The complete list
Every town in our catalogue inside a national park
154 towns · 19 regions · the complete list

Scanno, Abruzzo
Italy has twenty-five national parks and people live in most of them. A town inside a park has rules about building and hunting and a wolf or a bear somewhere up the valley, and it usually has a visitor centre that will tell you where the path starts.
This is every town in our catalogue whose commune lies inside a national park, 154 of them across 19 regions, best-recognised first.

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.

Caramanico Terme
Province: Pescara · 650 m
A 650-meter Majella spa village at the confluence of the Orfento and Orta rivers.

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.

Fara San Martino
Province: Chieti · 440 m
A pasta-making town at 440 meters, where the Verde river runs out of a two-meter slot in the Majella wall.

Guardiagrele
Province: Chieti · 576 m
The 576-meter terrazza d'Abruzzo on the Majella's foothills, hometown of fifteenth-century goldsmith Nicola da Guardiagrele and seat of the Majella park.

Pretoro
Province: Chieti · 530 m
A village of 856 stacked at 530 meters on the eastern Maiella, where wolves live behind fencing and woodturners still work on Via Roma.

Pacentro
Province: L'Aquila · 650 m
A medieval village at 650 meters under the Caldora castle towers, where every September a barefoot race honors a Madonna and a pop singer's grandparents.

Pettorano sul Gizio
Province: L'Aquila · 656 m
At 656 meters above the Gizio river, a Cantelmo fortress town that guarded the gateway to the Peligna valley for four hundred years.

Pietracamela
Province: Teramo · 1,005 m
A village of 218 people clinging at 1,005 meters under the north wall of Corno Piccolo, birthplace of Italian Apennine climbing in 1925.

Civitella del Tronto
Province: Teramo · 589 m
A rocky crest at 589 meters above the Tronto valley, crowned by the last Bourbon fortress to surrender to united Italy in March 1861.
The rest of the 154
Abruzzo24
- Santo Stefano di Sessanio
- Castel del Monte
- Lama dei Peligni
- Civitella Alfedena
- Campli
- Barrea
- Rivisondoli
- Campo di Giove
- Corfinio
- Calascio
- Castelvecchio Calvisio
- Roccacasale
- Roccamorice
- Villetta Barrea
- Roccaraso
- Ofena
- Alfedena
- Pescasseroli
- Tocco da Casauria
- Capestrano
- L'Aquila
- Manoppello
- Sulmona
- Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia
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Basilicata9
Calabria16
Campania23
Emilia-Romagna4
Lazio6
Liguria4
Lombardy3
Marche6
Molise8
Piedmont4
Apulia13
Sardinia9
Sicily1
Tuscany8
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol1
Umbria2
Aosta Valley2
Veneto1
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