Population
10 comuni smaller than a cruise ship's passenger list
A large cruise ship carries about 3,000 passengers. These comuni hold fewer people than one boat. 10 towns shown, smallest first.
Table no. 17 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
A large cruise ship carries about three thousand passengers. Every comune on this list holds fewer people than one boat, which puts the day-tripper economics of Venice and Civitavecchia in a certain light.
Ten towns, smallest first. Any one of them receives fewer visitors in a year than a liner disembarks before lunch.
- 1.Montelapiano75 residentsChieti · AbruzzoAt 740 meters on a limestone marl ridge in the middle Sangro valley, the smallest non-Alpine comune in Italy, population 67.
- 2.Ostana85 residentsCuneo · Piedmont
- 3.Monteferrante106 residentsChieti · Abruzzo
- 4.Bard108 residentsAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
- 5.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.
- 6.Castelvecchio Calvisio118 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
- 7.Calascio125 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
- 8.Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena130 residentsSavona · Liguria
- 9.Celle di San Vito148 residentsFoggia · Apulia
- 10.Usseaux175 residentsTorino · PiedmontA Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.
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