Half the world's ski boots were, one way or another, born here: Montebelluna is the capital of the "sportsystem", the Veneto sports-footwear district that raised the brands which put skis — and later hiking boots and football shoes — on half the planet's feet. The Boot Museum, in a Venetian villa, tells a unique craft that began with mountain shoemakers.
The town, at the foot of the Montello hill, runs on this industriousness and on a market that has been an institution for centuries. Treviso and the prosecco hills are twenty minutes away: but you come here to understand how a world-class district is built.
Near Montebelluna
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
