For foodies
Towns where somebody vouched for the table
489 towns
Not towns we think you would eat well in. Towns where a guide put its name to a specific place: Michelin, Gambero Rosso, Slow Food, L'Espresso, La Liste, Locali Storici. Follow one to the town and you will find the specific room, with whoever vouched for it named.
Pick a region to see its towns.
Abruzzo
22 towns
Aosta Valley
8 towns
Apulia
30 towns
Basilicata
11 towns
Calabria
12 towns
Campania
35 towns
Emilia-Romagna
22 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
13 towns
Lazio
32 towns
Liguria
33 towns
Lombardy
30 towns
Marche
27 towns
Molise
10 towns
Piedmont
32 towns
Sardinia
11 towns
Sicily
26 towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
20 towns
Tuscany
61 towns
Umbria
28 towns
Veneto
26 towns
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
Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.