Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Aosta Valley
3 towns
Aosta Valley carries 3 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. All sit in the province of Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Etroubles, Fontainemore, and Bard.
Etroubles
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,280 m
A 478-person Alpine village at 1,280 metres, with an open-air contemporary art museum and the region's first dairy.
Fontainemore
Province: Aosta Valley · 760 m
A 418-person Walser-influenced village at 760 metres in the Lys Valley, marked by its stone bridge and a five-yearly pilgrimage to Oropa.
Bard
Province: Aosta Valley · 400 m
A 108-person village under the largest Savoy fortress in the Alps.
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Capestrano
Province: L'Aquila
A hilltop village at 465 meters above the Tirino valley, where in 1934 a farmer turned up the 6th-century BC limestone Warrior of Capestrano.
Morcone
Province: Benevento
A Sannite hill town at 600 meters above the Tammaro valley, with 5th-century BC walls and the convent where a future saint took his vows.
Fénis
Province: Aosta Valley
The Castello di Fénis, with its double ring of crenellated walls, eight cylindrical towers, and frescoed inner courtyard, sits at the centre of a small Aostan commune east of Aosta, with an Apennine reserve climbing south to 3,000m.
Vinci
Province: Firenze
The hill town on Montalbano where Leonardo was born in 1452, with a ship-shaped castle that now holds his machines.
Mezzojuso
Province: Palermo
An Arbëreshë village of two mother churches, one Latin, one Byzantine, whose Arabic name means the houses of Joseph.