Activities in The Charlottesville Area

Pamper your palate tasting the award-winning wines at this winery and hotel, owned by northern Italians; then take in the views of the Blue Ridge Moun

The Warehouse District shop sells flirty silk tops and Frye boots.

A dimly lit college watering hole.

For more than 40 years, folks have flocked here for hand-rubbed, air-cured meats. Sandwiches are piled high with silky slices; pick up a bone-in whole

The music scene was fertile here B.D.M.B.—that is, before the Dave Matthews Band, which formed in Charlottesville in the early 1990s. These days, alte

Chuck Miller turns corn into Virginia Lightning, using an old family recipe and one of the state’s only legal moonshine stills.

Artisanal cheese from nearby farms

The shop spikes its ganache bonbons with ancho chile and candied ginger.

A hive of shops perfect for supplying a picnic basket.

in 1770, Jefferson sold some of the land surrounding Monticello, his sprawling Palladian home up in the hills just outside Charlottesville, to an Ital

The just-opened Mountfair Vineyards focuses on small-batch, Bordeaux-style blends.

The music scene was fertile here B.D.M.B.—that is, before the Dave Matthews Band, which formed in Charlottesville in the early 1990s. These days, alte

The music scene was fertile here B.D.M.B.—that is, before the Dave Matthews Band, which formed in Charlottesville in the early 1990s. These days, alte

Tour this Jefferson-built institution.

The winery makes a jammy Petit Verdot.