Population
10 comuni under 1,000 people within an hour of a major city
Comuni under 1,000 residents within a 60 minute drive of their nearest major city. 10 towns shown, smallest first.
Table no. 20 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
The assumption is that emptiness requires remoteness. These comuni disprove it: under a thousand residents each, within an hour's drive of a major city.
They survived the century by being overlooked rather than isolated. For the traveler that means city flights and country silence on the same tank of fuel.
- 1.Celle di San Vito148 residentsFoggia · Apulia
- 2.Percile219 residentsRoma · Lazio
- 3.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.
- 4.Luserna267 residentsTrento · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolA Cimbrian island at 1,333 metres on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
- 5.Vallo di Nera345 residentsPerugia · Umbria
- 6.Labro355 residentsRieti · Lazio
- 7.Orvinio396 residentsRieti · LazioThe highest borgo in the Monti Lucretili park at 840 meters, called Canemorto until 1863.
- 8.Ofena420 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoA 531-meter Vestian basin called the Forno d'Abruzzo, where Montepulciano ripens on what may be the oldest of its slopes.
- 9.Scheggino446 residentsPerugia · UmbriaTriangular castle village on the banks of the Nera at 280 meters, where the first commercial Italian truffle company was founded in 1928.
- 10.Cella Monte465 residentsAlessandria · Piedmont
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