Better Than Venice? 🇮🇹 North Italy’s Hidden Medieval City | Treviso

Don’t want to go to the overly crowded Venice? Want to see a piece of Italy that’s authentic? Let us show you the beautiful Veneto city of Treviso! We did say that North Italy has a lot of hidden gems and this is one of them.
A short train ride north of Venice, you have another charming town that also has the canals and also fortified walls. This medieval city has stunning, picturesque streets that most tourists never seen.
Since we live in Italy, we want to show you as much as possible as we explore this great country!

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Treviso, a hidden gem in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, is a city that often slips under the radar for many travelers, yet holds a charm and a wealth of culture that can rival its more famous neighbors like Venice. Here’s an engaging introduction to Treviso, tailored for someone who might not be familiar with the city or the region:

– **A City of Waterways and Medieval Walls**: Often referred to as “Little Venice,” Treviso is crisscrossed by a network of canals and encircled by well-preserved medieval walls. These serene canals, with their gentle flow, add to the city’s picturesque and tranquil ambiance.

– **The Original Home of Prosecco**: For wine enthusiasts, Treviso is a destination of note. It’s the birthplace of Prosecco, the globally beloved sparkling white wine. The surrounding hills of Treviso are dotted with vineyards producing this effervescent delight, making the city a must-visit for those looking to explore the origins of their favorite bubbly.

– **Tiramisu – A Sweet Invention**: Treviso stakes a claim to being the birthplace of Tiramisu, the world-renowned Italian dessert. This delectable treat, made from ladyfingers dipped in coffee and layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, dusted with cocoa, is a culinary emblem of the city.

– **Historical Treasures in Architecture**: The city boasts a range of architectural marvels from various eras, including the Romanesque-Gothic Church of San Francesco, where the tombs of Petrarch’s daughter and Dante’s son can be found, adding a literary angle to its historical significance.

– **The Land of Radicchio**: Treviso is renowned for its Radicchio Rosso di Treviso. This unique red lettuce is celebrated in local cuisine and is a symbol of the city’s agricultural heritage. It’s used in a variety of dishes, from risottos to salads, and is cherished for its slightly bitter taste and crisp texture.

– **A Haven for Cyclists and Walkers**: With its tranquil streets and scenic river paths, Treviso is a paradise for those who love to explore on foot or by bike. The city’s commitment to pedestrian and cycling paths makes it an ideal place to wander without the rush and noise of heavy traffic.

– **Cultural Festivals and Events**: The city comes alive with various cultural events and festivals throughout the year, celebrating everything from its culinary heritage to its historic traditions. These events are a window into the local customs and offer a vibrant glimpse of the city’s spirit.

Plus you don’t need to pay a city tax here just to get in, unlike in Venice starting in April 2024.

Treviso, with its rich history, culinary delights, and serene landscapes, is a city that offers a uniquely Italian experience, away from the hustle of the more tourist-trodden paths. It’s a destination that holds a treasure trove of experiences for those willing to explore its charming streets and traditions.

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Timestamps:
00:00 intro
00:39 Tiramisu Cafe
01:50 Little Venice
02:45 Interesting Fountain in Treviso
03:34 Treviso Exploring
04:26 The Cathedral Of St Peter The Apostle
04:52 Treviso Center
06:28 Local bar
07:38 Getting lost
7:59 Trying food from Puglia
11:01 What to buy in Italy
11:22 Better alternative to Venice
13:02 Fish Island
13:40 Buying a house in Italy?
13:56 Civic Museum of Treviso
15:31 Medieval, walled city
16:07 Closing thoughts on Treviso

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Better Than Venice? North Italy’s Hidden Medieval City | Treviso

[Music] [Applause] we wanted to show you how beautiful the city  of Treviso is today and according to all the   weather apps it was supposed to be nice and  sunny Vernon what’s the what’s the weather  

Like today so not only is it cold it’s not 55  like it said but it’s also extremely foggy it   was extremely dangerous getting here today yeah  I felt like uh we’re going to be doing like an   episode of Halloween like a Horror Story instead  of like a cute travisa little Venice Vibes but  

Now we’re on our way to get some cappuccino and  get some tiramisu you might think it’s too early   but troviso is where tiramisu was created I don’t  think we’re quite in uh the outside seating time   yet so Vernon’s all wrapped up are you cold  a little bit they got these blankets on the  

Chairs which is pretty cool we’ve seen these  in other places before but we never use them I   mean they’re super warm it’s like wool it’s still  before noon so it’s still totally acceptable to   drink a cappuccino it’s not an official rule but  it’s kind of like an unofficial rule yeah Italians  

Will drink espressos after 12 but generally  they won’t drink cappuccinos after that time   especially after your meal I think that’s the  worst you’ll get so many looks in Italy I love   the uh portion sizes of this it’s delicious burn  I think you’re going to have to go get your own  

Honestly I think chisu and maybe German chocolate  cake are probably my favorite desserts so we’re in   the town where teramusu from so obviously there’s  no other option besides this this is the Breakfast   of Champions guys it’s kind of like if you turn  like a chocolate cake into a yogurt that’s kind  

Of what this is like so soft and there’s so much  cacao on top that if you try to inhale it while   you’re eating you’ll probably choke on it this  is also probably one of the best tiu places in  

Triso so if you do come here definitely check  this place out so there’s about one bite left   and since this is Vernon’s favorite dessert  you’re so kind that’s basically all you left Me we have our caffeine we have our sugar  hopefully that’ll keep us warm enough so prco   so prco also comes from this region fun fact but  anyway uh so if you look behind us what is triso  

Known for so this is also called Little Venice  and one of the reasons why is cuz not just because   it’s really close there but the architecture is  similar and there’s a ton of these little canals   everywhere so if you don’t want to deal with the  crowds of Venice chaos the chaos the expensiveness  

And stuff like that but you still kind of want  some of that Vibe this is definitely the place   to check out so from Venice I think this is like  maybe like a 20 25 minute train ride so you can  

Literally hop on and few steps in your here and  again there’s not a lot of crowds it’s really nice   actually much more affordable especially if you  want to have the true authentic Italian [Music] experience I always find this Fountain and I  don’t understand the point of it let me show  

You so if someone can explain to me uh the  meaning and the purpose of that Fountain cuz   every time I come here we somehow wander into  this Plaza and I see it and I don’t know some  

Kind of like Italian fertility Fountain is it is  that what it says I don’t know it says drinkable   water on the oh you can drink it ver you want to  drink the water are you use useful I’m cured of  

Everything honestly or I got everything I don’t  know what that Fountain symbolizes all right   so I actually got a description of what that  Fountain over there with the uh water coming   out of it is about apparently it’s from like  the 16th century and 3 days out of the year I  

Think they have red wine and white wine coming  out of it if Chad gbt translated everything properly so we seem to be on the Main Street  here uh leading to the square and all the   stores you see on the sides here it’s all just  shops like everything from local Italian to  

Something more popular like Max Mara and yeah  this is just all shops this is pretty cool and   another thing I really like about Italy  whenever they have these types of little   shops they have those types of arcades like  so you’re hidden away from the elements and  

I think it’s really cool cuz that way you can  go shopping and not worry if it’s raining or   snowing we were walking by and I saw something  that I absolutely love this time of the year so  

This is another reason why you should come to  Italy not only in the summertime so since it’s   the beginning of Carnaval uh they have all these  good fried goodies that are hundreds of years old   well the recipes are anyway and if you’re not  into sweets don’t worry cuz they still got the

[Music] chetti so when we were trying to go  inside the church in urin it was closed let’s   see if this one is open is there two next to  each other I think it’s the old one well it  

Is Saturday this time so last time we were in  Udin it was in Sunday being here on a Saturday   probably means we have more likely chance to  get inside the church with nobody in [Music] it I can’t believe there’s a church underneath  the church yeah this is a crypt this is not  

Something that we see in every single church  here in Italy there’s quite a few of them that   have this I don’t really know the significance  of stuff like this but it’s kind of cool it’s  

Like in the church basement I want to find out how  old this church is look at the uh the old neurals wow he it’s amazing we’ve been here so many  times and this is the first time we’ve ever  

Been inside that church I had no idea how  beautiful it was inside and it has a crypt   and that I mention all of this was free  I mean they obviously have offerings and   stuff like that they want you to donate a  little bit but the crypto was probably the  

Coolest part I mean you don’t really get to  go into a church basement very often there   are some other more famous churches  around here that that have stuff like that the main plaza here is not as impressive  as the one we’ve been to in UD or some of the  

Other bigger cities here but I will say that  even though they don’t have like you know those   grand plazas here those patas they have a ton  of these like little narrow streets like Venice   there are just like really really well preserved  and you have a ton of shops a ton of restaurants  

And maybe we can check one out right now what  do you think we got to yeah get some of the   local Cuisine the the the T suit was good but  it actually started to make me a little hungry  

The coffee and the rum in there yeah my body’s  like okay we need to put something for real in this these types of bars are very common you just  kind of walk in grab some prco and grab I’m  

Not sure what this is but it’s hot cuz I’m very  cold it’s like the bread is fried and the stuff   inside is hot oh damn it’s something with cheese  and Pudo is really good smells amazing W I think  

These were like €2 and this was 50 m so if you  want affordable what did you call this bar it’s   some kind of like early 2000s bar with all these  little noia cell phones everywhere there was some  

Britney Spirits music playing on the radio just  now and I don’t think a single person in this bar   is born after 2000s so yeah this is definitely  for a little bit of an older crowd but it’s kind  

Of a nostalgic I guess it’s very nostalgic and you  know what I bet you I bet you those Nokia phones   tape to the wall still work yeah unlike my iPhone  sometimes so those types of cafes bars are super  

Common in Italy throughout especially in Menace  you just kind of pop in it’s all standing you   grab something fresh a Catch of the Day or like  a fresh sandwich of the day grab a glass of red  

Wine for CYO I think we’re closer to noon so it’s  okay and it’s totally acceptable to drink wine   right now this is definitely like Venice because  you get lost walking through these little streets  

I think this is like the fourth time we got lost  we’ve been trying to find this place to eat but   honestly we might just kind of Wonder and see  what we can find because Google does not work here  

I don’t know what’s going on Google come on you  need more satellites in Italy come on what’s going on damn I think this is the restaurant a little  extra this place super local typical for pulia  

Do you want eat Pula you want me try something  TR no we can we can eat here this is uh pretty   famous we haven’t been to pulia we have not  been to pulia but there’s a very special kind  

Of Village in pulia that will show you a  picture of right now that you’ve probably   seen pictures of it’s in a town called Albero  Bellow so Mariana was looking up places to   eat and I guess we just discovered this one  by accident to be fair traviso is known for  

Their Seafood so if you want we can check  it out too bet people can’t vote on this   right now yeah well I guess you guys will  know where we eat if we eat here somewhere else one of the things I started doing whenever  we go to restaurants anywhere not even in Italy  

Uh I always when we get the olive oil I always  get nosy and curious about where the oil is from   usually we also try to visit it cuz a lot of  wineries make their olive oil too so I’m like  

Oh we’ve been to that one I’m like oh I look  it up I’m like oh we should go to that one so   that’s kind of like an interesting thing you can  do you can actually visit the places where your  

Products come from first impressions of the food  it smells amazing I’ve never had anything from Kia   or anything from that region we got some type of  fried seafood I don’t know why they brought his   second now and they brought our appetizer and I  still have my second so it’s a little confusing  

But either way the food’s going to be amazing  that’s another thing you guys should know about   Italy is that they don’t exactly bring the food  out for everybody at the same time they kind of   bring it out as it’s ready so you might be eating  while your friend’s just sitting there looking at  

An empty tablecloth we’re going to just call this  cheese cheese soup Italy has a ton of different   cheeses so I guess in the spirit of last week  when we were in Udin I got kind of adventurous  

And wanted to go with this kind of fish that I’ve  never heard of I tried Googling it actually it   was called a torba Rosa something I don’t know  but when I Googled it all I got was bottles of  

Whiskey I didn’t even get the fish so I was really  W SS great it’s very crispy yeah it’s like fried   panko flakes then there’s like this creamy sauce  on there I hear the crunch all the way here wao  

Yeah you got the potatoes over here too like we  said it’s kind of weird right now because Marana   didn’t get her uh her dish yet so we shared the  appetizer we’re kind of sharing my dish now and  

Then when they take this plate away and they  bring ours in we’re just going to share that   too good news they didn’t mess up our order and  I did get my frto misco yeah usually it’s just   like an assortment of different types of sea  food like squid shrimp just an assortment of  

Seafood it’s amazing it’s usually great with beer  I just have white wine so like this is probably   one of my favorite foods to eat in the summertime  I always thought this food was bar food because   it’s like little fried appetizer kind of things  but yeah people actually get this stuff at like  

Actual like restaurants oh wow oh wow oh my God  the tentacles are too hot to pick up but I wanted   to show you guys look at the tentacles Vernon  always gets intimidated whenever we get stuff   like like this whenever you walk around through  these streets and you see all the stores oh my  

God there’s a corgi oh anyway uh when you walk  around through the streets and you see these   windows I noticed Italians love to Window Shop  especially for shoes and if you’re coming to   Italy and you want to get like a really super  Italian souvenir get shoes like the shoes here  

Are just 10 out of 10 every single time if you  dropped me here without me knowing where I am   I would say I’m in Venice this is crazy hey Vern  I just realized uh it doesn’t smell like you know  

How you always complain that Venice smells Venice  does smell it stinks not it doesn’t just smell it   smells like kind of it smells like sewer but triso  doesn’t smell I don’t think we smelled anything  

Bad so far I think we did in a little bit in the  beginning um it kind of It kind of reminded me of   Venice not just the canals but the smell but now  so far I think that was the fog cuz it was just  

Very musty out the fog smells like sewage that’s  possible but no it’s it’s really great honestly   this is really cool and these people got some  bizarre sculptures over here this is like the   the best Venice knockoff yeah Venice I mean  technically cuz you know they call it the Lal  

Venice it’s a lot cheaper and there’s not going  to be a difficulty in finding places to eat that   are going to be good because a lot of the places  in Venice are a huge scam in tourist traps you’re  

Going to go in there thinking you’re going to get  some authentic Venetian Cuisine but it’s not it’s   really just overpriced pasta that’s really really  poorly done an interesting thing though Venetian   Cuisine is just Cuisine from vetto vetto is the  region tro is in vetto so if you want to that’s  

What I said earlier if you want to experience  like a true vetto Venetian cuisine I mean 20   25 minute train ride boom true and a lot of the  little chicaras all over Venice uh they’re going  

To be here as well so yeah they’re like a euro  to Euro Max I also really like that it’s much   more like chill and relaxed here like you can  walk around without trying to be hassled by   anybody and honestly overall like walking around  here just strolling it feels much safer I would  

Say than Venice another thing is like we said  about UD uh not really anybody here trying to   sell you anything no scammers and basically no  tourist because probably nobody knows about this   place even though we’ve been to triso a few times  there’s like this little island it’s super tiny  

And they have I guess a fish market here but I  think we missed it it seems like it’s just a fresh   seafood market so if you’re staying here and you  want to cook some fish some fresh seafood but I  

Guess they are closed already so this is a morning  thing it’s literally situated on top of the water   it’s there’s a bridge to get in and a bridge to  get out yeah this is like the cutest little idea  

I had no idea this even existed in traviso like  it’s this is it it’s just a small little market   for seafood really unique smells very fishy  would you eat stuff from here not your style  

Not my style but the birds seem to love it I mean  Jesus there’s so many of these little ducks think   you of getting a house here no I mean they look  a little expensive for sure they even advertised  

Some of the houses that they have in Venice  which €750,000 oh my God yeah for a little spot   in Venice it’s probably the size of a bathroom  too we’re going to the biggest Museum they have  

Here and I really hope it’s it’s open cuz there  wasn’t a lot of information about it I think it’s   this way 30 m but what do you want to bet that  there’s not going to be like any people in this  

Museum oh yeah I mean this is a Civic Museum it’s  a museum dedicated to the town these are like the   least exciting museums in the world uh but I have  high hopes for it you’ll never guess how much this  

Museum costs for the two of us it was €1 and so  far we’re the only ones here and they have like   three museums they have a church um they have the  archaeological site then they have the Art Exhibit  

So for three different separate things it’s €6  each which just it feels like we’re stealing it what’s really amazing about these  paintings is that a lot of them are   from like the 1400s and the color and  the detail is so well preserved that   you would think that this was  painted just [Music] yesterday

[Music] what did you think about that exhibit  SL Church SL everything yeah it’s kind of   interesting right they don’t really have I  guess enough content for a museum so they   just kind of put everything that’s historic  about the city the church and everything into  

Like one building so you can see you know 600y  old artwork Fresco from the front of buildings   paintings and and all kinds of other stuff and  it was only €6 so that was definitely worth it so if you thought you had a problem trusting  your neighbor just imagine like 500 years ago  

This apparently is a wall city which as you  can see in order to get in you’ve got these   Gates that have to let you in because the  rest of the city is completely walled off   they even have like Moes surrounding the  city which are like huge pieces of water  

That prevent I guess invading forces from  coming through so I guess they had real   trust issues back then but yeah I guess  this is one of the cool things about it   you don’t really see these in a lot of cities  anymore but uh there’s a couple here in this

Region this is definitely a city that’s got quite  a bit to see we came here in the morning and it   was kind of gloomy it got a lot better throughout  the day unfortunately right now it’s probably  

Going to be about Sunset soon yeah there’s a lot  to see here um it’s definitely got a sort of a   Venetian charm the food is very Venetian uh  it’s got sort of like a moat a moat with like  

These weird castle walls it’s I think it’s a very  unique City especially for Northern City there’s   a lot to see especially if you’re looking kind  of to be more like off the beaten path like yeah   everyone’s been to Venice like go to Venice but  also go to triso kind of compare actual Italian  

Life because not a lot of Italians live in Venice  but there’s actual people that live in traviso   so again like I said earlier in the video you can  really like experience Italy for yourself and not   just like the super overrated touristy spots yeah  definitely no tourists here and it’s a lot cheaper  

Than Venice or a lot of other towns in this area  and surprisingly a lot of people spoke pretty good   English here too so if you don’t have any Italian  and you still want to be able to get by this is  

Definitely a place to check out definitely stay  tuned cuz we’re going to be showing you a lot more   of these amazing alternatives to popular cities  I mean yes you want to go to Florence you want to  

Go to Milan you want to go to Verona Italy is so  much more so our goal for this year is to check   out all the 20 regions we’ve been to 11 out of the  20 we want to go to all 20 this year and we want  

To check out as many cities there as possible and  take care along for the ride so stay tuned ciao Fortress [Music] vibes