Recognitions
10 recognized borghi within an hour of an airport
Comuni holding at least one major recognition, within a 60 minute drive of an airport hub. 10 towns shown, ranked by recognitions held.
Table no. 30 · Ranked by recognitions · 10 towns
The recognized borgo and the low-cost flight rarely share a map. These comuni are the exceptions: at least one major recognition each, within an hour of an airport hub.
Ranked by recognitions held. For the long-weekend traveler this is the efficient frontier, landing to piazza in the time a city transfer takes.
- 1.Matera8 recognitionsMatera · BasilicataCave dwellings carved into limestone since the Paleolithic, called the shame of Italy in the 1950s and made European Capital of Culture in 2019.
- 2.Monzambano6 recognitionsMantova · LombardyA Mincio commune at 88 meters in the moraine hills west of Mantova, whose frazione Castellaro Lagusello sits on a heart-shaped lake inside fortified walls.
- 3.Asolo6 recognitionsTreviso · VenetoA walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.
- 4.Follina5 recognitionsTreviso · VenetoA Prosecco-hills borgo at 191 meters around the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria, with a cloister finished in 1268.
- 5.Nicolosi5 recognitionsCatania · SicilyThe southern gateway to Etna at 698 meters, twice destroyed by the 1669 eruption.
- 6.Senigallia5 recognitionsAncona · MarcheThirteen kilometers of fine sand on the Adriatic, hometown to a chef and a photographer whose names carry beyond the region.
- 7.Andria5 recognitionsBarletta-Andria-Trani · ApuliaFrederick II's favourite Apulian city, the birthplace of burrata, ruling the Murge plateau eighteen kilometers north of its most famous castle.
- 8.Livorno5 recognitionsLivorno · Tuscany
- 9.Furore4 recognitionsSalerno · CampaniaThe Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
- 10.Montescudaio4 recognitionsPisa · Tuscany
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