Silence
The 10 quietest coastal towns in Italy
The silence index scores every catalogued comune from the numbers alone: residents, people per square kilometre, drive time to the nearest airport hub, distance from the nearest big town, and whether a train reaches it. Higher means more silent. These are the 10 highest scores among comuni our catalogue classes as coastal or island.
Table no. 58 · Ranked by silence · 10 towns
The Italian coast is where silence goes to die every June. But the shoreline is long, the famous stretches are short, and the catalogue holds coastal and island comuni that stay quiet by the numbers even with the sea at the door.
These are the ten highest silence scores among them. August will still be August; the other eleven months are yours.
- 1.Capraia Isola94 / 100 silenceLivorno · TuscanyA volcanic island of 370 residents and one village, a penal colony from 1873 to 1986 and a national park since.
- 2.Pisciotta80 / 100 silenceSalerno · CampaniaA Cilento hilltop town of olive terraces above the Tyrrhenian, where fishermen still pull anchovies with a medieval net.
- 3.Isola del Giglio78 / 100 silenceGrosseto · TuscanyA granite island in the Tyrrhenian Archipelago, walled village on the ridge, port below, where the Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012.
- 4.Stintino78 / 100 silenceSassari · SardiniaThe northernmost tip of north-west Sardinia and the gateway to Asinara National Park, fronted by a shallow-shelf beach under an Aragonese watchtower.
- 5.Posada76 / 100 silenceNuoro · SardiniaThe capital of the Baronia, a 3,000-person village on a 71-meter rock with a 13th-century tower over the valley.
- 6.Roseto Capo Spulico76 / 100 silenceCosenza · CalabriaA castle on a rock above the Ionian, in a village that began as a satellite of Sybaris in the seventh century BC.
- 7.Isole Tremiti76 / 100 silenceFoggia · ApuliaAn Adriatic archipelago of five islands twenty-two kilometers off the Gargano, the only Italian commune scattered across an open-sea group.
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Vernazza76 / 100 silenceLa Spezia · LiguriaThe middle village of the coast, the only one with a natural harbor, buried under four meters of mud in October 2011. - 9.Santa Teresa Gallura75 / 100 silenceSassari · SardiniaThe northernmost town in Sardinia, founded in 1808 on a Turin-style grid above the Strait of Bonifacio and 11 kilometers from Corsica.
- 10.San Nicola Arcella74 / 100 silenceCosenza · CalabriaA cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where a sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.
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