By geography
Italian mountain towns
223 towns
Towns inside a named range: the Alps, the Dolomites, the Apennines, the Pollino, the Aspromonte. Around 800 metres and up, where the season decides the trip.
Pick a region to see its towns.
Abruzzo
38 mountain towns
Aosta Valley
12 mountain towns
Apulia
5 mountain towns
Basilicata
14 mountain towns
Calabria
11 mountain towns
Campania
12 mountain towns
Emilia-Romagna
6 mountain towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
4 mountain towns
Lazio
11 mountain towns
Lombardy
16 mountain towns
Marche
6 mountain towns
Molise
14 mountain towns
Piedmont
10 mountain towns
Sardinia
6 mountain towns
Sicily
17 mountain towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
23 mountain towns
Tuscany
7 mountain towns
Umbria
4 mountain towns
Veneto
7 mountain towns
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Five more towns to discover

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.
