Via XX Settembre (historic porticoed street)
Walk the length of Via XX Settembre and you're tracing the old spine of Conegliano — the street that was once called Contrada Granda, the grand quarter, and earned that name by being the place where the city's economic and cultural life actually happened. The porticoes still run the full length of it, and under them you pass frescoed façades, rusticated stone loggias, and palazzo frontages that date from the 15th through 18th centuries.
The buildings here are not restored to a generic prettiness. The Monte di Pietà carries a fresco across its entire face — little angels holding instruments of the Passion — and the Palazzo Sarcinelli opens its ground floor to the street through an airy loggia. Each stretch of portico connects to the next like a sentence that keeps finding reasons not to end.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who've walked it more than once tend to slow down at the Monte di Pietà long enough to pick out the stone-framed Pietà image above the loggia, and at Palazzo Montalban Nuovo to find the passage porch that cuts clean through the building from the main street to Piazza IV Novembre — a shortcut that feels like a small discovery every time.
The story behind Via XX Settembre (historic porticoed street)
The street's older name, Contrada Granda, tells you what it was: the main artery of a walled medieval town, anchored at each end by a gate — Porta del Rujo to the west, Porta del Monticano to the east, and a third, Porta S. Polo, opening south. Conegliano passed to the March of Treviso in 1153 and then to the Republic of Venice in 1337, and through all of that the street held its role as the city's commercial and civic center.
The painter Pordenone (ca. 1483–1539) left a fresco of the Lion of St. Mark on the external façade of Porta del Monticano. Pozzoserrato frescoed the cathedral's porticoed façade with Old Testament scenes at the end of the 16th century. Ludovico Fiumicelli is credited with a fresco on the Monte di Pietà. The street was eventually renamed Via XX Settembre — the date marking Italian unification — though its bones remain those of Contrada Granda.
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Conegliano station is about an hour from Venice Santa Lucia by regional train. The street itself is free to walk at any hour. June through August gives you the best weather; November brings heavy rain. Every June, the Dama Castellana turns the historic center into a life-size chess board — worth timing a visit around.
Summer days are warm and occasionally humid, making the porticoes genuinely useful shade rather than just architectural detail. Winters turn cold and the rain is persistent across most of the year, with November the wettest month by a significant margin.
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A historic portico within the town centre of Treviso the Portici, starts at the meeting junctions of Via xx Settembre and Corso del Popolo and continues into the town centre, ending at the Church of Battistero di San Giovanni. This photo attached is taken of the houses above the Portici on Calmaggiore Street, right in the centre of the Portici in Treviso.
Seen on 03/22/2026 on a group trip.
Calle porticada con restos de antiguas pinturas que permiten apreciar parte de la gran belleza original. Llena de tiendas, la calle une el duomo (catedral) con la plaza del signori
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