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The towns under 1,000 people, above 500 meters, with a train station
Three filters at once: fewer than 1,000 residents, 500 meters or higher, an active railway station. The catalogue holds 2 such towns, all shown.
Table no. 48 · Ranked by residents · 2 towns
Three filters, applied at once, that almost nothing survives: fewer than a thousand residents, five hundred meters of altitude, a working railway station. The catalogue holds only a handful of such towns.
They exist mostly where mountain lines were built through country that later emptied. The train arrives anyway, which is the whole romance of them.
- 1.Goriano Sicoli512 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoBest for a trip without a car. The train stops in the commune.1 h 8 min from Pescara · homes €370 to €540 a m² in the centerAt 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
- 2.Civita d'Antino939 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoBest for a trip without a car. The train stops in the commune.1 h 40 min from Rome · homes €380 to €550 a m² in the centerAt 904 meters above the Roveto valley, the ancient Marsi town that became a Danish painters' colony from 1883 until the 1915 earthquake.
We write letters from the Italian towns we visit: the town, what is worth eating there, and when to turn up. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.
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