Elevation
Balcony towns: high villages above the Ligurian sea
Ligurian comuni that sit at 250 meters or more, a coastline looked at from above. 10 towns shown, highest first.
Table no. 21 · Ranked by m · 10 towns
Liguria is famous horizontally, for the five towns at sea level that absorb the region's entire tourist load. Vertically it is a different country: villages at two hundred and fifty meters and up, hung above the coast in the terraced hills.
From these towns the sea is a view rather than a beach, which is why nobody queues for them. Highest first.
- 1.Santo Stefano d'Aveto1,012 mGenova · LiguriaLiguria's highest commune, set in the Ligurian-Emilian Apennines with a Malaspina-Doria castle and the region's only ski resort.
- 2.Triora776 mImperia · Liguria
- 3.Perinaldo572 mImperia · Liguria
- 4.Seborga517 mImperia · Liguria
- 5.Millesimo429 mSavona · Liguria
- 6.Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena420 mSavona · Liguria
- 7.Sassello381 mSavona · Liguria
- 8.Ceriana369 mImperia · Liguria
- 9.Varese Ligure358 mLa Spezia · Liguria
- 10.Campo Ligure342 mGenova · Liguria
TEN OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN LIGURIA
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