For foodies
Towns where somebody vouched for the table
484 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
21 towns
Aosta Valley
8 towns
Apulia
30 towns
Basilicata
11 towns
Calabria
12 towns
Campania
34 towns
Emilia-Romagna
22 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
13 towns
Lazio
30 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
27 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
Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.