The Venostes were a Celtic or Rhaetian tribe dwelling in the present-day Vinschgau Valley (Val Venosta) during the Iron Age.
[2] They could have been located south of the Focunates, west of the Isarci and Brixentes (there is, though, no scholarly agreement where the Brixentes lived),[3] north of the Tuliassi, and east of the Rugusci.
[4] They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.
[2] The Venostes appear as the fourth tribe in the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium.
In the secondary tradition of the text by Pliny the Elder their position in the list was exchanged with the Vennonetes and the Venostes appear as the third tribe.