By geography
Italian mountain towns
219 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
36 mountain towns
Aosta Valley
12 mountain towns
Apulia
5 mountain towns
Basilicata
13 mountain towns
Calabria
11 mountain towns
Campania
12 mountain towns
Emilia-Romagna
6 mountain towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
4 mountain towns
Lazio
10 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
Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.