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10 comuni with a station and under 3,000 people
Comuni with an active railway station and fewer than 3,000 residents. 10 towns shown, smallest first.
Table no. 11 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
The Italian railway network was built when these towns were bigger, and the stations stayed after the people left. The result is a specific kind of luck: comuni of under three thousand residents that you can still reach without a car.
Smallest first. Check the current timetable before you commit an itinerary to any of them; a station on the map is a fact, a convenient departure time is a hope.
- 1.Monteviasco12 residentsVarese · LombardyA near-abandoned mountain frazione of Curiglia con Monteviasco at 928 metres above the Veddasca valley — historically reached only by an aerial cable-car since 1989 (since suspended) or a 1,400-step stone staircase, with permanent population in the single digits.
- 2.Bard108 residentsAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
- 3.Mombaldone197 residentsAsti · Piedmont
- 4.Anversa degli Abruzzi312 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoAt 604 meters above the Sagittario Gorges, a cliff village built around a Norman castle rebuilt by the Counts of Sangro.
- 5.Vallo di Nera345 residentsPerugia · Umbria
- 6.Belgirate473 residentsVerbano-Cusio-Ossola · PiedmontA small Lake Maggiore village at 199 meters whose Chiesa Vecchia di Santa Maria has held its 11th-century Romanesque bell tower for nine hundred years.
- 7.Goriano Sicoli511 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoAt 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
- 8.Verduno567 residentsCuneo · PiedmontA Langhe hilltop at 381 meters, the home village of the Pelaverga grape.
- 9.Framura577 residentsLa Spezia · LiguriaFive hamlets between sea level and 300 meters on the Riviera di Levante, with Byzantine watchtowers built against Saracen incursions.
- 10.Roccacasale597 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
THREE OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN PIEDMONT
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