Asolo is an ancient village towered over by the impressive Castle on top of the hill behind it. Carducci called it the "city of many horizons". It was also where Caterina Cornaro reigned and a town dear to artists and poets.

(If you arrive on a holiday or on the second Saturday of the month you will need to leave your car at the bottom of the hill because the town is closed to traffic. From the car park at Cà Vescovo there is a shuttle service).
Once inside the walls, you can walk to Piazza Maggiore (also known as Garibaldi Square) closed on the valley side by the Cathedral (with its fifteenth city prothyrum and altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto).
On the other side it opens onto Piazza Brugnoli. Here the seventeenth century Villa Scotti-Pasini predominates, and above it towers the Rocca (the Castle).
In the Loggia del Capitano (late fifteenth-early sixteenth century) you can visit the Civic Museum with sections dedicated to Caterina Cornaro and Eleonora Duse.

Continuing along Via Regina Cornaro, you can walk up the hill on the left to the Castello della Regina of medieval origin.
The castle still preserves the clock tower, a severed tower and the hall where the Queen held her hearings. At the bottom of via Cornaro you will find Piazza D'Annunzio and the Town Council.
To the west, after via Canova and the House of Eleonora Duse you reach the medieval church of S. Caterina. You then pass the Casa "longobarda" from the early sixteenth century, the convent, and the Chiesa di S. Anna (sixteenth century).
Next to the church there is a small cemetry where Eleonora Duse was buried. A little further on Villa Contarini of the sixteenth century appears, frescoed with biblical scenes. It is divided into two edifices, the other one known as Villa degli Armeni, where the hill rises on the opposite slope.
Returning to the town you can walk along the elegant via Browning. On the corner of via Marconi there is a small Zen fountain (1500) on the wall of the House where Browning, James and Carlo Scarpa lived.
Next door you will find Villa Stark. At the bottom of via Marconi via Foresto Vecchio will take you to the Chiesa di S. Angelo or S. Gottardo (thirteenth century).