Colle Umberto | |
Official Name: | Comune di Colle Umberto |
Native Name: | Cołe Unberto |
Coordinates: | 45.95°N 33°W |
Region: | Veneto |
Province: | Treviso (TV) |
Frazioni: | San Martino di Colle Umberto telephone = 0438 |
Mayor: | Sebastiano Coletti |
Area Total Km2: | 13.6 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 5081 |
Population As Of: | 30 June 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Collumbertesi |
Elevation M: | 144 |
Postal Code: | 31014 |
Colle Umberto (vec|Cołe Unberto) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 60km (40miles) north of Venice and about 30km (20miles) north of Treviso.
Colle Umberto borders the following municipalities: Cappella Maggiore, Conegliano, Cordignano, Godega di Sant'Urbano, San Fior, Vittorio Veneto.
The town's most visited place is the Villa Verecondi Scortecci owned by an old upper-class Venetian family.
The frazione of San Martino was the birthplace of Ottavio Bottecchia, the first Italian to win the Tour de France in both 1924 and 1925, but he died mysteriously at the height of career during a training ride in Friuli, at Trasaghis. There is a local move to create a museum to him.
The town is twinned with the following: