Mountain towns
Mountain towns in Campania
12 towns
Towns inside a named range: the Alps, the Dolomites, the Apennines, the Pollino, the Aspromonte. All above 500 meters and half above 800, where the season decides the trip.
The towns
Letino
Province: Caserta · 961 m
At 961 meters the highest commune in the province of Caserta, where in April 1877 anarchists declared a Republic of Letino in the village hall.
Nusco
Province: Avellino · 914 m
The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Frigento
Province: Avellino · 911 m
An Irpinia hill village at 911 meters with a Republican-era Roman cistern complex on its summit and four valleys at its feet.
Ariano Irpino
Province: Avellino · 788 m
The City of the Three Hills at 788 meters, where Roger II promulgated the Assizes of 1140 and majolica kilns still fire.
Monteverde
Province: Avellino · 740 m
A 740-meter borgo on the Apulian border of Irpinia, closer to Foggia than to its own provincial capital.
Summonte
Province: Avellino · 738 m
An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of the Partenio massif, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower.
Savignano Irpino
Province: Avellino · 718 m
A 718-meter stone borgo above the Cervaro valley on the Campania-Apulia border, called Savignano di Puglia until 1963.
Padula
Province: Salerno · 699 m
A hill town at 699 meters, holding the Certosa di San Lorenzo and the world's largest cloister.
Gesualdo
Province: Avellino · 676 m
An Irpinia village at 676 meters built around the castle of the prince of Venosa, madrigalist and murderer.
Teggiano
Province: Salerno · 635 m
A ridge town at 635 meters above the valley it once named, held by the Sanseverino for three centuries.
Trentinara
Province: Salerno · 606 m
A Cilento balcony at 606 meters on the Cantenna cliff, called the Terrazza del Cilento, with a 1,500-meter zipline that drops 170 meters toward Paestum.
Morcone
Province: Benevento · 600 m
A Sannite hill town at 600 meters above the Tammaro valley, with 5th-century BC walls and the convent where a future saint took his vows.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Atzara
Province: Nuoro
A Mandrolisai wine village on the western Gennargentu, painted in the early twentieth century by Spanish costumbristas and the Sardinian Scuola di Atzara.
San Vito Lo Capo
Province: Trapani
A three-kilometer white-sand beach at Sicily's northwest tip, the town that turned cous cous into a September festival.
Tarquinia
Province: Viterbo
An Etruscan capital on a Maremma ridge whose 6,000 rock-cut tombs at Monterozzi hold one of the largest bodies of Etruscan painting to survive.
Cetona
Province: Siena
A medieval borgo at 384 meters, sold by Cosimo I to the Vitelli in 1556 and the centro storico still shaped by their fortress reconstruction.
Pescopennataro
Province: Isernia
An Alto Molise stone village at 1,190 meters, the paese della pietra e degli abeti, above a rare high-altitude white-fir forest.