By geography
Italian coastal towns
196 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.
Pick a region to see its towns.
Abruzzo
10 coastal towns
Apulia
19 coastal towns
Basilicata
4 coastal towns
Calabria
17 coastal towns
Campania
28 coastal towns
Emilia-Romagna
4 coastal towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
5 coastal towns
Lazio
9 coastal towns
Liguria
38 coastal towns
Marche
10 coastal towns
Molise
3 coastal towns
Sardinia
11 coastal towns
Sicily
18 coastal towns
Tuscany
20 coastal towns
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Five more towns to discover
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.