Mountain towns
Mountain towns in Campania
12 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.
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.
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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.