Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Trentino-Alto Adige
11 towns
Trentino-Alto Adige carries 11 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They are in the Trento and Bolzano/Bozen provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Tenno, Sterzing, and Bondone. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Tenno
Province: Trento · 428 m
A hillside commune above Lake Garda where a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake and the northernmost olive groves in Europe sit within reach of each other.
Sterzing
Province: Bolzano · 948 m
A bilingual mining town at 948 meters on the Brenner road, where a 46-meter tower built in 1472 still divides the old town from the new.
Bondone
Province: Trento · 720 m
A two-village commune above Lake Idro at the Lombard border, with a Lodron castle on the cliff between them.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano · 907 m
A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 933 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano · 1,060 m
South Tyrolean village on a shelf below the Sciliar, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
Luserna
Province: Trento · 1,333 m
A Cimbrian island at 1,333 meters on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
Bleggio Superiore
Province: Trento · 628 m
A scattered Giudicarie commune whose hilltop hamlet of Rango holds the Christmas markets, with a Slow Food walnut grown on the terraces below.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento · 380 m
The valley town built on both banks of the Brenta in lower Valsugana, with a hilltop castle above and a contemporary art project in the side valley.
Caldes
Province: Trento · 698 m
A scattered commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Ossana
Province: Trento · 1,003 m
A small borgo at the foot of a 25-meter stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Pieve Tesino
Province: Trento · 843 m
A plateau village in eastern Trentino, birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, shaped by centuries of families who left to trade prints across Europe.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
San Ginesio
Province: Macerata
The Balcony of the Sibillini at 680 meters, where a 1295 pilgrim hospital and the only flowery gothic collegiate church in the Marche stand within the same walls.
Loreto
Province: Ancona
A hilltop pilgrimage town at 127 meters above the Adriatic where, since 1294, the Marian sanctuary has guarded the Holy House of Nazareth.
Celle di San Vito
Province: Foggia
The smallest commune in Puglia, 142 residents at 726 meters, one of two Franco-Provençal-speaking villages in the south.
Sauris
Province: Udine
A 1,212-meter German-speaking island in the Carnic Alps, second-highest commune in Friuli, where Tyrolean settlers founded the village around the thirteenth century.
Sardara
Province: Medio Campidano
A Campidano thermal town where Nuragic well-temples, Roman Aquae Neapolitanae and a hilltop Arborea castle share the same hot springs.