IGP
Prosciutto di Norcia IGP
3 towns in our catalogue
The towns
Known for it
Inside the production zone
Towns of ours that the Prosciutto di Norcia IGP 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.
Cascia
Province: Perugia 路 653 m
Santa Rita's town at 653 meters in the upper Valnerina, in the seismic corner of Umbria that the 2016 earthquake reopened.
Preci
Province: Perugia 路 596 m
A walled Valnerina village at 596 meters that ran Europe's leading school of surgery for three centuries until the 2016 quake brought the borgo down.
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
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 610-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Taormina
Province: Messina
A terrace on Monte Tauro above the Ionian, with Etna on the southern horizon.
Staffolo
Province: Ancona
The Verdicchio balcony at 442 meters above three valleys, with a near-circular medieval wall ring and a wine museum carved into the ramparts.
Roseto Capo Spulico
Province: Cosenza
A castle on a rock above the Ionian, in a village that began as a satellite of Sybaris in the seventh century BC.
Cantiano
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A border borgo at 374 meters under Monte Catria, known for the Good Friday Turba and the sour-cherry visciola harvest.
Regions represented: Umbria