Coastal towns
Coastal towns in Molise
3 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.
The towns
Montenero di Bisaccia
Province: Campobasso · 273 m
A tufa hill town at 273 meters above the northernmost stretch of Molise coast, home base of former magistrate Antonio Di Pietro and his vineyards.
Petacciato
Province: Campobasso · 225 m
A hilltop village at 225 meters on the Adriatic, with a Romanesque church in tuff and sandstone and a long sand beach below.
Termoli
Province: Campobasso · 15 m
Molise's only port, a walled promontory of fishermen's houses on the Adriatic, with the ferry pier for the Tremiti islands.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Mercatello sul Metauro
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A walled borgo at 429 meters in the upper Metauro, autonomous since 1235, with a pieve exempt from any bishop.
Bra
Province: Cuneo
A Roero town at 290 meters where the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
Cogne
Province: Aosta Valley
The mining town turned capital of the Gran Paradiso, the Aosta Valley's largest commune with 95 percent of its land inside Italy's oldest park.
Castiglione della Pescaia
Province: Grosseto
A Maremma seaside town under an Aragonese castle, with the Vetulonia necropolis behind it and Italo Calvino buried on the hill.
Tocco da Casauria
Province: Pescara
A 356-meter hill town between the Pescara river and the Maiella, built around a Carolingian abbey and an herb liqueur called Centerba.