Paese
Paese is a municipality of more than twenty-two thousand inhabitants in the western belt of Treviso, crossed by the Feltrina road...
Updated 11 July 2026
The story
The story of Paese
History and origins
The territory of Paese developed historically along the Feltrina, the ancient route linking Treviso to Montebelluna and, further inland, to the Feltre area. The oldest building in the municipality is the original core of Villa Tassoni, in Piazza Montello, dating from the fourteenth century: a manor complex with adjoining stables and rural buildings, altered several times over the centuries but still preserving numerous frescoes inside, including a triptych attributed to the school of Tommaso da Modena. Casa Benvegnù, probably built in the first half of the fifteenth century, also preserves frescoes inspired by the same Treviso school of painting, with sacred and hunting scenes still legible beneath its portico.
What to see
Besides Villa Tassoni and Casa Benvegnù, Casa Leoni-Piazza is worth a visit, a typical seventeenth to eighteenth century courtyard settlement, the only example in the municipality of Paese of a rural courtyard estate, made up of a three-storey manor house with square windows and Istrian stone sills. These are minor buildings within the wider panorama of Veneto art, but valuable for anyone wanting to understand how the minor countryside nobility of the Treviso area lived between the Middle Ages and the modern era, away from the circuit of the great Palladian villas.
Local life and economy
From the 1960s onward, Paese's economy shifted decisively toward industry, with manufacturing activity settling along the Feltrina, in line with the development of the broader Treviso industrial district linked to clothing, household appliances and electromechanics. The municipal territory has around ten gravel quarries, some still active, others turned into small lakes that now shape a distinctive landscape in the otherwise flat Treviso countryside. It is a town that lives chiefly on work, with less than half its population concentrated in the main village and the rest spread across the other four hamlets to the north.
Getting there
Paese lies just a few kilometres west of Treviso, along the Feltrina road, and can be reached within minutes by car from the city centre or from the Treviso Nord exit on the A27 motorway. Urban and extra-urban bus connections link it to the provincial capital and to the neighbouring towns of the Marca Trevigiana.
Experiences not to miss
- Ammirare gli affreschi trecenteschi di Villa Tassoni in Piazza Montello
- Admire the fourteenth century frescoes of Villa Tassoni in Piazza Montello
To see
What to see in Paese
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