Elevation
The highest comune in each region of Italy
The single highest comune the catalogue holds in each region. 20 regions represented, highest first.
Table no. 22 · Ranked by m · 20 towns
Every Italian region has a rooftop. This list finds the highest comune the catalogue holds in each of them, from the Alpine north to the islands.
Twenty entries, one per region, ranked by altitude. Sicily's entry outclimbs half the Alps' foothills, which surprises everyone the first time.
- 1.Livigno1,816 mSondrio · LombardyAt 1,816 meters in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border, a duty-free ski valley that drains north into the Black Sea, not the Mediterranean.
- 2.Ayas1,710 mAosta Valley · Aosta ValleyA scattered upper-valley commune of three villages, where Walser settlers and Romance-speaking herders share the slopes below Castor and Pollux.
- 3.Corvara in Badia1,568 mBolzano · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolThe Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
- 4.Capracotta1,421 mIsernia · MoliseAt 1,421 meters the second-highest commune in central Italy, holder of the world record for snowfall in 24 hours: 2.56 meters on 5 March 2015.
- 5.Usseaux1,416 mTorino · PiedmontA Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.
- 6.Pescocostanzo1,395 mL'Aquila · AbruzzoA planned Renaissance town at 1,395 meters on the Quarto Grande plateau, with bobbin lace, wrought iron, and the wood ceilings of a five-nave church.
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Abetone Cutigliano1,388 mPistoia · TuscanyThe Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border. - 8.Sappada1,250 mUdine · Friuli-Venezia GiuliaA German-speaking alpine village at 1,250 meters near the source of the Piave, settled from East Tyrol in the eleventh century and Italian since 1852.
- 9.Cortina d'Ampezzo1,224 mBelluno · VenetoThe Queen of the Dolomites at 1,224 meters, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of Milano-Cortina 2026.
- 10.Petralia Soprana1,147 mPalermo · SicilyThe highest village in the Madonie at 1,147 meters, RAI Borgo dei Borghi 2018 winner, sitting above 80 kilometers of salt tunnels.
- 11.Pietrapertosa1,088 m · POTENZA
- 12.San Giovanni in Fiore1,049 m · COSENZA
- 13.Sestola1,020 m · MODENA
- 14.Santo Stefano d'Aveto1,012 m · GENOVA
- 15.Fonni1,000 m · NUORO
- 16.Collalto Sabino980 m · RIETI
- 17.Monteleone di Spoleto978 m · PERUGIA
- 18.Letino961 m · CASERTA
- 19.Monte Sant'Angelo843 m · FOGGIA
- 20.Arquata del Tronto777 m · ASCOLI PICENO
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