorhomes, free, both outside the walls, a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes on foot from the centre: they have water and emptying but no electricity, and you stop for at most 48 hours in a row. Anyone who wants electricity, showers and a quiet pitch goes to Quinto di Treviso, to the private area near the Sile, linked to the city by a cycle path.
Area camper dello stadio Tenni
via Castello d'Amore 7, 31100 Treviso (TV)
the motorhome bays in the large car park between the Omobono Tenni stadium and the railway, lit and in the shade of the trees, next to a children's playground, with water filling and emptying. It is the area closest to the centre: Porta San Tomaso, the north-east gate of the walls, is a few hundred metres away, and piazza dei Signori a quarter of an hour on foot. In the same street is the headquarters of the Polizia Locale, the municipal police. In 2026 travellers found it quiet at night and full at weekends: in May there were about thirty motorhomes, some outside the reserved bays too. In January 2026 the grey water drain and the chemical toilet drain were in the same manhole, and the bays are not level
the Comune's area in the Fiera district, east of the centre, shaded by trees and lit, with water filling and emptying. Two hundred metres away there is a supermarket, and nearby a launderette. To the centre you walk, a kilometre and a half, or take MOM's urban bus 3. The electricity post is reserved for the funfair people: the Prato della Fiera, where in October the funfair of the Fiere di San Luca arrives, is less than a kilometre away. The railway passes nearby, but at night no trains run
a private area in the countryside west of the city, open all year round, with automatic entry and exit at any hour. The pitches are five metres by ten, on gravel, lit and with cameras, each with its own electricity post; there are toilets with hot showers and a picnic area. You book on the website. A route of 1.3 km, all on cycle paths, leads to the Treviso-Ostiglia cycle path, which goes into the centre of Treviso one way and towards the Sile, Badoere and Castelfranco the other: it is the stop for those travelling with bicycles
Treviso is covered on foot inside the walls, and the motorhome stays outside, in one of the two areas of the Comune. From 1 October to 30 April, except during the Christmas holidays, the anti-smog bans apply across the whole municipality, and on smog alert days Euro 5 diesels stop too.
You arrive by the A27 motorway Venice-Belluno, exits Treviso Sud and Treviso Nord; anyone arriving on the A4, from Milan or Trieste, joins it at Mestre. From Mestre you can also come by the Terraglio, the SS13 main road that runs straight for about twenty kilometres. The southern bypass, regional road 53, passes south of the city and is outside the anti-smog bans; for the two areas of the Comune you head east, towards the Fiera district and Porta San Tomaso
The anti-smog bans, from the Comune's ordinance of 30 September 2026: from 1 October to 16 December 2026 and from 7 January to 30 April 2027, across the whole municipality except the southern bypass, Monday to Friday, working days, from 8:30 to 19:30, diesels up to Euro 4, Euro 0 and 1 petrol vehicles and Euro 0 and 1 LPG or methane vehicles may not circulate. When ARPAV declares an orange or red alert, the bans apply every day, public holidays included, at the same hours, and Euro 5 diesels and Euro 2 petrol and LPG vehicles stop too. From 17 December to 6 January there are no bans. Allowed to circulate are vehicles with at least three people on board, if they have four seats or more, those with foreign number plates driven by people who live abroad, and anyone going to or coming from a hotel or other accommodation on the day of arrival and departure, with a copy of the booking. The day's level can be read on the Comune's website and in the TrevisoApp, or asked by phone on 0422 658387
The car-free days: inside the walls cars may not circulate (in 2025 from 9:00 to 18:00) on 1 November and 26 December 2026, 1 January, 7 February, 29 March and 11 April 2027
Inside the walls a motorhome has no reason to go: you pass through the gates, the access points, some streets are limited traffic zones, and the bays are for cars, paid from 8:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 20:00 on working days and from 14:30 to 20:00 on public holidays. Round the walls runs the PUT, the ring road from which the two areas of the Comune are reached
The city buses are run by MOM, Mobilità di Marca: according to the Region, urban line 3 passes the via Boccaccio area. The ticket can also be bought on board, by holding a contactless card or your phone to the validator, or with the MOMUP app
To Venice by train: from Treviso Centrale station, south of the centre, regional trains leave for Venezia Mestre and Venezia Santa Lucia, and the motorhome stays at the area. From the Tenni stadium area to the station you cross the centre on foot, a kilometre and a half
LPG: among the filling stations in the city, the IP at via Livenza 1, in the Fiera district, near the via Boccaccio area, and the Tamoil at viale Europa 22, to the west; to the north, the Eurogas in via delle Grave at Villorba
For the surroundings: the Parco del Sile follows the river east, to Casier and Casale sul Sile, and west, towards the springs, through Quinto and Morgano, with the Treviso-Ostiglia cycle path. Castelfranco Veneto is to the west, twenty-five kilometres along the Postumia, regional road 53; Asolo, Possagno and the villas of Maser and Fanzolo to the north-west, towards Montebelluna; Conegliano and the Prosecco hills to the north, on the Pontebbana, the SS13, or by the A27; Venice to the south, by the Terraglio or by train
Seeing
Sights
The centre takes a day on foot, starting from piazza dei Signori and ending the round on the Restera; a second day is needed for the Sile by bicycle or for Castelfranco and Villa Emo. Before setting off it is worth putting the days in order: the Musei Civici close on Mondays, the Collezione Salce opens only Friday to Sunday, the Oasi di Cervara only at weekends from March to November, and Villa Emo, because of the restoration, can be visited only by booking. Up to 18 the Museo Bailo is free. Tap a marker on the map to open its entry below.
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Piazza dei Signori and the Palazzo dei Trecento
Square · free entry · 45.66586, 12.24558
piazza dei Signori, 31100 Treviso (TV)
the city's square, with the palaces of the old government: the Palazzo dei Trecento, where the council of three hundred met and where the town council meets today, the Palazzo del Podestà, today the Prefecture, and the Palazzo Pretorio. The 1944 bombing damaged the Palazzo dei Trecento so badly that demolishing it was considered: it was restored and rebuilt where it had collapsed, and a row of bricks set further back still separates the old walls from the new ones, something children enjoy looking for. Under its loggia, in a glass case, is the original bust of the Fontana delle Tette. Behind the palace, in piazza Ancilotto, is the restaurant Le Beccherie, open since 1939, where tiramisù appeared on the dessert menu in 1972: it is still a restaurant, and serves it with the recipe of the time
the fountain of the breasts, made in 1559 by the Venetian governor Alvise Da Ponte after a drought: a statue of a woman from whose breasts, for three days whenever a new governor arrived, flowed white wine on one side and red wine on the other, free for everyone, until the fall of the Republic in 1797. The one you see, in the courtyard of palazzo Zignoli, is a copy from 1989; the original is under the loggia of the Palazzo dei Trecento. You get in through the arcade that leads from the Calmaggiore to calle del Podestà
Opening hours according to the Regione Veneto, the courtyard is open every day from 8:00 to 19:00
the main street of the centre, all under arcades, from piazza dei Signori to piazza del Duomo, with shops and houses with frescoed facades. The people of Treviso say "the Calmaggiore", without "via". It is the street to walk even in the rain
the cathedral of San Pietro, with its seven domes, rebuilt from 1760 to a design by Giordano Riccati, with the facade finished in 1836. The piece to look for is Titian's Annunciation, from 1520, in the Malchiostro chapel, frescoed by Pordenone. Since February 2026 the chapel has been a building site, for the restoration of Pordenone's frescoes, expected to take eight months, and Titian's altarpiece was on loan to the Pinacoteca of Ancona until 26 September 2026, and the diocese has not yet announced its return to Treviso: at the entrance to the chapel there is a life-size copy. Since September 2026 the Assumption by Domenico Capriolo, restored, has been back on its altar. Under the presbytery is the eleventh-century crypt, with its forest of small columns, which you visit by going through the Museo Diocesano, in the Canoniche Vecchie next to the Duomo, at via Canoniche 9: inside are the frescoed martyrdom of Thomas Becket and the silver statue of San Liberale, the patron saint. The museum opens on request through the Centro Guide Turistiche, on 342 6138992
Opening hours according to the Regione Veneto, in 2026, Monday to Saturday from 7:15 to 12:00 and from 15:30 to 18:30, on Sundays from 8:00 to 13:00 and from 15:30 to 20:00. The crypt can be seen only from the Museo Diocesano, which opens on request, and on the first Friday of the month at 16:30 with a guided tour · the church is free; the guided tour of the Museo Diocesano on the first Friday of the month 8 euros, 5 up to 10, to be booked at least seven days ahead at eventi@guideveneto.it · 0422 545720
the great church of the Dominicans, between Romanesque and Gothic, begun in 1303 with the money of Niccolò Boccassino, the friar from Treviso who became Pope Benedict XI. On the columns of the nave are fourteenth-century frescoes, and on one of them the saints painted by Tomaso da Modena around 1352, among them Saint Jerome in his study. In the right aisle there is a huge San Cristoforo, Saint Christopher, painted by Antonio da Treviso around 1410: for children that is enough. In the apse the altarpiece begun by Fra Marco Pensaben and finished by Girolamo Savoldo in 1521, and the Callido organ
Opening hours according to the parish, on weekdays from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 16:30 to 18:00, but in the afternoon it may be closed without notice; on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 16:30 to 19:30. On Sunday mornings tourist visits are not allowed · 0422 548626 · sannicolotreviso.it
next to San Nicolò, inside the bishop's Seminary, which occupies the old Dominican convent with its cloisters. In the chapter house, in 1352, Tomaso da Modena painted forty illustrious Dominicans, each at his desk: one reading, one writing, one meditating, and Cardinal Nicholas of Rouen reading with a magnifying glass. Cardinal Hugh of Provence wears spectacles: it is the oldest known image of a person wearing glasses, and children find him on their own. It is a working seminary: you go in silence, and it is best to phone first
Opening hours according to the Regione Veneto, every day from 7:30 to 12:30, entering through the Seminary · 0422 324800 · seminario@diocesitv.it
the walls that Venice had built from 1509 by Fra Giovanni Giocondo, of brick on an earth rampart, with bastions for artillery, and which in 1511 held out against the siege of the League of Cambrai. They still enclose the centre, and the roads that go round the city run alongside them. There are three gates: Porta Santi Quaranta, to the west, from 1516, which the governor Andrea Vendramin had named after himself, until the Council of Ten had the inscription chiselled off, and the marks can still be seen; Porta San Tomaso, to the north-east; and Porta Altinia, to the south. From Porta Santi Quaranta starts borgo Cavour, with the Museo Bailo
the city's twentieth-century museum, in the old convent of the Scalzi, closed in 2003 and reopened in 2015 with a redesigned facade, of simple lines. Inside there are about 340 works from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and the largest collection in the world of Arturo Martini, the sculptor born in Treviso, with the works of his friend Gino Rossi. Booking is not required, and there are lockers for backpacks
Opening hours according to the Musei Civici, in 2026, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00; closed on Mondays · according to the Musei Civici, in October 2026, 10 euros with the exhibition on Nino Springolo, which closes on 1 November; reduced 8 over 65 and for university students; free up to 18. With the Museo di Santa Caterina and its exhibitions 19 euros, reduced 16; for a family, two adults and up to two children, 26 euros for the two museums · 0422 658951 · museicivicitreviso.it · info@museicivicitreviso.it
the canal between the houses, with the little footbridge from which the city's photograph is taken: the water flowing under the balconies and the arcades. The name comes from the merchants of Burano, who had their warehouses here and the fish store for the nearby fish market. On the canal is the house of the writer Giovanni Comisso, and a cut-out figure by Mario Martinelli tells the story of the wreck of his boat, with the writer on board
a small island in the middle of the Cagnan, made in 1856 by joining three islets, linked to the banks by two bridges, where the fish market is held in the morning: the covered stalls date from 2002. Next to it, towards the San Leonardo district, the Molinetto, built where there was a mill, still keeps its wheel turning with the water: it is the place where children stop. In the afternoon, with the market closed, the island is a quiet little square
Opening hours according to the Regione Veneto, the fish market every morning Tuesday to Saturday
the open loggia of 1276, where the nobles and knights met to talk and play chess, and where the common people could not enter. Of brick, with a great column in the middle holding up the roof, it was frescoed all over: the coats of arms and a few scenes from the Roman de Troie, the story of Troy, remain. Bombed in 1944, it was rebuilt with the original materials, and today small markets and concerts are held there
the largest collection of advertising posters in Italy, almost 50,000, started by Nando Salce, an accountant from Treviso who bought the first one at eighteen, in 1895, and kept them all in the attic of his house until 1962. They are shown in rotation, with changing exhibitions: in autumn 2026, at the San Gaetano site, the fairs and the sketches for the film posters of Renato Casaro. The second site is in the church of Santa Margherita, in via Reggimento Italia Libera, where Abbot Bailo found in 1882-83 the frescoes of Saint Ursula by Tomaso da Modena, which are now at Santa Caterina: here you see a projected reconstruction of them, with an immersive installation. For children it is the easiest museum in the city
Opening hours according to the Ministry of Culture, in 2026, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:30; closed Monday to Thursday. The two sites have the same hours · according to the Ministry of Culture, 10 euros, reduced 2 · 0422 591936 · drm-ven.collezionesalce@cultura.gov.it
the museum of the ancient city, in the fourteenth-century convent of the Servites with two cloisters, built where the palace of the da Camino family stood, which gave hospitality to Dante. In the deconsecrated church is the cycle of Saint Ursula by Tomaso da Modena, from about 1350, detached from the church of Santa Margherita: the story of Princess Ursula and her companions. The frescoes on the walls of Santa Caterina were found under the plaster by the restorer Mario Botter after the bombing of 1944. On the first floor the picture gallery, with Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Bellini and Titian; on the ground floor and underground the archaeological section, from prehistory to the Romans. Until 15 January 2027 there is the exhibition on contemporary African art, included in the ticket
Opening hours according to the Musei Civici, in 2026, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00; closed on Mondays · according to the Musei Civici, until 15 January 2027, with the exhibition La materia dei sogni, 13 euros, reduced 10; with the Museo Bailo 19 euros, reduced 16; for a family, two adults and up to two children, 26 euros for the two museums · 0422 658954 · museicivicitreviso.it · info@museicivicitreviso.it
the gate in the north-east of the walls, rebuilt in the sixteenth century, when Venice reimagined Treviso as a modern fortress city. From here, following the walls south, you reach the ponte Garibaldi, where the Restera begins
the Sile is a spring-fed river, with clear green water that rises from the plain. The Restera is the bank along which horses once towed with ropes the burci, the cargo barges coming up from Venice: from the ponte Garibaldi, in viale Jacopo Tasso, you go down onto the dirt track and follow the river among the willows, on foot or by bicycle, with swans, coots and little grebes. It is all flat, and can be done with small children: the track continues towards Silea and Casier, and the Parco del Sile takes it all the way to the lagoon, at Portegrandi
along the Restera, five kilometres from Treviso, in the bend where the Sile parts from the Sil Morto, lie the wrecks of the burci, the great flat-bottomed wooden boats that carried grain on the river, sunk and silted up among the reeds. You pass over the water on a wooden boardwalk, and children count the hulls that stick out. The Parco del Sile suggests as handy places to leave the car and take the bicycle the Fiera di Treviso, Villapendola di Casier, the port of Casier and the port of Silea. Further on, towards Casale sul Sile and Roncade, since 28 August 2026 a stretch of the towpath has been closed because of the danger of falling trees, until the mayor reopens it
via Cornarotta 50, 31055 Santa Cristina di Quinto di Treviso (TV)
a small reserve of 25 hectares, about ten kilometres west of Treviso, on the springs of the Sile, around a mill documented from 1325 and restored in the 1990s. You walk on wooden boardwalks through the wet woodland, the pools where the water wells up from the ground and the reed beds, and there is one of the largest heronries in the Veneto, with grey herons, night herons and little egrets, and storks. On Saturdays and Sundays the guides run activities, and the one with the owls is the reason to go with children. You get there from provincial road 17 between Quinto di Treviso and Badoere
Opening hours according to the oasis, in 2026, from March to the end of November on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 18:30, with the ticket office open until 18:00; closed in bad weather. Groups and schools every day, booking by phone · according to the oasis, in 2026, 6 euros, 10 euros with the activities and the owls; the family ticket with the activities, with at least two children from 5 to 12, 35 euros; free up to 5 · 329 3988080 · oasicervara.it · oasicervara@gmail.com
piazza Indipendenza, 31050 Badoere di Morgano (TV)
at Badoere, about fifteen kilometres west of Treviso, the village square is a circle closed by two long semicircular porticoes, the barchesse, the farm wings, of a villa of the Badoer family: in the western one were the shops, in the eastern one the farm labourers' houses, and at the end the little church of Sant'Antonio from 1645. It is the village of Badoere asparagus, white and green, and here, between the end of April and the beginning of May, the asparagus show is held. You pass it coming from the Oasi di Cervara, which is three kilometres away
the villa that Andrea Palladio built from about 1558 for the Emo family, who stayed there until 2004, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 with Palladio's other villas. Outside it is bare, without decoration, with the main house in the centre and the two long barchesse at the sides for the work of the fields, ending in two dovecotes; inside, the rooms are all frescoed by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, with gods and heroes. You arrive along a long paved avenue, and there is a visitors' car park in front of the villa. It is about twenty kilometres from Treviso and a few kilometres from Castelfranco
Opening hours according to the villa, because of the restoration under way you get in only by booking by email. From March to October Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 16:00, with last entry at 15:00; from November to February Friday to Sunday from 10:00 to 15:00, with last entry at 14:00. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, on 17, 24, 25, 26 and 31 December and 1 January, and from 19 to 27 October 2026 · according to the villa, 10 euros, 7 over 65, from 11 to 25 and with the ticket of a museum of the Isola dei Musei; the family ticket, two adults and up to three young people from 11 to 25, 25 euros; free up to 10 with the family · 0423 476355 · villaemo.eu · info@villaemo.eu
via Francesco Maria Preti, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
twenty-five kilometres west of Treviso, towards Vicenza, a castle that the commune of Treviso built between 1195 and 1199 on the border with Padua and Vicenza, and settled with a hundred families free from taxes: hence the name, the free castle. The walls are still standing, with the moat full of the water of two streams, the Avenale and the Musonello. You go in under the Torre civica; inside are the Duomo, Giorgione's house and the Teatro Accademico. The climb up the tower and the walk on the walls are paid and follow the seasonal hours, which you ask at the tourist office
The Duomo of Castelfranco and Giorgione's altarpiece
Church · free entry · 45.67073, 11.92681
piazza San Liberale, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
the eighteenth-century Duomo, the first work of Francesco Maria Preti, inside the castle. In the Costanzo chapel is the Pala di Castelfranco, the Madonna enthroned between Saint Liberale in armour and Saint Francis, painted by Giorgione around 1503-1504: the only altarpiece he made, and it is still in the church it was intended for. In the same church there are a Palma il Giovane and the Descent into Limbo by Giovanni Battista Ponchini
Opening hours according to the parish, the altarpiece can be visited every day from 8:00 to 11:45 and from 15:00 to 17:45, but not during services · 0423 495202 · chiesacastelfranco.it · duomo@chiesacastelfranco.it
piazza San Liberale, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
next to the Duomo, the house museum dedicated to Giorgione, who was born in Castelfranco. The piece to look for is the frieze of the liberal and mechanical arts, painted along a wall and attributed to Giorgione, with books, instruments and the spheres of the sky. The museum has a lift and a creative corner for children. Until 15 November 2026 the rooms hold an exhibition of Italian photography from 1955
Opening hours according to the museum, Tuesday to Thursday from 10:00 to 13:00, with the ticket office closing at 12:30; Friday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, with the ticket office closing at 17:30. Closed on Mondays, at Christmas, on 1 January and at Easter · according to the museum, 7 euros, reduced 5 from 18 to 26 and over 65; 1 euro for under-18s; the family ticket, two parents and children up to 18, 12 euros; free up to 6. With the full ticket you get the reduced price at Villa Emo and at the other museums of the Isola dei Musei · 0423 735626 · museocasagiorgione.it · info@museocasagiorgione.it
In spring Treviso looks to the countryside: the white asparagus of Badoere at Zero Branco, the flowers in Borgo Cavour. In summer the music goes down along the Sile, in September the comics arrive, in October the funfair of the Fiere di San Luca. Winter begins with the Christmas village and the Befana, the Epiphany witch, under the Loggia dei Trecento, carries on with the late radicchio and ends with the floats of Shrove Tuesday.
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The exhibitions at the Museo di Santa Caterina
all year round, with changing exhibitions
at the Museo di Santa Caterina, since October 2026 also home to the tourist office, the great temporary exhibitions follow one another. Until 15 January 2027 "La materia dei sogni", the stuff of dreams, on the roots of contemporary African art, with more than a hundred and twenty works by twenty-three artists from sub-Saharan Africa
on now
22Nov
Borgo Cavour antiques market
the fourth Sunday of the month
the market of antiques, collectables and vintage along Borgo Cavour, from 8:00 or 9:00 to 19:00, with free entry. In 2026 it started again in February, and in winter it comes back in December too
to be confirmed22 Nov · 27 Dec
9Feb
Treviso Carnival
the last weekend of Carnival and Shrove Tuesday
on the Saturday and Sunday before Shrove Tuesday the street shows, in 2026 the wooden games in the Giardini di Sant'Andrea; on Shrove Tuesday, at 14:00, the parade of about twenty allegorical floats and masked groups sets off from piazza del Duomo, goes down via Canova and Borgo Cavour and along the walls reaches piazzale Burchiellati. From midday the entry into the city from viale Cesare Battisti is closed. In 2026 on 14, 15 and 17 February; in 2027 Shrove Tuesday is on 9 February, and the Sunday before is a car-free day
to be confirmed
This year's dates are not out yet
Asparagus Show at Zero Branco
two weekends in April
the festival of asparagi di Badoere IGP organised by the Pro Loco of Zero Branco, about fifteen kilometres south-west of Treviso, which the Union of Pro Loco associations has recognised as a Sagra di Qualità, a quality food festival. In 2026, the twenty-ninth edition, from 10 to 12 and from 17 to 19 April. At Badoere, between the end of April and the beginning of May, the Consortium holds its own show, which in 2026 was the fifty-ninth, from 24 April to 3 May
Borgo Cavour in fiore
a Sunday in April
the show and market of plants, flowers and garden tools along Borgo Cavour, the street that runs from the centre to Porta Santi Quaranta, to the west, with craft stalls and, next to it, the Fiera Motori, devoted to leisure. Entry is free. In 2026 it was on 19 April, from 9:00 to 19:00
Sile Garden and Sile Jazz
from June to September
all summer the Giardini di Sant'Andrea, the park on the Sile in the centre, become a garden open in the evening, Wednesday to Sunday from 17:00 to midnight, free: concerts, theatre, games and activities for children, food trucks and the lawn for picnics. In the same period Sile Jazz brings about twenty concerts to unusual places along the river, in the provinces of Treviso and Venice, from parks to villas to hydroelectric power stations. In 2026 Sile Garden from 4 June to 19 September, Sile Jazz from 5 June to 25 July
Treviso Comic Book Festival
a weekend at the end of September
the international festival of comics and illustration, open to all and free: exhibitions of original artwork in several places in the centre, the show and market, meetings with the authors, workshops, the self-publishing area and the Carlo Boscarato awards. In 2026 from 25 to 27 September, with the show and market on 26 and 27
La Mezza di Treviso
a Sunday in October
the international half marathon, starting and finishing in viale d'Alviano, on the walls, and the ten-kilometre Tiramisù Run. In the morning the centre and a stretch of the PUT ring road are closed to traffic, and on the Saturday before viale d'Alviano is closed. In 2026 it was on 11 October
Antiche Fiere di San Luca
three weeks in October
the fair born in 1226, today a great funfair on the Prato della Fiera: in 2026 ninety rides, twenty-four for children, afternoons with cartoon characters, the stand with roast goose and folpi, the boiled octopus, and fireworks on 24 October. Entry is free, the rides are paid. In 2026, for the eight hundredth anniversary, from 2 to 25 October, with exhibitions on the history of the fair in the city
Christmas in Treviso
from the end of November to Epiphany
the Christmas village in piazza Rinaldi, with the markets and Father Christmas, the ice rink in piazza Borsa, the carousel in piazza dei Signori, the lit tree in piazza dei Signori and the street lights. After Christmas the Via dei Presepi, the nativity trail, leads through the churches of the centre, from the Duomo to San Francesco and Santa Maria Maggiore, and from 2 to 6 January under the Loggia dei Trecento there is the Epiphany Fair, with sweets and the stockings of the Befana. In 2025 from 22 November to 6 January, with the village from 29 November and, on Christmas Eve, the living nativity in piazza dei Signori; the 2026 programme comes out in November
The late radicchio shows
January
when the late radicchio rosso di Treviso IGP is at its best, the villages around the city devote their festivals to it: at Zero Branco the Pro Loco's show, with the food stand in the warm under a marquee in via Taliercio, the dishes ordered from your phone and paid at the till, and on Sunday shows and workshops for children; at Dosson di Casier, on the edge of the city, the radicchio festival between January and February. In 2026 at Zero Branco the thirty-second edition, with events from 17 to 25 January
Remember
Useful tips
The anti-smog bans hit diesel motorhomes up to Euro 4 Monday to Friday, and on alert days Euro 5 too, every day: move before 8:30 or after 19:30. From 17 December to 6 January there are no bans
In the two areas of the Comune you stay at most 48 hours and there is no electricity: for a long weekend, or in winter with the heating on, go to Quinto di Treviso
In October the Fiera district is taken over by the Fiere di San Luca, with the traffic and the funfair people around the via Boccaccio area; in those weeks the Tenni stadium area is the better choice
The tourist office has moved: since 8 October 2026 it is at the ticket office of the Museo di Santa Caterina, open Monday to Thursday from 9:30 to 13:30 and from 14:00 to 18:00, on Fridays and Saturdays from 9:00 to 13:30 and from 14:00 to 18:00, on Sundays and public holidays from 9:30 to 14:00
Many things have their own days: the Collezione Salce opens only Friday to Sunday, the Oasi di Cervara on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from March to November, Villa Emo only by booking. Titian's Annunciation is not in its place in the Duomo: the Malchiostro chapel has been a building site since February 2026, and at the entrance there is a life-size copy
With children: the canals and the mill wheels, the Fontana delle Tette, the graveyard of the burci along the Sile at Casier, the owls of the Oasi di Cervara, and in summer Sile Garden in the Giardini di Sant'Andrea
In the tiramisù the source does not say how much coffee is needed or whether it is sweetened, how large the dish should be or for how many hours to keep it in the fridge; and the yolks are raw. In the risotto de sparasi it does not say what rice, what broth, whether the asparagus is white or green, how long the rice cooks or where the tips go
Treviso · 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.
Treviso eats according to the seasons of the countryside and the river. Winter is the time of radicchio rosso di Treviso IGP, the late red radicchio with long leaves, which after the harvest stays two weeks in spring water to turn white and crunchy, and of variegato di Castelfranco IGP, cream flecked with purple, born from a cross between red radicchio and escarole, which looks like a rose. Sopa coada is the soup "brooded" in the oven for hours, in layers of bread, boned pigeon and broth. In spring come asparagi di Badoere IGP, the asparagus of Badoere, white and green, eaten with eggs or in risotto, and in April bruscandoli, the shoots of wild hops gathered along the ditches, in risotto and in omelettes. From the Piave plain comes Raboso, the sharp red wine of the Marca, the Treviso area, and from the hills Prosecco; from the dairies casatella trevigiana DOP, a fresh, soft cheese. And then there is tiramisù, born at the Beccherie: yolks, sugar, mascarpone, savoiardi sponge fingers soaked in coffee, and bitter cocoa, with no cream and no liqueur. Tiramisù, in a motorhome, needs only a bowl, a whisk and a few hours in the fridge.
Distances and times by road, measured with OSRM on OpenStreetMap data.
Looking
Treviso in photographs
30 shots from our visit. Tap one to see it large.
the canal of the Buranelli with the willows over the water, on a May afternoonPhoto: Roberto Ribotta, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Isola della Pescheria with the iron bridge and the stalls of the fish market under the chestnut treesPhoto: Nicola Quirico, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Cagnan and the Buranelli parting among the houses, seen from a bridge in the centrePhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the mill wheel on the Cagnan next to the Isola della Pescheria, covered in moss and still in the waterPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0piazza dei Signori with the Palazzo dei Trecento, the arcades and the civic tower, on a May morningPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Loggia dei Cavalieri, with the remains of the frescoes under the roofPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Calmaggiore with its arcades, the street that leads from piazza dei Signori to the DuomoPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Fontana delle Tette in its courtyard in the centre; the original of 1559 is in the Palazzo dei TrecentoPhoto: Triplec85, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the neoclassical facade of the Duomo with its Ionic columns and green dome, on a September eveningPhoto: Liridon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Romanesque crypt of the Duomo, a forest of columns under the presbyteryPhoto: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Titian's Annunciation in the Malchiostro chapel of the Duomo, before the 2026 building worksPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the apses and the bell tower of San Nicolò, the great Gothic church of the DominicansPhoto: Francesco Bini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the nave of San Nicolò with the frescoed columns and the wooden ceiling shaped like a ship's hullPhoto: Triplec85, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Saint Jerome in his study, a fresco by Tomaso da Modena on a column of San NicolòPhoto: Francesco Bini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cardinal Hugh of Provence with his spectacles, painted by Tomaso da Modena in the chapter house of the Dominicans in 1352Photo: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, Public domainUrsula meets the pope in Rome, from the Stories of Saint Ursula by Tomaso da Modena at Santa CaterinaPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the south cloister of the Museo Bailo, with the statues between the arches, on a May dayPhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Chocolat Klaus by Leonetto Cappiello, one of the posters of the Collezione SalcePhoto: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Porta San Tomaso of 1518 with the lion of Saint Mark, from the bridge over the moatPhoto: Roberto Ribotta, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Porta Santi Quaranta with the lion of Saint Mark and the cannon, from the bridge over the moatPhoto: Phante, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Renaissance portal of Porta Altinia, with the covered passage towards the centrePhoto: Liridon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the bastion of Santa Sofia on the Venetian walls, with the swans on the islet in the moatPhoto: Liridon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Sile in the city, broad and green, under a May skyPhoto: Boris Maric, Wikimedia Commons, CC0the boardwalk over the Sile at Casier, with a sunken burcio in the graveyard of the bargesPhoto: Kallerna, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Oasi di Cervara at Quinto di Treviso, with the spring water and the mill housePhoto: Pottercomuneo, Wikimedia Commons, Public domainthe corner tower and the battlemented walls of Castelfranco Veneto, on an August afternoonPhoto: Rino Porrovecchio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Giorgione's Pala di Castelfranco in its chapel in the Duomo of CastelfrancoPhoto: Chfono, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Casa di Giorgione in Castelfranco, now a museum, with the frieze of the arts painted insidePhoto: AndreaDp271, Wikimedia Commons, CC0Villa Emo at Fanzolo, Palladio's villa between its two barchesse, on an October dayPhoto: Mhwater, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0late red radicchio from Treviso on a market stall, with its curled leavesPhoto: El Mono Español, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
