Booking required
Around the festival there is a landscape to walk through: the vineyards above the village, the castle that watches over it, the historic cellars and the houses that tell five hundred years of Avio.
A scenic guided walk through the vineyards, with a tasting at the end. Departing from piazza Vittorio Emanuele III.
Includes a visit to the parish church of Avio, the story of the Pellegrini-Malfatti counts and a visit to the Casa del Vicario. Refreshments at the end. Departing from piazza Vittorio Emanuele III.
Guided visit to the estate of the Guerrieri Gonzaga marquises at San Leonardo: church, cellar, park and farming museum. Reached by shuttle bus from piazza Vittorio Emanuele III.
Cared for by the FAI, Italy’s national trust. The medieval castle that watches over the village, with its celebrated fourteenth-century frescoes.
A free guide is on site for visitors. The Casa del Vicario also houses the Antiquarium, with finds from the area.
Information and bookings
comitatouvaedintorni@gmail.com
320 0533005
Places are limited: it is worth booking a few days ahead.
The landscape
Avio and its hamlets lie in the Vallagarina, where the valley narrows between mountain and river. It is a landscape of vines going back centuries, and the festival walks exist above all to show it close up: the rows, the dry-stone walls, the cellars dug beneath the houses.