Day trips
Where to go for the day
548 towns from 21 cities
Pick the city you are staying in. Every town listed is within a 90-minute drive of it, measured on real roads rather than in a straight line. Regional capitals only, so a base like Verona or Pisa will not have its own list yet.
From Ancona
49 towns within 90 minutes
From Aosta
13 towns within 90 minutes
From Bari
25 towns within 90 minutes
From Bologna
24 towns within 90 minutes
From Bolzano
11 towns within 90 minutes
From Cagliari
5 towns within 90 minutes
From Campobasso
25 towns within 90 minutes
From Catanzaro
14 towns within 90 minutes
From Firenze
39 towns within 90 minutes
From Genova
38 towns within 90 minutes
From L'Aquila
44 towns within 90 minutes
From Milano
24 towns within 90 minutes
From Napoli
37 towns within 90 minutes
From Palermo
13 towns within 90 minutes
From Perugia
42 towns within 90 minutes
From Potenza
20 towns within 90 minutes
From Roma
33 towns within 90 minutes
From Torino
36 towns within 90 minutes
From Trento
15 towns within 90 minutes
From Trieste
19 towns within 90 minutes
From Venezia
22 towns within 90 minutes
The slow-trip planner
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.