Region
Lazio
Lazio's 60 towns in our catalogue split across the Viterbo, Roma, and Latina provinces; 24 carry the Borghi più belli d'Italia designation.
60 towns · highest: Collalto Sabino 980m · smallest: Percile 219 people
60 of 60 towns
60 of 60 towns
Acquapendente
Province: Viterbo
The northernmost town in Lazio, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.
Amatrice
Province: Rieti
A 955-meter Apennine town leveled by the 24 August 2016 earthquake, slowly rebuilding the streets that gave amatriciana its name.
Anagni
Province: Frosinone
The hill town in Ciociaria where a September 1303 assault on a reigning pope inside his own palace ended the medieval claim to papal supremacy.
Anguillara Sabazia
Province: Roma
A medieval cape town jutting into Lake Bracciano, twenty-five kilometers from Rome, built above a 5700 BC Neolithic lakeshore village.
Ariccia
Province: Roma
The Castelli Romani town where a single Baroque architect's ensemble sits on a volcanic crater rim above Rome, and Saturday lunch means porchetta.
Arpino
Province: Frosinone
The Volscian-Roman hill town in the Liri valley that produced Marius and Cicero, with a pre-Roman acropolis above the modern center.
Atina
Province: Frosinone
A polygonal-walled town at the foot of the Mainarde, and the DOC that makes Cabernet in central Italy.
Bagnoregio
Province: Viterbo
The Etruscan-founded hill town in Tuscia whose frazione Civita di Bagnoregio sits on an eroding tuff plateau, reachable only by footbridge.
Bassano in Teverina
Province: Viterbo
A tufa-spur borgo of 1,260 above the Tiber valley between Lazio and Umbria, with a clock tower that hides an eleventh-century animated bell tower.
Bassiano
Province: Latina
The highest village in the province of Latina at 562 meters, birthplace of Aldo Manuzio, who shrank the book to pocket size.
Bolsena
Province: Viterbo
A medieval town at 350 meters on the eastern shore of Europe's largest volcanic lake, where a Bohemian priest reported a Eucharistic miracle in 1263.
Bomarzo
Province: Viterbo
The Tuscia village below a garden built by a grieving condottiero for his dead wife, all stone monsters and no apology for it.
Boville Ernica
Province: Frosinone
A Ciociaria hilltop town with eighteen intact medieval towers, ringed by a walled circuit that has stood since the tenth century.
Bracciano
Province: Roma
The Lazio lake town with the eighth-largest lake in Italy below it and one of the best-preserved Renaissance castles in the country above it.
Calcata
Province: Viterbo
A tufa-cliff village forty kilometers north of Rome, condemned and abandoned in the 1930s, then occupied by artists and never left.
Canale Monterano
Province: Roma
A hilltop village next to the burned ghost town of Monterano, where a roofless Baroque church and fountain still stand.
Capodimonte
Province: Viterbo
The lakefront Farnese stronghold on a peninsula jutting into Europe's largest volcanic crater lake, with an extra-virgin olive oil tradition recognized by Città dell'Olio.
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Capranica
Province: Viterbo
A medieval hill town on the old Via Cassia, taken by the Anguillara family in 1305 and remembered as the place Petrarch stayed in 1337.
Capranica Prenestina
Province: Roma
A 915-meter ridge village east of Rome, with a sanctuary above the Giovenzano valley at 1,018 meters.
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Caprarola
Province: Viterbo
A Cimini hill town above Lago di Vico, dominated by the pentagonal Villa Farnese that Vignola built for the Farnese cardinals between 1559 and 1573.
Casperia
Province: Rieti
A Sabina hill village named Aspra in Virgil's Aeneid, called that until 1947, ringed by walls from 1282.
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti
A village of 266 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.
Castel Gandolfo
Province: Roma
A papal town on the rim of Lake Albano's volcanic crater, summer residence of the popes since 1626.
Castel San Pietro Romano
Province: Roma
A 763-meter hill village above Palestrina, built on the acropolis of ancient Praeneste and inside the Colonna fortress walls.
Castelnuovo di Porto
Province: Roma
A tufa-ridge borgo twenty-five kilometers north of Rome inside the Parco di Veio, dominated by a Renaissance fortress above the Tiber valley.
Castro dei Volsci
Province: Frosinone
A Ciociaria hilltop borgo at 385 meters in the Sacco valley, named for the pre-Roman Volsci.
Cerveteri
Province: Roma
An Etruscan capital seven kilometers inland from the Tyrrhenian coast, with the Banditaccia necropolis holding 1,000 tombs in the largest ancient cemetery in the Mediterranean.
Collalto Sabino
Province: Rieti
A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep.
Fiuggi
Province: Frosinone
The Ernici-mountain thermal town where Boniface VIII and Michelangelo both came to dissolve kidney stones with the oligomineral spring water.
Fondi
Province: Latina
The plain town between the Ausoni and Aurunci mountains where the Caetani built a castle in the middle of farmland instead of on a hill.
Gaeta
Province: Latina
The promontory port where a Bourbon kingdom fell in February 1861 and the south of Italy stopped existing as a state.
Greccio
Province: Rieti
A 705-meter borgo on a ridge above the Rieti valley, built around the cave of the first living nativity scene.
Isola del Liri
Province: Frosinone
The Ciociaria town with a 27-meter waterfall in its centro storico and a paper-mill past once called the Manchester of Italy.
Labro
Province: Rieti
A 355-person stone borgo at 628 meters, restored since the 1960s by a Belgian architect and his descendants.
Magliano Sabina
Province: Rieti
A 222-meter Sabine town on a Tiber terrace, cathedral seat of the Sabina diocese on the Lazio-Umbria border.
Minturno
Province: Latina
A coastal comune at the mouth of the Garigliano, built on the Roman colony of Minturnae.
Montefiascone
Province: Viterbo
A 590-meter hill town on the highest hill of the Volsini, source of Est! Est!! Est!!!.
Nemi
Province: Roma
The smallest comune in the Castelli Romani, perched at 521 meters above a volcanic crater lake the Romans called the mirror of Diana.
Oriolo Romano
Province: Viterbo
A planned sixteenth-century village in the Sabatini hills, laid out in 1560 by a Santacroce nobleman on land cleared from an ancient beech wood.
Orvinio
Province: Rieti
The highest borgo in the Monti Lucretili park at 840 meters, called Canemorto until 1863.
Percile
Province: Roma
A 219-person medieval borgo at 575 meters, built on a rocky spur with two karst lakes hidden in the woods above it.
Picinisco
Province: Frosinone
A medieval village at 725 meters on the eastern edge of Lazio, the source of much of Italo-Scottish emigration.
Pico
Province: Frosinone
Tommaso Landolfi's home town, a 2,634-resident Ciociaria borgo at 220m between Rome and Naples, with a BPB-inscribed medieval centro and a castle turned literary museum.
Ponza
Province: Latina
The main island of the Pontine archipelago, a volcanic crescent 40 km off Formia with white tuff cliffs, Roman fishpond tunnels at Pilato, Cala Feola's natural pools, and a 3,200-resident borgo curving around a horseshoe harbour painted in 18th-century Bourbon-pastel.
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Ronciglione
Province: Viterbo
A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.
Sabaudia
Province: Latina
A rationalist city built in 253 days on drained Pontine marshland, founded 15 April 1934 between Lago di Paola and the Tyrrhenian dunes.
San Donato Val di Comino
Province: Frosinone
A medieval village at 728 meters at the gateway to Forca d'Acero, the pass into the Abruzzo National Park.
San Felice Circeo
Province: Latina
A medieval borgo on the flank of a promontory that Homer made the home of Circe in the Odyssey.
Sermoneta
Province: Latina
A walled medieval town on a Lepini spur above the Pontine Plain, seat of the Caetani since a 1297 purchase and still ruled from a 42-meter tower.
Sperlonga
Province: Latina
A whitewashed cliff town halfway between Rome and Naples, built above the sea grotto where Tiberius staged the Odyssey in marble.
Subiaco
Province: Roma
The Aniene valley town where Benedict spent three years in a cliff cave, and where Italy's first printed book appeared in 1465.
Sutri
Province: Viterbo
An Etruscan and Roman town on a tuff spur, with a rock-cut amphitheater carved straight from the volcanic stone of the Cimini.
Tarquinia
Province: Viterbo
An Etruscan capital on a Maremma ridge whose 6,000 rock-cut tombs at Monterozzi hold the largest body of pre-Roman painting in the Mediterranean.
Terracina
Province: Latina
The Volscian Anxur, where a temple to Jupiter sits above a port cut through stone.
Tivoli
Province: Roma
A travertine town on the Aniene falls twenty-five kilometers east of Rome, holding two separate UNESCO sites: Hadrian's villa below and the Villa d'Este above.
Trevignano Romano
Province: Roma
A volcanic-crater lake town on the northern shore of Bracciano, thirty-five kilometers from Rome, with a medieval rocca above the water.
Velletri
Province: Roma
The Castelli Romani town where Augustus grew up, now the largest wine commune of its hills.
Ventotene
Province: Latina
The smaller of the inhabited Pontine Islands, a flat three-kilometer tuff platform southeast of Ponza.
Viterbo
Province: Viterbo
The medieval capital of the Tuscia, papal seat for five popes between 1257 and 1281 and home to the longest conclave in Church history.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo
A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo.
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Fonni
Province: Nuoro
The highest village in Sardinia at 1,000 meters on the Gennargentu, with ski lifts climbing above the town and the Madonna dei Martiri sanctuary at its edge.
Lerici
Province: La Spezia
A fishing harbour under a Pisan-Genoese castle, with the frazione of Tellaro hanging over the rocks at the commune's southern edge.
Posada
Province: Nuoro
The capital of the Baronia, a 3,000-person village on a 71-meter rock with a 13th-century tower over the valley.
Sadali
Province: Sud Sardegna
A Barbagia di Seulo borgo at 750 meters with the only waterfall in Sardegna that drops through the inhabited centre.
Cassano delle Murge
Province: Bari
A Murge foothills town at 341 meters at the gate of the Alta Murgia park, with the 1,300-hectare Foresta Mercadante mostly inside its territory.