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Italy's smallest comuni

The smallest comuni in our catalogue, ranked by official ISTAT population. 60 towns shown, each under a thousand residents.

Table no. 1 · Ranked by residents · 60 towns

ISTAT counts residents, not visitors, and by that count these are the emptiest comuni we cover. Some are alpine villages that lost their young to the valley factories two generations ago. Some are hill towns that never had more than a few hundred people to begin with.

Small does not mean abandoned. Every town on this list still has a municipal government, a church that opens for the festa, and someone who unlocks the bar in the morning. What it lacks is crowd, and that is the point of coming.

  1. 1.Montelapiano75 residentsChieti · AbruzzoAt 740 meters on a limestone marl ridge in the middle Sangro valley, the smallest non-Alpine comune in Italy, population 67.
  2. 2.Ostana85 residentsCuneo · Piedmont
  3. 3.Monteferrante106 residentsChieti · Abruzzo
  4. 4.Bard108 residentsAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
  5. 5.Santo Stefano di Sessanio114 residentsL'Aquila · AbruzzoA Medici outpost at 1,250 meters, restored building by building since 1999 into Italy's first scattered hotel.
  6. 6.Castelvecchio Calvisio118 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
  7. 7.Calascio125 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
  8. 8.Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena130 residentsSavona · Liguria
  9. 9.Celle di San Vito148 residentsFoggia · Apulia
  10. 10.Usseaux175 residentsTorino · PiedmontA Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.

FIVE OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN ABRUZZO

  1. 11.Mombaldone197 residents · ASTI
  2. 12.Pietracamela218 residents · TERAMO
  3. 13.Percile219 residents · ROMA
  4. 14.Pescopennataro239 residents · ISERNIA
  5. 15.Castellaro Lagusello250 residents · MANTOVA
  6. 16.Montesegale258 residents · PAVIA
  7. 17.Castel di Tora266 residents · RIETI
  8. 18.Luserna267 residents · TRENTO
  9. 19.Ronco Canavese271 residents · TORINO
  10. 20.Seborga276 residents · IMPERIA
  11. 21.Zuccarello280 residents · SAVONA
  12. 22.Civitella Alfedena285 residents · L'AQUILA
  13. 23.Civitacampomarano302 residents · CAMPOBASSO
  14. 24.Capranica Prenestina306 residents · ROMA
  15. 25.Castel del Giudice308 residents · ISERNIA
  16. 26.Anversa degli Abruzzi312 residents · L'AQUILA
  17. 27.Pizzone313 residents · ISERNIA
  18. 28.Monte Rinaldo317 residents · FERMO
  19. 29.Vallo di Nera345 residents · PERUGIA
  20. 30.Labro355 residents · RIETI
  21. 31.Portofino355 residents · GENOVA
  22. 32.Alessandria del Carretto357 residents · COSENZA
  23. 33.Fortunago365 residents · PAVIA
  24. 34.Capraia Isola370 residents · LIVORNO
  25. 35.Triora373 residents · IMPERIA
  26. 36.Sauris389 residents · UDINE
  27. 37.Collalto Sabino391 residents · RIETI
  28. 38.Orvinio396 residents · RIETI
  29. 39.Bova416 residents · REGGIO DI CALABRIA
  30. 40.Fontainemore418 residents · AOSTA VALLEY
  31. 41.Ofena420 residents · L'AQUILA
  32. 42.Castel del Monte431 residents · L'AQUILA
  33. 43.Montresta438 residents · ORISTANO
  34. 44.Castel San Vincenzo440 residents · ISERNIA
  35. 45.Scheggino446 residents · PERUGIA
  36. 46.Cella Monte465 residents · ALESSANDRIA
  37. 47.Belgirate473 residents · VERBANO-CUSIO-OSSOLA
  38. 48.Fenestrelle476 residents · TORINO
  39. 49.Etroubles478 residents · AOSTA VALLEY
  40. 50.Isole Tremiti479 residents · FOGGIA
  41. 51.Serralunga di Crea503 residents · ALESSANDRIA
  42. 52.Madesimo507 residents · SONDRIO
  43. 53.Goriano Sicoli511 residents · L'AQUILA
  44. 54.Villalago511 residents · L'AQUILA
  45. 55.Macugnaga514 residents · VERBANO-CUSIO-OSSOLA
  46. 56.Moresco516 residents · FERMO
  47. 57.Guardia Perticara517 residents · POTENZA
  48. 58.Serralunga d'Alba527 residents · CUNEO
  49. 59.Scontrone533 residents · L'AQUILA
  50. 60.Cimbergo533 residents · BRESCIA

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