Population
The 10 smallest comuni in Tuscany
Tuscany's smallest comuni in the catalogue, by official ISTAT population. 10 towns shown.
Table no. 15 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
Tuscany's fame concentrates in a dozen names, which leaves its smallest comuni to get on with their lives. These are the emptiest in our Tuscan catalogue, by official resident count.
An island, a handful of Apennine villages, some Maremma hill towns. None of them needs you, which is the best possible condition for a visit.
- 1.Capraia Isola370 residentsLivorno · Tuscany
- 2.Casale Marittimo1,051 residentsPisa · TuscanyA concentric stone borgo at 214 meters above the Val di Cecina, built where a seventh-century BC Etruscan outpost of Volterra once stood.
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Radicofani1,060 residentsSiena · TuscanyThe Val d'Orcia's basalt watchtower: a 1,060-resident UNESCO-inscribed borgo at 814m on a volcanic outcrop visible across half of southern Tuscany, crowned by an outlaw's fortress that Dante and Boccaccio both wrote into their pages. - 4.Trequanda1,166 residentsSiena · TuscanyA village of 1,166 in three hilltop borghi between Crete Senesi and Val di Chiana, with the terracotta workshops of Petroio holding to a five-hundred-year craft.
- 5.Isola del Giglio1,330 residentsGrosseto · TuscanyA granite island in the Tyrrhenian Archipelago, walled village on the ridge, port below, where the Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012.
- 6.San Casciano dei Bagni1,500 residentsSiena · TuscanyA hilltop borgo at 582 meters above 42 hot springs that produced the largest Etruscan bronze hoard of the last fifty years.
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Castiglione di Garfagnana1,705 residentsLucca · TuscanyA walled medieval town at 540 meters in the Garfagnana, the Lucca outpost that refused to submit to the Este and held the pass to San Pellegrino. - 8.Chiusdino1,751 residentsSiena · TuscanyA medieval village at 564 meters in the Val di Merse, above a roofless Cistercian abbey.
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Abetone Cutigliano1,825 residentsPistoia · TuscanyThe Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border. - 10.
Pienza1,976 residentsSiena · TuscanyThe first Renaissance ideal city, built from 1459 on the Val d'Orcia ridge.
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