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Italian hill towns
375 towns
The ridge and hilltop borghi, sitting around 400 metres. Vineyards below, one road up, walkable once you are there. Good in almost any season.
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Abruzzo
27 hill towns
Apulia
20 hill towns
Basilicata
14 hill towns
Calabria
17 hill towns
Campania
16 hill towns
Emilia-Romagna
14 hill towns
Lazio
32 hill towns
Liguria
10 hill towns
Lombardy
9 hill towns
Marche
43 hill towns
Molise
10 hill towns
Piedmont
36 hill towns
Sardinia
16 hill towns
Sicily
19 hill towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
6 hill towns
Tuscany
40 hill towns
Umbria
41 hill towns
Veneto
5 hill towns
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Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Penne
Province: Pescara
The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.
Palazzolo Acreide
Province: Siracusa
An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.
Verucchio
Province: Rimini
A spur over the lower Marecchia valley, cradle of the Villanovan civilization and birthplace of the Malatesta lordship of Romagna.