Population
Italian towns with fewer than 200 people
Every comune in the catalogue with fewer than 200 residents. 11 towns, smallest first. The catalogue holds 11 of them, not a round ten.
Table no. 16 · Ranked by residents · 11 towns
Below two hundred residents a town stops being an economy and becomes an act of will. Someone keeps the anagrafe open, someone rings the bells, someone mows the cemetery. These are all the comuni in the catalogue at that scale.
Visit gently. In a town of one hundred and fifty, a party of four is a demographic event.
- 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.Ostana85 residentsCuneo · Piedmont
- 3.Monteferrante106 residentsChieti · Abruzzo
- 4.Bard108 residentsAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
- 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.Castelvecchio Calvisio118 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
- 7.Calascio125 residentsL'Aquila · Abruzzo
- 8.Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena130 residentsSavona · Liguria
- 9.Celle di San Vito148 residentsFoggia · Apulia
- 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.
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