Giorgione, Palladio, Venetian Renaissance painting & architecture, wine tasting

After a little more than 1 hour driving distance, along back roads passing by villages and a flat landscape, you will reach the medieval walled town of Castelfranco Veneto that welcomes you with its clock tower and its two entrance gates surrounded by crenelated walls. Here you will meet your licensed English speaking guide to visit a town that preserves the colors and the fragrances of an ancient history. The center of the castle is a little jewel, with its diverse styles of architecture. From those with a stamp from the Middle Ages to edifices with an eighteenth-century matrix. But most of all, Castelfranco Veneto is the place of birth of Giorgione. The artist that starts the Renaissance painting in the Veneto area, famous for his canvases of unrivaled beauty, from his Altarpiece located in the cathedral to the Tempest.

After your guided visit of Castelfranco Veneto, you will reach the medieval village of Asolo with your professional driver. Here you will have some free time to discover this tiny Venetian site and where you can enjoy your lunch. Your afternoon journey continues along the foothills of the Venetian Prealps where you will take the wine road that goes across gentle slopes and vineyards. Unexpected, on a slope, another masterpiece of Andrea Palladio: Villa Barbaro. Here you will make a short stop to admire the façade of the villa from outside and its chapel. After less than a mile, you will reach a farmhouse to visit a cellar and to have a Prosecco wine tasting.