The complete list

Every town in our catalogue above 1,000 metres

66 towns · 15 regions · the complete list

Scanno, Abruzzo

A thousand metres is where Italy stops being warm. Above it the villages were built for winter, with the woodpile against the wall and the church tower as the only vertical thing for miles, and in summer they are where the cities empty to.

This is every town in our catalogue at or above 1,000 metres, 66 of them across 15 regions, best-recognised first. Not all of them are in the Alps.

66 towns

Scanno
Province: L'Aquila · 1,057 m
A 1,057-meter Sagittario valley village where women in black still walk the alleys photographed by Cartier-Bresson and Giacomelli.
Petralia Soprana
Province: Palermo · 1,147 m
The highest village in the Madonie at 1,147 meters, RAI Borgo dei Borghi 2018 winner, sitting above 80 kilometers of salt tunnels.
Sappada
Province: Udine · 1,250 m
A German-speaking alpine village at 1,250 meters near the source of the Piave, settled from East Tyrol in the eleventh century and Italian since 1852.
Gangi
Province: Palermo · 1,011 m
A Madonie hill town stacked in concentric rings at 1,011 meters, RAI's Borgo dei Borghi 2014 and the launching pad for the one-euro-house programme.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno · 1,143 m
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
Usseaux
Province: Torino · 1,416 m
A Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.
Etroubles
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,280 m
A 478-person Alpine village at 1,280 metres, with an open-air contemporary art museum and the region's first dairy.
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Abetone Cutigliano
Province: Pistoia · 1,388 m
The Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border.
Pescocostanzo
Province: L'Aquila · 1,395 m
A planned Renaissance town at 1,395 meters on the Quarto Grande plateau, with bobbin lace, wrought iron, and the wood ceilings of a five-nave church.
Geraci Siculo
Province: Palermo · 1,077 m
A Madonie ridge village at 1,077 meters, capital of the Ventimiglia marquisate from 1258 and the first marquisate granted in Sicily.

The rest of the 66

11.PietracamelaTERAMO
12.Petralia SottanaPALERMO
13.Santo Stefano di SessanioL'AQUILA
14.Castel del MonteL'AQUILA
15.Alagna ValsesiaVERCELLI
16.LusernaTRENTO
17.Civitella AlfedenaL'AQUILA
18.PietrapertosaPOTENZA

Scanno

Petralia Soprana

Sappada

Gangi

Rocca Pietore

Usseaux

Etroubles

Abetone Cutigliano

Pescocostanzo

Geraci Siculo

The rest of the 66

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