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Veneto · Wine route · 1 day
Strada del Prosecco Italy's first wine road, signposted in 1966, threads the UNESCO hills from Conegliano to Valdobbiadene: eight stops, 43 km of ridge lanes, and the Cartizze slope near the end.
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stops, Conegliano to Valdobbiadene
Why this drive: No other Italian wine road can claim the first signpost: this one opened in 1966 and invented the idea. In 43 km you pass Italy's oldest wine school, a 12th century frescoed pieve and the Consorzio's villa at Solighetto. Then comes the Cartizze hill, 107 hectares of the most valuable vineyard land in Prosecco. UNESCO listed these hills in 2019. Drive it for the ridges themselves: vines on the sunny face, woods on the back, a village every ten minutes.
The route, drawn
See the whole road, then drive it stop by stop
The map stays with you as you read: scroll the stops and it follows, or press a marker to jump. Leg times are door to door, before the views slow you down.
Layers
The drive
Numbered stops
Estates near the route
Stop 1 of 8 · Conegliano
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Stop 1 · Where Prosecco went to school
Conegliano
ZTL city, see the driving notesThe eastern capital: an arcaded old street under a castle, and Italy's first wine school.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG The Superiore DOCG, poured in the town where Italy's first wine school opened in 1876
- Manzoni Bianco Luigi Manzoni bred his crossings at that school; his white is still grown in these hills
Walk Contrada Granda for the frescoed Duomo facade, then look up to the castle. The Cerletti wine school of 1876 shows its historic cellar and the Manzoni museum by appointment.
Where to eat
Seasonal Venetian cooking
Trattoria Città di Venezia. Via XX Settembre 77/79, in the 14th century Palazzo Montalban; first licensed to pour wine in 1846, closed Mondays
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Stop 2 · The frescoed pieve
San Pietro di Feletto
A scatter of hamlets around a 12th century hilltop pieve with frescoed walls.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG Rive di San Pietro di Feletto on a label means this village's steep slopes only
- Verdiso The hills' old local white, sharp and rare, kept going by a handful of growers
The official road climbs out of Conegliano through Collabrigo and Rua before the pieve. Stop for the frescoes, then the view over the Felettano hills from the churchyard.
Where to eat
Adriatic fish up in the Prosecco hills
Ristorante Ca' del Poggio. Via dei Pascoli 8, at the top of the Muro di Ca' del Poggio, the wall the Giro d'Italia climbs; closed non-holiday Mondays
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Stop 3 · The passito valley
Refrontolo
A village above the Lierza valley, named on labels for its sweet red passito.
What to taste here
- Colli di ConeglianoDOCG Refrontolo Passito, the sweet red this side valley puts on labels
- Marzemino The grape behind it, dried above the Lierza stream; Mozart's Don Giovanni orders it by name
Detour five minutes to the Molinetto della Croda, a watermill of nearly four centuries jammed into the rock face. The passito's vineyards hang above the stream.
Where to taste
Tenuta di Ville d Arfanta
Booking required
Wines to Try
A few wines from the estates above.
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Stop 4 · The Consorzio's front door
Solighetto
Villa Brandolini's village: the Consorzio's seat under the San Gallo hill.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG Villa Brandolini here is the DOCG Consorzio's seat; the whole zone shows in town
- Rive di Solighetto The village's own single-slope bottling, worth asking for by name
Villa Brandolini hosts the DOCG's Consorzio and its events. A short climb reaches the San Gallo chapel and a wide view over the Piave valley.
Where to taste
Cantina Colli del Soligo
View wineryWines to Try
A few wines from the estates above.
Where to eat
Veneto cooking from the old recipe book
Locanda da Lino. Via Roma 19; holds the Veneto historic-locale recognition, awarded 2019, with rooms named for regulars like Marcello Mastroianni
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Stop 5 · Towers above the vines
Col San Martino
A wine village under the Longobard towers of Credazzo.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG Rive di Col San Martino, the village's own steep-slope label
- ProseccoDOC The plain's DOC, tasted next to the hill wine, shows what the slopes add
The road passes Soligo and Farra di Soligo on the way in. Walk up to the Chiesetta di San Vigilio, a few minutes on foot above the vines, and find the three Credazzo towers on the ridge behind.
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Stop 6 · Cartizze's home slope
Santo Stefano
The village at the foot of the Cartizze hill, the DOCG's most valuable slope.
What to taste here
- Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze 107 hectares between Santo Stefano, San Pietro di Barbozza and Saccol: the DOCG's grand cru
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG Ask for the Dry style here; Cartizze's tradition runs softer than Brut
From Col San Martino the route rolls through Colbertaldo's cone-shaped hills and up through the Follo. Climb the Cartizze slope slowly; the walking path to Cima Cartizze passes the Senz'Oste farmhouse.
Where to eat
Cheese, salumi and a bottle on trust
Osteria Senz'Oste. Strada delle Treziese 4, a late-1800s stone farmhouse on the walking path to Cima Cartizze; serve yourself, pay at the automatic till
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Stop 7 · The Confraternita's village
San Pietro di Barbozza
The Confraternita's village, ringed by growers' cellars on the Cartizze edge.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG Seat of the Confraternita di Valdobbiadene; growers' cellars ring the square
- Col Fondo The old cloudy style, refermented in bottle and poured unfiltered in village osterie
Cellar doors sit within walking distance of the square. This is the place to compare growers' Superiore side by side.
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Stop 8 · The western capital
Valdobbiadene
The western capital: a neoclassical piazza with grower cellars in every direction.
What to taste here
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene ProseccoDOCG The town that signs the Superiore; grower cellar doors sit in every direction
- Extra Dry The classic Valdobbiadene balance, a touch softer than Brut, made for the aperitivo hour
Finish on the main piazza and the 1600s San Gregorio chapel nearby. The return leg to Conegliano leaves through Guia.
Where to eat
Costicine alla Cima off the grill, 20 euro
Trattoria alla Cima. Via Cima 13, above the town since 1969; the Rebuli family pours its own Superiore Brut and Extra Dry, closed Monday evening and Tuesday
Before you go
The practicalities
Visit prices are set by the winery and availability should be checked before travelling. Bookings open on the estate page or the provider's site.
When to go
September belongs to the pickers
September belongs to the pickers: Glera comes off these slopes through the month, every cellar is working and the lanes fill with tractors. April to June is the green season, full leaf and quieter roads. From November to February many family cellars open by appointment only and the light goes by five.
Booking reality
Every visit here is by request
Our live data lists two estates on this map, and neither takes instant online booking. Tenuta di Ville d'Arfanta publishes four visit formats, from a vineyard picnic to a Vespa tour, all by request. The route association posts a daily cellar-tasting calendar on its own site, with members such as Andreola and Le Bertole taking slots. Email a day or two ahead; the one guaranteed walk-up is the Senz'Oste hut above Santo Stefano.
Driving notes
A chain of lanes, not one road
The spine is a chain of narrow provincial lanes, not one numbered road; the association signs the return leg along the SP 123 through Campea and Pedeguarda. Lanes are hedge-tight and busy with cyclists, so plan on slow averages and let riders through on weekend mornings. Fill up in Conegliano or in the valley towns: the ridge lanes have no fuel stations. The Cartizze lanes above Santo Stefano are single-track with passing places; climb in first gear and give way to anyone coming down.
ZTL
One gated centre, and it is Conegliano's
Conegliano's Contrada Granda, the arcaded stretch of Via XX Settembre, is a camera-controlled ZTL running 24 hours a day, with four gates from Porta Dante to Via Mercatelli. Park free at Via Pittoni, 310 spaces, or paid at Piazza Pier Fortunato Calvi, 60 spaces, and walk in. Valdobbiadene has no ZTL: park by the main piazza. Camera fines reach hire-car drivers by post months later.
Getting a car
Collect at the airport, not in the ZTL
Collect the car at Venice Marco Polo or Treviso airport, both under an hour away, or take the train to Conegliano station and pick up in town. You do not need it in either centre: the car is for the ridge lanes between them. Keep it out of Contrada Granda and use the Via Pittoni car park when you stay over.
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Where to sleep on the route
One estate on this road has rooms, so you can book the cellar and the bed together.
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Reading the labels you'll pass
The wine country it crosses
Before you ask
Strada del Prosecco, answered
They overlap. The Strada del Prosecco opened in 1966 as Italy's first signposted wine road, and the modern route association, formed in 2003, redrew it as a 90 km loop. UNESCO listed the hills between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene in 2019, and the drive crosses the heart of the listed area.
About an hour and a half of driving covers the 43 km spine from Conegliano to Valdobbiadene. With two cellar visits and lunch it fills a day. The association's full route returns to Conegliano by a second leg, roughly 90 km in all.
Sometimes, but do not count on it. The estates in our live data take visits by request rather than instant booking, and Tenuta di Ville d'Arfanta lists four formats that all want notice. The association posts daily cellar-tasting slots on its site. The one guaranteed walk-up is the Osteria Senz'Oste above Santo Stefano, which has no host at all.
Contrada Granda, the arcaded centre of Via XX Settembre, sits inside a 24 hour camera ZTL with four gates. Park free at Via Pittoni, 310 spaces, or paid at Piazza Pier Fortunato Calvi, 60 spaces, and walk in under the porticoes. Valdobbiadene has no ZTL.
September, when the Glera harvest fills the lanes and every cellar is working. April to June runs it close, with the vines in full leaf and quieter roads. In deep winter many family cellars open by appointment only.
Cartizze is a single hill of 107 hectares between Santo Stefano, San Pietro di Barbozza and Saccol, inside Valdobbiadene. The DOCG treats it as its top site, and the traditional style is Dry, a shade sweeter than Brut. Small parcels and a big name keep prices up.
The official return leg leaves through Guia and follows the SP 123 past Campea, Pedeguarda and Farrò. A famous viewpoint waits at Rolle, then the road runs through Tarzo and Corbanese before dropping back into Conegliano. Allow about an hour without stops. The valley road does it in around 40 minutes.
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