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The 10 highest towns with a train station
Comuni with an active railway station, ranked by elevation. 10 towns shown, highest first.
Table no. 13 · Ranked by m · 10 towns
Rail and altitude rarely agree. Where they do, the engineering is usually Habsburg or heroic, and the ride in is half the reason to go. These are the highest comuni in the catalogue that keep an active station.
Ranked by elevation. The upper entries sit on the great alpine lines, which run in winter too, when the roads up have other ideas.
- 1.Toblach1,256 mBolzano · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolThe Val Pusteria gateway where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
- 2.Roccaraso1,236 mL'Aquila · AbruzzoAt 1,236 meters, the south of Italy's largest ski resort, leveled in 1943 and rebuilt from rubble.
- 3.Innichen1,175 mBolzano · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolAn Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 metres on the Austrian border, built around a Romanesque church and facing the Dolomites to the south.
- 4.Campo di Giove1,064 mL'Aquila · AbruzzoAt 1,064 meters under the southwestern Maiella, the highest village in the park, named for a Roman temple to Jupiter.
- 5.San Giovanni in Fiore1,049 mCosenza · CalabriaThe capital of the Sila Grande at 1,049 meters, Italy's most populated commune above a thousand.
- 6.Limone Piemonte1,000 mCuneo · PiedmontA ski village at 1,000 meters in the Vermenagna valley, the southern end of the Alps where the Tenda tunnel drops toward the Côte d'Azur.
- 7.Petralia Sottana1,000 mPalermo · SicilyA Madonie village at 1,000 meters, the only Bandiera Arancione in Sicily, and the headquarters of the Parco delle Madonie.
- 8.Sante Marie950 mL'Aquila · Abruzzo
- 9.Sterzing948 mBolzano · Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
- 10.Monteviasco928 mVarese · Lombardy
THREE OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE/SÜDTIROL
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