Things to Do

Castelfranco's main attractions cluster inside and immediately around the medieval walls. The town can be seen in half a day; combine with a Palladian villa or the Brion tomb for a full day.

Guide

Things to Do

01

Villa Emo

Villa Emo, eight kilometres east of Castelfranco at Fanzolo, is one of Andrea Palladio's most influential and most copied country houses. Designed and built …

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02

Castello and City Walls

The brick walls of Castelfranco are the reason most visitors stop here. Built around the year 1200 as a Trevisan border fort against Padua, …

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03

Duomo and Castelfranco Madonna

The eighteenth-century Duomo of Santa Maria Assunta is unremarkable as architecture — a plain neoclassical box rebuilt in the 1720s — but it houses …

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04

Teatro Accademico

The Teatro Accademico is an elegant late-eighteenth-century theatre tucked inside the walls, designed by Francesco Maria Preti in 1746 and opened to the public …

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05

Torre Civica

The tall brick clock tower at the western corner of the walls is the dominant vertical of the old town and one of the …

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06

Casa di Giorgione

A small museum in a brick house just inside the walls occupies what is traditionally identified as Giorgione's birthplace. The building itself is medieval, …

Museum
07

Villa Revedin-Bolasco

A nineteenth-century villa and park on the northern edge of the walls, set in nearly eight hectares of romantic English-style grounds. The villa itself …

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08

Piazza Giorgione

Piazza Giorgione is the main square just inside the eastern gate of the walled town. Long and rectangular, lined with arcaded buildings in faded …

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