The Veneto Region lies in the North East of the Italian peninsula and presents considerable variety in its natural environment and its cities.

In its 18,000 square kilometers , it goes from the sea, with lagoons and river mouths, to broad plains and hills with villas, castles walled towns, lakes and spas, up to the foothills of the Alps and the superb bastions of the Dolomites.

A wealth of culture and environment, then, completed by intense economic and industrial activity with unexpected facets of pre-industrial and contemporary architecture.

If it is all but superfluous to call the city of Venice and its wonder to mind, it must be said that the Veneto has a rich panorama of cities of art. There is Verona, with her spectacular Arena, there is Vicenza, recently put on the UNESCO World Heritage List for all her Palladio architecture, both in the town and around it, and there is Padua with a historical heritage coming from all centuries and a civic life that involves not only the Palazzo della Ragione but the Basilica del Santo, The Botanic Gardens, the Anatomy Theatre of one of the oldest universities in Europe and Prato della Valle.

On the side of natural environment, there is Cortina, called "the pearl of the Dolomites", and the majestic Marmolada glacier, towering over a whole spectrum of landscape, from the austere to the gentle, with the Euganean and the Montello hills, the luxuriant banks of the Lake Garda, down to abundantly-watered plains, the Po Delta and the Adriatic Sea.