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The 10 smallest comuni in Tuscany
Ten towns: what each is best for, what a home costs, and the catch. A square meter runs from €670 in Castiglione di Garfagnana to €3,800 in Capraia Isola.
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 Isola358 residentsLivorno · TuscanyBest for walks in a national park. Part of the comune lies in a national park.homes €2,550 to €3,800 a m² in the center
- 2.Radicofani1,044 residentsSiena · TuscanyBest for a World Heritage site. UNESCO lists a site in the comune.1 h 28 min from Perugia · homes €850 to €1,200 a m² in the centerThe Val d'Orcia's basalt watchtower: a 1,044-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.
- 3.Casale Marittimo1,073 residentsPisa · TuscanyBest for a walk through the old town. It is on the list of Italy's most beautiful villages.50 min from Livorno · homes €1,300 to €2,000 a m² in the centerA concentric stone borgo at 214 meters above the Val di Cecina, built where a seventh-century BC Etruscan outpost of Volterra once stood.
- 4.Trequanda1,137 residentsSiena · TuscanyBest for a long lunch. Food guides list two tables here.1 h 7 min from Perugia · homes €900 to €1,350 a m² in the centerA village of 1,137 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 Giglio1,271 residentsGrosseto · TuscanyBest for walks in a national park. Part of the comune lies in a national park.homes €1,650 to €2,450 a m² in the centerA 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 Bagni1,421 residentsSiena · TuscanyBest for a soak. The comune has thermal baths.1 h 6 min from Perugia · homes €740 to €1,050 a m² in the centerA 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 Garfagnana1,701 residentsLucca · TuscanyBest for a ski week. There is a mapped ski area in the comune.1 h 35 min from Pisa · homes €670 to €900 a m² in the centerA 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.Chiusdino1,702 residentsSiena · TuscanyBest for olive oil. It belongs to the national association of olive oil towns.1 h 52 min from Florence · homes €680 to €970 a m² in the centerA medieval village at 564 meters in the Val di Merse, above a roofless Cistercian abbey.
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Abetone Cutigliano1,829 residentsPistoia · TuscanyBest for a slow weekend. The Touring Club gives it its orange flag for small inland towns.1 h 17 min from Prato · homes €1,250 to €1,700 a m² in the centerThe Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border.The catch: It has lost 15% of its people since 2015. - 10.
Pienza1,928 residentsSiena · TuscanyBest for a World Heritage site. UNESCO lists a site in the comune.1 h 35 min from Perugia · homes €1,350 to €1,950 a m² in the centerThe first Renaissance ideal city, built from 1459 on the Val d'Orcia ridge.
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