Day trips
Where to go for the day
551 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
23 towns within 90 minutes
From Napoli
38 towns within 90 minutes
From Palermo
13 towns within 90 minutes
From Perugia
43 towns within 90 minutes
From Potenza
20 towns within 90 minutes
From Roma
35 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
Plan a slow trip across the towns travelers skip.
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
San Giovanni in Marignano
Province: Rimini
A walled Conca-valley borgo, granary of the Malatesta state, where the Notte delle Streghe has marked the summer solstice since 1988.
Urbino
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
The Montefeltro capital at 451 meters on twin hills, where Federico II built the Renaissance court that produced Raffaello.
Polignano a Mare
Province: Bari
The Adriatic cliff town thirty kilometers south of Bari, built on a twenty-metre limestone bluff, birthplace of Domenico Modugno.
Alleghe
Province: Belluno
A lakeside village at 979 meters, formed in 1771 when ten million cubic meters of rock crashed into the Cordevole.
Zuccarello
Province: Savona
A 280-person medieval borgo in the Neva valley above Albenga, founded by the Marquises of Clavesana in 1248, birthplace of Ilaria del Carretto.