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What to see > The Surroundings > Landscape page
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A TOUR AROUND ASOLO
The landscape of art and history
Set in one of the most interesting historical and artistic parts of the Veneto region, Asolo has been part of well travelled tourist routes such as the one that makes it part of the Esagono project for several years now; the Esagono project in particular involves it together with Bassano, Marostica, Possagno, Castelfranco Veneto e Cittadella in the promotion of a very beautiful territory where the heritage of enchanting nature, walled cities, works or art and Palladian villas mix with the handicraft and deep-routed culinary tradition.
The whole Asolo area is, therefore, studded with sites and other cultural and architectural treasures that must not be missed!
Beginning in the immediate surroundings of this splendid borough are fascinating mansions and villas such as Villa Barbini Rinaldi (1) at Casella d'Asolo on the road for Maser, a village inextricably linked with the Palladian masterpiece that is Villa Barbaro (2). Possagno is also very easy to reach. This is the land of the neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova place deputised to evoke his life and works (his birth house, the Gipsoteca, temple...).
Continuing towards Altivole, the monumental Brion Tomb (3) in the outlying administrative district of San Vito is worthy of mention. It is an architectural masterpiece by Carlo Scarpa and stands in the little cemetery of the village; at Altivole, on the other hand, the obligatory stop is the Barco della Regina Cornaro (4) complex, the country residence of the former Queen of Cyprus Caterina Cornaro at the end of the Fifteenth century. In conclusion, at Fanzolo one finds Villa Emo Capodilista (5), another Palladian work now owned by the Credito Cooperativo Trevigiano bank.
The area is also rich in memories and testimonies to the events that caused plunged these areas into turmoil during the early twentieth century: on Monte Grappa the Monumento Ossario (6) a memorial dedicated to the fallen of all the wars with the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery and the museum; Crespano del Grappa houses the Mount Grappa document centre and Pederobba the French War Cemetery; and then Riese Pio X, native town of Pius X, where the actual house where the later Pope, known as Pope Sarto by his surname, was born is preserved as it once was.
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