Mountain towns
Mountain towns in Trentino-South Tyrol
23 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.
Corvara in Badia
Province: Bolzano · 1,568 m
The Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
Canazei
Province: Trento · 1,465 m
A Ladin village at 1,465 metres at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
Luserna
Province: Trento · 1,333 m
A Cimbrian island at 1,333 metres on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
Toblach
Province: Bolzano · 1,256 m
The Val Pusteria gateway where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano · 1,236 m
A Ladin wood-carving town at 1,236 metres, set between two high plateaus.
Moena
Province: Trento · 1,184 m
The largest village in the valley, Ladin-speaking, dressed in Ottoman costume for three days every August.
Innichen
Province: Bolzano · 1,175 m
An Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 metres on the Austrian border, built around a Romanesque church and facing the Dolomites to the south.
Lavarone
Province: Trento · 1,172 m
A Cimbrian plateau at 1,172 metres above the Val d'Astico, with a karst lake and a wooded fort line.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano · 1,060 m
South Tyrolean village on a shelf below the Sciliar, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
Andalo
Province: Trento · 1,042 m
An alpine pass at 1,042 metres on the Paganella plateau, with a mountain range on one side and a periodic lake that empties and refills.
Ossana
Province: Trento · 1,003 m
A small borgo at the foot of a 25-metre stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Cavalese
Province: Trento · 1,000 m
The capital of the valley at 1,000 metres, seat of the Magnifica Comunità and its open-air parliament, the Banco della Reson.
Baselga di Pinè
Province: Trento · 964 m
The main town of the Piné plateau at 964 metres, with a Blue Flag lake, Italy's outdoor speed skating oval and a baroque Marian sanctuary.
Sterzing
Province: Bolzano · 948 m
A bilingual mining town at 948 metres on the Brenner road, where a 46-metre tower built in 1472 still divides the old town from the new.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano · 907 m
A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 937 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
Pieve Tesino
Province: Trento · 843 m
A plateau village in eastern Trentino, birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, shaped by centuries of families who left to trade prints across Europe.
Brunico
Province: Bolzano · 838 m
The largest town of the Pustertal at 838 metres, built around the prince-bishop's castle and the Stadtgasse, with Plan de Corones rising above the valley.
Pinzolo
Province: Trento · 770 m
The Val Rendena base town at 770 metres, set between the Adamello-Presanella massif and the Dolomites to the east.
Fortezza
Province: Bolzano · 750 m
A small South-Tyrolean village in the Isarco valley, at the point where the Pusteria line branches off the main Brenner railway corridor.
San Pancrazio
Province: Bolzano · 736 m
A South-Tyrolean village at 736 metres on the entrance of the Ultental/Val d'Ultimo, German-speaking St. Pankraz, the gateway to one of the most isolated alpine valleys in the Adige basin and the centuries-old larch forests of the Lahnerlärchen.
Caldes
Province: Trento · 698 m
A scattered commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Brentonico
Province: Trento · 692 m
The Monte Baldo plateau town between Lake Garda and the Vallagarina, with chestnut groves, war trenches and a botanical garden.
Bleggio Superiore
Province: Trento · 628 m
A scattered Giudicarie commune whose hilltop hamlet of Rango holds the Christmas markets, with a Slow Food walnut grown on the terraces below.
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Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Penne
Province: Pescara
The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.
Palazzolo Acreide
Province: Siracusa
An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.
Verucchio
Province: Rimini
A spur over the lower Marecchia valley, cradle of the Villanovan civilization and birthplace of the Malatesta lordship of Romagna.