The best small mountain towns in Italy above 500 metres, all of them

Above five hundred metres the air changes, the building stone changes, and the towns stop being places you pass through and start being places you arrive at. Italy has two mountain chains and both are full of villages that were poor for centuries and are now the quietest, coolest places in the country in August.

This is every town in our catalogue that sits in the mountains at or above 500 metres, 213 of them across 20 regions, best-recognised first. Type a region or a province to narrow it.