ANYWHERE ITALY — FACT SHEET Figures as of 2026-08-16. Live page: https://anywhereitaly.com/press FACTS Towns in the catalogue: 1000 Regions covered: 20 Towns visited in person: 59 Pieces written from those visits: 32 Published articles and lists: 725 Verified designations tracked: 34 Recurring festivals verified: 363 Photographs in the library: 6461 Towns site launched: May 2026 Newsletter since: April 2026 Based in: Pietrasanta, Tuscany Model: Free site, free Sunday letter, paid Substack tiers. No advertising. MISSION Italy has nearly eight thousand comuni. Foreign travellers hear about fifty, visit six, and queue there. A few valleys from every famous piazza there is a town where the school closed a generation ago, the young left for the city, and the bar decides each spring whether to turn the lights back on. These are the same problem. The famous places carry more visitors than they can hold, and the small ones empty out for lack of anyone. Nearly all of the money lands on one side of that line. Anywhere Italy is a catalogue of one thousand of the towns that get skipped, each with its own page: population, altitude, how to get there without a car, what it is recognised for, when to go, and what we found when we went. A hundred euros spent in Florence disappears into Florence. The same hundred in a town of four hundred people is visible in the till. We think of it as pointing money at the places that notice it. It is written by Peter Benei and photographed by Sophia, who moved to Italy from Hungary in 2022 and live in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. One town every Sunday, in their own voice, until the count runs out. BOILERPLATE (SHORT) Anywhere Italy is a catalogue of 1,000 small Italian towns most travellers skip, each with its own data-rich page, written by Peter Benei and photographed by Sophia from Pietrasanta, Tuscany. BOILERPLATE (LONG) Anywhere Italy is a catalogue of one thousand small Italian towns that most travellers skip. Every town has its own page: population and altitude from ISTAT, whether it can be reached by train, the designations it holds (Borghi più belli d'Italia, Bandiera Arancione, Bandiera Blu, UNESCO, Cittaslow, national parks and others), when to go, what it is known for, and, for the towns the founders have visited, their own dispatch and photographs. The site publishes computed lists across the catalogue (lake towns near Milan, hill towns you can reach by train, the towns under a hundred people) and a free Sunday letter about one town each week. It is written by Peter Benei and photographed by Sophia, Hungarians who moved to Italy in 2022 and live in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. The project's stated purpose is to move visitors and their money from the six overcrowded places to the towns that notice. FOUNDERS Peter Benei writes Anywhere Italy. Sophia takes the photographs. They moved from Hungary to Italy in 2022 and live in Pietrasanta on the Tuscan coast. Being immigrants, they write about local life and custom as much as views, because that is what they had to learn. They visit one town at a time and write about a place only once one of them has stood in it. CONTACT https://anywhereitaly.com/contact · ciao@anywhereitaly.com Publisher: Anywhere Consulting OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia. USAGE Text on this page, the figures, the boilerplate and the logos may be reproduced in editorial coverage. Please link to anywhereitaly.com. Data in the database is compiled from public sources listed on each town page and on the About the data page; cite the town page when quoting a figure.