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Towns 20 minutes from a famous city, in a different world
Comuni 25 minutes or less from their nearest major hub city. One is on every itinerary; the other is in this catalogue. 10 pairs shown, closest first.
Table no. 51 · Ranked by min · 10 towns
Twenty five minutes is nothing, a podcast segment, a metro delay. It is also the full distance between cities every traveler knows and towns almost none visit.
Each comune here sits that close to its nearest major hub. One of the pair is on every itinerary; the other is in this catalogue, closest first.
- 1.Siracusa0 min from SiracusaSiracusa · SicilyOrtigia island, wrapped in honey-coloured Baroque stone, sits at the heart of the city Cicero called the most beautiful in the world, on the eastern Sicilian coast south of Catania.
- 2.Udine2 min from UdineUdine · Friuli-Venezia GiuliaThe historic capital of Friuli, built around a man-made castle hill.
- 3.Ravenna3 min from RavennaRavenna · Emilia-RomagnaA 4-meter coastal capital of three successive empires, with eight UNESCO mosaic monuments from the fifth and sixth centuries.
- 4.Bergamo3 min from BergamoBergamo · LombardyA two-city Lombard capital where a Venetian walled hilltown sits 85 meters above its modern twin on the plain, 45 kilometers northeast of Milan.
- 5.Padova3 min from PadovaPadova · VenetoThe university town that gave Giotto a chapel and the world a science of plants, with two UNESCO inscriptions inside one set of walls.
- 6.Vicenza3 min from VicenzaVicenza · Veneto
- 7.Parma4 min from ParmaParma · Emilia-RomagnaA 57-meter Po-plain capital on the Via Emilia, where Correggio painted the Duomo dome and Parmigiano ages in vaults across the province.
- 8.Trento4 min from TrentoTrento · Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
- 9.Ferrara6 min from FerraraFerrara · Emilia-RomagnaA Renaissance capital planned on a grid rather than grown by accident, small enough to cross by bicycle in twenty minutes, and ringed by walls that still stand whole.
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San Giuliano Terme8 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyA thermal spa ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae.
THREE OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA
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