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5 Cittadella
* 18,000. V @ n Porte Bassanesi
2 (0499 40 44 85). ( Mon am.
This attractive town is the twin
of Castelfranco. Each was
fortified and Cittadella still
preserves its 13th-century
moated walls. These are
interrupted by 4 gates and
by 16 towers. The Torre di The pretty town of Asolo in the foothills of the Dolomites
Malta near the southern gate
was used as a torture chamber P Casa di Giorgione P Villa Barbaro
by Ezzelino de Romano, who Piazzetta del Duomo. Tel 0423 72 50 Masèr. Tel 0423 92 30 04. Open Apr–
ruled in the mid-13th century. 22. Open 9:30am–12:30pm Tue–Thu, Oct: 10am–6pm Tue, 11am–6pm Sat,
Far more pleasant to 9:30am–12:30pm, 2:30–6:30pm Fri– Sun & public hols; Nov–Mar:
contemplate is the Supper at Sun. Closed Easter, 25 Dec. & 11am–5pm Sat, Sun & public hols.
Emmaus in the Duomo, a ∑ museogiorgione.com Closed 12 Dec–31 Jan, Easter. &
∑ villadimaser.it
masterpiece by local Renais- P Villa Emo
sance artist Bassano. Fanzolo di Vedelago. Tel 0423 47 63 P Casa di Canova
34. V Fanzolo. @ 5. Open May–Oct: Piazza Canova. Tel 0423 54 43 23.
10:30am–12:30pm, 2–6pm Mon–Fri, Open 9:30am–6pm Tue–Sun; ticket
10:30am–6:30pm Sat, Sun & pub hols; office closes at 5pm. Closed 1 Jan,
Nov–Apr: 9:30am–12:30pm, 2–5pm Easter, 25 Dec. & ∑ museocanova.it
Mon–Fri 10:30am–6:30pm Sat, Sun &
pub hols. Closed 1 Jan, 25 & 31 Dec.
& = ∑ villaemo.org 8 Valdobbiadene
* 10,700. @ n Piazza Marconi 1
7 Asolo (0423 97 69 75). ( Mon.
* 2,000. @ n Piazza Garibaldi 73 Valdobbiadene, surrounded by
(0423 52 90 46). ( Sat. ∑ asolo.it vine-covered hills, is a centre for
the sparkling white wine called
Asolo is beautifully situated Cartizze, a type of Prosecco. To
among the cypress-clad foot- the east, the Strada del Vino
hills of the Dolomites. Queen Bianco (white wine route)
Fresco from the Villa Emo at Fanzolo, Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510) stretches 34 km (21 miles) to the
near Castelfranco once ruled this tiny walled town town of Conegliano (see p179),
(see p47), and the poet Cardinal passing vineyards offering wine
6 Castelfranco Pietro Bembo coined the verb to try and to buy.
asolare to describe the bitter-
* 30,000. V @ n Via Riccati 14
(0423 49 50 00). ( Tue & Fri am. sweet life of enforced idleness Environs
she endured. Others who have About 10 km (8 miles) northeast
Fortified in 1199 by rulers fallen in love with these narrow of Valdobbiadene is the small
of Treviso, the historic core streets include poet Robert town of Follina, known for its well-
of this town lies within the Browning, who named a preserved Romanesque abbey.
well-preserved walls. Casa di volume of poems Asolando
Giorgione, claimed to be the (1889) after the town, and travel
birthplace of artist Giorgione writer Freya Stark, who lived
(1478–1511), houses a museum here until her death in 1993.
devoted to his life. He created Just 10 km (6 miles) east of
such works as The Tempest (see Asolo is the Villa Barbaro at
p134). His Virgin and Child with Masèr (see pp28–9), while
Saints Liberal and Francis (1504) 10 km (6 miles) north is the
is displayed in the Duomo. village of Passagno, birthplace
Tuzio Costanza commis sio ned of Antonio Canova. Canova’s
it to stand above the tomb remains lie inside the huge
of his son, Mat teo, killed in temple-like church which he
battle in 1504. designed himself. Nearby is
At Fanzolo, 8 km (5 miles) the family home, the Casa di
north east of Castelfranco, is Canova. The Gypsoteca here
Palladio’s Villa Emo, designed in houses the plaster casts and
1564. Here, Zelotti’s frescoes show clay models for many of
the love lives of Greek deities. Canova’s sculptures. Vines near Valdobbiadene

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