Region
Lazio
Lazio's 61 towns in our catalogue split across the Roma, Viterbo, and Latina provinces; 23 carry the Borghi più belli d'Italia designation.
61 towns · highest: Collalto Sabino 980m · smallest: Percile 219 people
61 of 61 towns
61 of 61 towns
Acquapendente
Province: Viterbo
The northernmost town in Lazio, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.
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.
Nettuno
Province: Roma
A Tyrrhenian town 60 km south of Rome, with a walled medieval borgo above the sea, a Borgia fortress and the 1944 landing beaches.
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.
Rieti
Province: Rieti
The Sabine capital on the Velino, claimed as the center of Italy, under Monte Terminillo and the Franciscan sanctuaries of the Valle Santa.
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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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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.