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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Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Penne
Province: Pescara
The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.
Palazzolo Acreide
Province: Siracusa
An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.
Verucchio
Province: Rimini
A spur over the lower Marecchia valley, cradle of the Villanovan civilization and birthplace of the Malatesta lordship of Romagna.