Day trips
Where to go for the day
547 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
19 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
Rivello
Province: Potenza
A 479-meter ridge above the Noce valley where Lombards and Byzantines lived side by side, holding Latin and Greek rites until the seventeenth century.
Calvello
Province: Potenza
A 730-meter ceramic town working clay since 1200, when Benedictines from Faenza brought the wheel south.
Sabaudia
Province: Latina
A rationalist city built in 253 days on drained Pontine marshland, founded 15 April 1934 between Lago di Paola and the Tyrrhenian dunes.
San Benedetto Po
Province: Mantova
A former river island whose entire existence traces back to the Benedictine abbey founded on it in 1007.
Châtillon
Province: Aosta Valley
The Aosta Valley's three-castle commune, a 4,358-resident town at 549m at the mouth of the Valtournenche where it meets the main valley, with direct access up the road to the Cervino/Matterhorn at Cervinia 26 km north.