Bandiera Lilla
Bandiera Lilla in Tuscany
3 towns
Tuscany holds 3 Bandiera Lilla sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Grosseto and Pisa provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Castiglione della Pescaia, Peccioli, and Monte Argentario.
The towns
- Written about. No. 48.
Castiglione della Pescaia
Province: Grosseto · 4 m
A Maremma seaside town under an Aragonese castle, with the Vetulonia necropolis behind it and Italo Calvino buried on the hill.
- Written about. No. 69.
Peccioli
Province: Pisa · 144 m
Borgo dei Borghi 2024 in the Valdera hills, a medieval village that funded a public contemporary-art program with revenue from its landfill plant.
- Written about. No. 51.
Monte Argentario
Province: Grosseto · 5 m
A 635-meter peninsula tied to the mainland by three sand spits, ringed by Spanish forts and marked by Caravaggio's death in 1610.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Padova
Province: Padova
The university town that gave Giotto a chapel and the world a science of plants, with two UNESCO inscriptions inside one set of walls.
Acquapendente
Province: Viterbo
One of the northernmost towns in Lazio, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.
Santa Teresa Gallura
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna
The northernmost town in Sardinia, founded in 1808 on a Turin-style grid above the Strait of Bonifacio and 11 kilometers from Corsica.
Vieste
Province: Foggia
The Gargano headland of whitewashed alleys on a white limestone cliff, with the 25-meter Pizzomunno sea stack standing on the beach.
Lipari
Province: Messina
The largest Aeolian island and the only municipality that administers six of the seven, with a clifftop castle citadel rising above two harbors.