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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.Civitacampomarano302 residents · CAMPOBASSO
  13. 23.Capranica Prenestina306 residents · ROMA
  14. 24.Castel del Giudice308 residents · ISERNIA
  15. 25.Anversa degli Abruzzi312 residents · L'AQUILA
  16. 26.Pizzone313 residents · ISERNIA
  17. 27.Monte Rinaldo317 residents · FERMO
  18. 28.Vallo di Nera345 residents · PERUGIA
  19. 29.Labro355 residents · RIETI
  20. 30.Portofino355 residents · GENOVA
  21. 31.Alessandria del Carretto357 residents · COSENZA
  22. 32.Fortunago365 residents · PAVIA
  23. 33.Capraia Isola370 residents · LIVORNO
  24. 34.Triora373 residents · IMPERIA
  25. 35.Sauris389 residents · UDINE
  26. 36.Collalto Sabino391 residents · RIETI
  27. 37.Orvinio396 residents · RIETI
  28. 38.Bova416 residents · REGGIO DI CALABRIA
  29. 39.Fontainemore418 residents · AOSTA VALLEY
  30. 40.Ofena420 residents · L'AQUILA
  31. 41.Castel del Monte431 residents · L'AQUILA
  32. 42.Montresta438 residents · ORISTANO
  33. 43.Castel San Vincenzo440 residents · ISERNIA
  34. 44.Scheggino446 residents · PERUGIA
  35. 45.Cella Monte465 residents · ALESSANDRIA
  36. 46.Belgirate473 residents · VERBANO-CUSIO-OSSOLA
  37. 47.Fenestrelle476 residents · TORINO
  38. 48.Etroubles478 residents · AOSTA VALLEY
  39. 49.Isole Tremiti479 residents · FOGGIA
  40. 50.Serralunga di Crea503 residents · ALESSANDRIA
  41. 51.Madesimo507 residents · SONDRIO
  42. 52.Goriano Sicoli511 residents · L'AQUILA
  43. 53.Villalago511 residents · L'AQUILA
  44. 54.Macugnaga514 residents · VERBANO-CUSIO-OSSOLA
  45. 55.Moresco516 residents · FERMO
  46. 56.Guardia Perticara517 residents · POTENZA
  47. 57.Serralunga d'Alba527 residents · CUNEO
  48. 58.Scontrone533 residents · L'AQUILA
  49. 59.Cimbergo533 residents · BRESCIA
  50. 60.Navelli537 residents · L'AQUILA

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