Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Lazio
23 towns
Lazio carries 23 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. Most cluster in the Roma, Rieti, and Viterbo provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Nemi, Acquapendente, and Ronciglione. 20 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Nemi
Province: Roma · 521 m
The smallest comune in the Castelli Romani, perched at 521 meters above a volcanic crater lake the Romans called the mirror of Diana.
Acquapendente
Province: Viterbo · 420 m
One of the northernmost towns in Lazio, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.
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Ronciglione
Province: Viterbo · 441 m
A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.
Subiaco
Province: Roma · 408 m
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 · 291 m
An Etruscan and Roman town on a tuff spur, with a rock-cut amphitheater carved straight from the volcanic stone of the Cimini.
San Felice Circeo
Province: Latina · 100 m
A medieval borgo on the flank of a promontory that Homer made the home of Circe in the Odyssey.
Sperlonga
Province: Latina · 55 m
A whitewashed cliff town halfway between Rome and Naples, built above the sea grotto where Tiberius staged the Odyssey in marble.
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti · 607 m
A village of 273 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.
Castel Gandolfo
Province: Roma · 426 m
A papal town on the rim of Lake Albano's volcanic crater, summer residence of the popes since 1626.
Castro dei Volsci
Province: Frosinone · 385 m
A Ciociaria hilltop borgo at 385 meters in the Sacco valley, named for the pre-Roman Volsci.
Orvinio
Province: Rieti · 840 m
The highest borgo in the Monti Lucretili park at 840 meters, called Canemorto until 1863.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo · 285 m
A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo.
Atina
Province: Frosinone · 500 m
A polygonal-walled town at the foot of the Mainarde, and the DOC that makes Cabernet in central Italy.
Bassano in Teverina
Province: Viterbo · 304 m
A tufa-spur borgo of 1,273 above the Tiber valley between Lazio and Umbria, with a clock tower that hides an eleventh-century animated bell tower.
Boville Ernica
Province: Frosinone · 450 m
A Ciociaria hilltop town with eighteen intact medieval towers, ringed by a walled circuit that has stood since the tenth century.
Castelnuovo di Porto
Province: Roma · 250 m
A tufa-ridge borgo twenty-five kilometers north of Rome inside the Parco di Veio, dominated by a Renaissance fortress above the Tiber valley.
Collalto Sabino
Province: Rieti · 980 m
A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep.
Percile
Province: Roma · 575 m
A 217-person medieval borgo at 575 meters, built on a rocky spur with two karst lakes hidden in the woods above it.
Pico
Province: Frosinone · 220 m
Tommaso Landolfi's home town, a 2,588-resident Ciociaria borgo at 220m between Rome and Naples, with a BPB-inscribed medieval centro and a castle turned literary museum.
Capranica Prenestina
Province: Roma · 915 m
A 915-meter ridge village east of Rome, with a sanctuary above the Giovenzano valley at 1,018 meters.
Castel San Pietro Romano
Province: Roma · 763 m
A 763-meter hill village above Palestrina, built on the acropolis of ancient Praeneste and inside the Colonna fortress walls.
Greccio
Province: Rieti · 705 m
A 705-meter borgo on a ridge above the Rieti valley, built around the cave of the first living nativity scene.
Magliano Sabina
Province: Rieti · 222 m
A 222-meter Sabine town on a Tiber terrace, cathedral seat of the Sabina diocese on the Lazio-Umbria border.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Galatina
Province: Lecce
The Salento town at 78 meters where the cult of San Paolo bred tarantism and gave the pizzica its origin myth.
Gallipoli
Province: Lecce
The Ionian beach city on a limestone island, Greek Kallipolis meaning beautiful city, tied to the mainland by a seventeenth-century bridge.
Offida
Province: Ascoli Piceno
A hill borgo at 293 meters in the Piceno wine country, with a Romanesque-Gothic cliff church and women still working bobbin lace.
Pizzone
Province: Isernia
A 300-person Mainarde village at 724 meters, above the Volturno springs.
Pianella
Province: Pescara
A Cittaslow hill town at 236 meters between the Tavo and Pescara rivers, anchor of the Aprutino oil triangle and home of the dritta olive.