By geography
Italian mountain towns
220 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
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
Arquà Petrarca
Province: Padova
The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.
Samugheo
Province: Oristano
Sardinia's textile-weaving capital: a 2,757-resident Mandrolisai borgo where the MURATS regional textile museum, the Tessingiu woven-art biennale, and an active community of weavers on traditional looms keep a knot-stitch tradition alive.
Salò
Province: Brescia
On the deepest gulf of the lake, with the longest waterfront promenade and the cathedral of the Riviera di Salò.
Matelica
Province: Macerata
A Verdicchio town at 354 meters in the upper Esino valley, with a Roman marble globe in its archaeological museum.
Montecarlo
Province: Lucca
A walled hill village at 163 meters above the Lucca plain, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1333 and named for him, surrounded by twenty wineries.