Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Campania
14 towns
Campania carries 14 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They cluster in the Avellino, Salerno, and Benevento provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Furore, Montesarchio, and Vietri sul Mare. 11 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Furore
Province: Salerno · 300 m
The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
Montesarchio
Province: Benevento · 300 m
Ancient Caudium at 300 meters, a Roman defeat still attached to the name two thousand years later.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno · 80 m
The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Zungoli
Province: Avellino · 657 m
An Irpinia ridge between the Ufita valley and the Daunian hills, with walls above and tuff caves below the houses.
Atrani
Province: Salerno · 21 m
The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.
Castellabate
Province: Salerno · 280 m
A hilltown on a 280-meter Cilento ridge, with a Bandiera Blu beach below and the Benvenuti al Sud film.
Conca dei Marini
Province: Salerno · 138 m
A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, home to a monastery pastry and a sea cave that glows green.
Cusano Mutri
Province: Benevento · 475 m
A Sannio hill borgo at 475 meters on the south face of the Matese, the only town in the area spared by the 1688 earthquake.
Summonte
Province: Avellino · 738 m
An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of the Partenio massif, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower.
Nusco
Province: Avellino · 914 m
The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Frigento
Province: Avellino · 911 m
An Irpinia hill village at 911 meters with a Republican-era Roman cistern complex on its summit and four valleys at its feet.
Gesualdo
Province: Avellino · 676 m
An Irpinia village at 676 meters built around the castle of the prince of Venosa, madrigalist and murderer.
Monteverde
Province: Avellino · 740 m
A 740-meter borgo on the Apulian border of Irpinia, closer to Foggia than to its own provincial capital.
Savignano Irpino
Province: Avellino · 718 m
A 718-meter stone borgo above the Cervaro valley on the Campania-Apulia border, called Savignano di Puglia until 1963.
From elsewhere in Italy
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Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.