Historical Towns and the Sources of Prosecco

Today is dedicated to the discovery of historic cities and the Prosecco region. Both well-known and lesser-known towns are waiting to be discovered. Castelfranco Veneto, Bassano del Grappa, and Asolo are real treasure chests with a huge amount of history. The Prosecco region, on the other hand, has grown in just a few decades from a small wine-growing area in Veneto to leading Italian supplier of sparkling and semi-sparkling wines: 3,500 hectares of cultivated land, 15 villages, and 30 million bottles per year.
Originally, Prosecco was the name of an ancient grape variety from Veneto whose history dates back to Roman times. Today, Prosecco is grown in eight Italian provinces. However, the most important cultivation area is and remains the province of Treviso in the Veneto region – more precisely, the vineyards around Valdobbiadene and Conegliano. Prosecco comes in different varieties: a still, non-sparkling wine, a sparkling wine (frizzante), and a fermented sparkling wine (spumante).
Because the good Lord has not only given Trevisan winegrowers an ideal wine climate. He’s also given them a landscape in the foothills of the Alps that’s made for viticulture like nowhere else! Marl and sandstone soils in the northwest, mineral-rich soil in the southeast, plus a whole chain of hills that stretch up into the clear sky, hungry for the sun. The soil composition of sandstone and clay and the particularly mild microclimate allow the grapes to reach their fullest ripeness here until late October. Moderate altitudes between 50 and 500 metres do the rest, so that a superlative sparkling wine can mature here quite leisurely.
The "Strada del Prosecco” or Prosecco Road, winds its way through the vineyards for 50 kilometres between Valdobbiadene and Conegliano. Everywhere it leads, it offers you the chance to have a pleasant break, and again and again you’ll see beautiful views over gently undulating hills and picturesque, small wine villages.