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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.
Pick a region to see its towns.
Abruzzo
27 hill towns
Apulia
20 hill towns
Basilicata
13 hill towns
Calabria
17 hill towns
Campania
16 hill towns
Emilia-Romagna
14 hill towns
Lazio
31 hill towns
Liguria
10 hill towns
Lombardy
9 hill towns
Marche
43 hill towns
Molise
10 hill towns
Piedmont
36 hill towns
Sardinia
18 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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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.