Bassano del Grappa means art, culture and Monte Grappa. What a magnificent view when you look at the wooden bridge “Ponte degli Alpini” across the River Brenta! Bassano del Grappa is especially beautiful when the sun sets. You will hardly find such a beautiful view somewhere else.
Approximately 40,000 people live in Bassano del Grappa. They made this town to be a real tourist attraction with its cultural activities, museums and theatres, with its restaurants and one of the best cuisines of Venetia, its architecture and numerous distilleries that produce the world famous Grappa. Bassano del Grappa is located near to the most famous mountain in Venetia – Mount Grappa – and it got its name from the mountain.
Nowadays Mount Grappa is a Mecca for admirers of paragliding and hang gliding. Perfect career opportunities and the best thermals on Mount Grappa attract pilots from all over Europe. And the city benefits from this, too. A lot of hotels and restaurants have been aimed at athletes. Bassano del Grappa has hotels, apartments and wonderful summer houses that have a really excellent location. Not only the pilots benefit from this but all the guests of the city, too. While in the city, you should visit the churches of San Giovanni Battista and San Francesco. You shouldn’t also miss your chance to visit one of the fascinating villas of the city, especially Villan“Bianchi-Michiel” located in the region of Angarano.
Many tourists also come to Bassano del Grappa because of ceramics as this city is a ceramics centre. E.g. the shopping spree will surely come to an end in one of the beautiful ceramics shops where you will buy some of the ceramics works.
Bassano del Grappa is certainly one of the most beautiful and most interesting cities of Veneto. You will never forget your trip there.
