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the monument to Bishop
Zanetti (1501) by Pietro
Lombardo and his sons.
E Museo Civico
Piazzetta M Botter 1. Tel 0422 54 48 64.
Open 9am–12:30pm, 2:30–6pm Tue–
Sun. Closed public hols. & 7
∑ museicivicitreviso.it
The Museo Civico houses an
archaeology collection and a
picture gallery in the restored
convent of Santa Caterina dei
Servi. The best works are
Lorenzo Lotto’s Portrait of a
The medieval town of Treviso, built around ancient canals Dominican (1526), Titian’s
Portrait of Sperone Speroni (1544)
9 Treviso the lack of suitable building and Bassano’s Crucifixion as
stone. The modern, bustling well as Tommaso da Modena’s
* 81,700. @ V n Via Fiumicelli
30 (0422 54 76 32). ( Tue & Sat am. fish market also has medieval 14th-century frescoes of the
origins. It is held on an island life of St Ursula.
Full of attractive balconied in the middle of Treviso’s River
houses overlooking willow- Sile so that the remains of the R San Nicolò
fringed canals, Treviso is a day’s trading can be flushed Nestling near the 16th-
rewarding city for visitors. away instantly. century town wall is the bulky
Comparisons are often made Dominican church of San Nicolò,
with Venice, but Treviso has its R Duomo full of tombs and frescoes,
own distinctive character. A Treviso’s cathedral, founded including some by Lorenzo
good place to explore the in the 12th century, was Lotto. There is a gigantic painting
architecture is the main street, reconstructed in the 15th, of St Christopher by Antonio da
Calmaggiore, which links the 16th and 18th centuries. Inside Treviso and the piers of the nave
cathedral with the rebuilt is Titian’s Annunciation (1570), bear vivid portraits of saints by
13th-century town hall, the but it is upstaged by the Tomaso da Modena. The latter
Palazzo dei Trecento. The striking Adoration of the Magi also painted the humorous
tradition of painting the exterior fresco (1520) of Titian’s arch pictures of monks (1352) on
of the houses dates back to the rival, Il Pordenone. Other the walls of the chapterhouse
medieval period, and this form memorable works are The (Sala del Capitolo), which has a
of decoration, applied to brick Adoration of the Shepherds separate entrance through the
and timber, compensated for fresco by Paris Bordone, and Seminario Vescovile.

Treviso Town Centre
1 Duomo and Battistero di San Giovanni 4 Pescheria (fish market)
2 San Nicolò 5 Museo Civico
3 Palazzo dei Trecento
CONEGLIANO
V I A L E F R AT EL L I C A IROLI City Wall
VIALE BARTOLOMEO D’ALVIANO VIALE FRATELLI
CAIROLI
Porta dei ARMA T A
Santi Quaranta
BORGO VIA ALESSANDRO PIAZZA
VIALE TERZA
CAVOUR VIA RICCATI MANZONI GIACOMO VI A LE N IN O B IX I O
MATTEOTTI
PIAZZA
DEL
Aeroporto VIA A. CANOVA CALMAGGIORE
DUOMO
5 km
VIALE NAZARIO SAURO (fish market) V I A CAR LO ALBERTO
(3 miles) VIA MURA SAN TEONISTO Duomo VIA Pescheria Museo
Civico
VIALE CESARE BATTISTI VIALE DANIELE MANIN Palazzo S. MARIA
PIAZZA
D’ANNUNZIO
PIAZZA dei Trecento MAGGIORE
PIAZZA
VIA SAN NICOLO
DELLA DELLA
VITTORIA BORSA
San Nicolò Sile
Seminario
Fossa Urbana Esterna
Bus Stazione
VIA L E TREN T O E T R I E S TE
Station 200m (220 yards)
0 metres 200
MESTRE
0 yards 200
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