By geography
Italian coastal towns
179 towns
Towns on the sea. A cliff town high above the water counts here rather than under mountains, because the sea is why you would go.
By region
Pick a region to see its towns.
Abruzzo
9 coastal towns
Basilicata
4 coastal towns
Calabria
17 coastal towns
Campania
26 coastal towns
Emilia-Romagna
4 coastal towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
4 coastal towns
Lazio
9 coastal towns
Liguria
36 coastal towns
Marche
8 coastal towns
Molise
3 coastal towns
Puglia
17 coastal towns
Sardinia
11 coastal towns
Sicily
14 coastal towns
Tuscany
17 coastal towns
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Dogliani
Province: Cuneo
A two-tier Langhe town at 295 meters, the Borgo by the Rea stream and the Castello on the hill, capital of Dolcetto di Dogliani DOCG.
Varazze
Province: Savona
A Ligurian shipbuilding town whose thirteenth-century friar compiled the saint lives that became the most copied book in Europe after the Bible.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno
The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Vernazza
Province: La Spezia
The middle village of the coast, the only one with a natural harbor, buried under four meters of mud in October 2011.
Asolo
Province: Treviso
A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.