Lake towns
Lake towns in Trentino-Alto Adige
3 towns
Towns on the northern lakes and the quieter volcanic ones further south. Water without the coast road.
The towns
Molveno
Province: Trento · 864 m
The village at the north end of a deep blue alpine lake, with a pale limestone range rising straight out of the water.
Bondone
Province: Trento · 720 m
A two-village commune above Lake Idro at the Lombard border, with a Lodron castle on the cliff between them.
Riva del Garda
Province: Trento · 73 m
The north tip of the lake at 73 meters, where the Trentino mountains close in on the water and a Habsburg port town stayed bilingual into the twentieth century.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Santarcangelo di Romagna
Province: Rimini
A Via Emilia hill town on the Marecchia plain, with over 150 tufa caves under the centro and a Malatesta fortress on its summit.
Usseaux
Province: Torino
A Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.
Civitella del Tronto
Province: Teramo
A rocky crest at 589 meters above the Tronto valley, crowned by the last Bourbon fortress to surrender to united Italy in March 1861.
Montescudaio
Province: Pisa
A fortified hill borgo at 242 meters, named for a mountain of shields, with DOC wine since 1977 and bread, oil and grape all stamped in its identity.
Laino Borgo
Province: Cosenza
A village on the Lao river canyon, at the western entrance to Pollino National Park, known as Calabria's rafting capital.