DOP
Bra DOP
4 towns in our catalogue
The towns
Known for it
Inside the production zone
Towns of ours that the Bra DOP zone covers, read from the denomination鈥檚 own published rules. Lying inside a zone is a smaller claim than being the place people mean when they say the name, which is why these sit apart from the ones above.
Limone Piemonte
Province: Cuneo 路 1,000 m
A ski village at 1,000 meters in the Vermenagna valley, the southern end of the Alps where the Tenda tunnel drops toward the C么te d'Azur.
Ormea
Province: Cuneo 路 736 m
A heart-shaped Ligurian-Alps borgo at 736 meters in the upper Tanaro valley, near the border with Liguria.
Ostana
Province: Cuneo 路 1,280 m
An 87-resident Occitan-speaking alpine borgo at 1,280m in the upper Po valley, rebuilt from near-abandonment into an architecturally celebrated mountain village with a direct frontal view of Monviso.
Catalogue note: this is what we can document, not everything that qualifies. Where a zone is written in law as a whole province rather than a list of communes, we never expand it to towns, so a town missing here has not been ruled out. Plenty of comuni inside the wider zone also sit outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Deruta
Province: Perugia
A hill town at 218 meters on the left bank of the Tiber, the maiolica capital of central Italy since the late thirteenth century.
Fondi
Province: Latina
The plain town between the Ausoni and Aurunci mountains where the Caetani built a castle in the middle of farmland instead of on a hill.
Castellana Grotte
Province: Bari
A Murge town beside the cave system it is named for, three kilometers of galleries running 60 meters under the limestone plateau.
Laigueglia
Province: Savona
A former coral-fishing village on the Riviera di Ponente, with a curved Baroque parish church and a fishermen's grid of caruggi behind the beach.
Bagnoregio
Province: Viterbo
The Etruscan-founded hill town in Tuscia whose frazione Civita di Bagnoregio sits on an eroding tuff plateau, reachable only by footbridge.
Regions represented: Piemonte
