Recognitions
10 Borghi più belli d'Italia that stay empty anyway
Borghi più belli d'Italia comuni under 1,000 residents, recognition without the coach parking. 10 towns shown, smallest first.
Table no. 26 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
Recognition is supposed to bring visitors. For these Borghi più belli d'Italia members, all under a thousand residents, it mostly brought a plaque.
The reasons vary: a road that ends there, a province off the flight paths, stronger names nearby. The result is the same, certified beauty with room to stand.
- 1.Cornello dei Tasso50 residentsBergamo · LombardyA car-free medieval frazione of Camerata Cornello in the Val Brembana, reachable only on foot, built around the family that ran Europe's first integrated postal network.
- 2.Ostana85 residentsCuneo · Piedmont
- 3.Bard108 residentsAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
- 4.Santo Stefano di Sessanio114 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoA Medici outpost at 1,250 meters, restored building by building since 1999 into Italy's first scattered hotel.
- 5.Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena130 residentsSavona · Liguria
- 6.Usseaux175 residentsTorino · PiedmontA Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.
- 7.Mombaldone197 residentsAsti · Piedmont
- 8.Pietracamela218 residentsTeramo · Abruzzo
- 9.Percile219 residentsRoma · Lazio
- 10.Castellaro Lagusello250 residentsMantova · LombardyA walled medieval borgo south of Lake Garda, ringed by 13th-century stone walls and overlooking a small heart-shaped natural lake that gives the village its second name and most-photographed silhouette.
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