We have already mentioned Marostica and its famous Game of Chess in the romantic itinerary. From the home town of the fair Lionora we move on to Bassano del Grappa which welcomes visitors in its characteristic old centre built on a steep slope, its "piazzotti", towers, rich Civic Museum with 20,000 prints bequeathed by the Remondini family and paintings by the Da Pontes, but especially with the most famous of all Bassano's monuments, the covered bridge designed by Palladio and known to all as the Ponte degli Alpini.

Dominating the plain are Asiago and the Plateau of the Seven Communes, famous and excellently equipped tourist and winter sports resorts, a paradise for skiers with hundreds of kilometres of pistes. Between 1915 and 1918, some of the bloodiest battles of the First World War were fought on the Plateau; at Asiago stands the great monumental Memorial that holds the remains of thousands of the fallen.

In the Val d'Assa is an extraordinary park of rock carvings, made by man between 5000 and 3000 B.C.

The Astico separates the Plateau of the Seven Communes from the Plateau of Tonezza del Cimone, with its enchanting sites surrounded by the green of the woods in summer and covered with a mantle of snow in winter; then there is Posina and its valley, the tiny lakes at Laghi, Fogazzaro's Velo d'Astico, Arsiero and the Valdastico, the realm of the trout, lands of legendary vegetables and mountain honey.