Designation
Cammino di San Benedetto
9 towns across 2 regions
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Lazio6
Arpino
Province: Frosinone 路 450 m
The Volscian-Roman hill town in the Liri valley that produced Marius and Cicero, with a pre-Roman acropolis above the modern center.
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti 路 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.
Isola del Liri
Province: Frosinone 路 217 m
The Ciociaria town with a 27-meter waterfall in its centro storico and a paper-mill past once called the Manchester of Italy.
Orvinio
Province: Rieti 路 840 m
The highest borgo in the Monti Lucretili park at 840 meters, called Canemorto until 1863.
Rieti
Province: Rieti 路 405 m
The Sabine capital on the Velino, claimed as the center of Italy, under Monte Terminillo and the Franciscan sanctuaries of the Valle Santa.
Subiaco
Province: Roma 路 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.
Umbria3
Cascia
Province: Perugia 路 653 m
Santa Rita's town at 653 meters in the upper Valnerina, in the seismic corner of Umbria that the 2016 earthquake reopened.
Monteleone di Spoleto
Province: Perugia 路 978 m
A 539-resident hilltop borgo at 978m in the upper Nera valley, ranked among the Borghi pi霉 belli d'Italia, with a medieval castle for a skyline and a pilgrim route running through it.
Norcia
Province: Perugia 路 604 m
Birthplace of San Benedetto at 604 meters on a Sibillini plateau, leveled by the 2016 earthquake and rebuilt stone by stone.
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Five more towns
Pizzo
Province: Vibo Valentia
A tuff-cliff town over the Gulf of Sant'Eufemia, where a king was shot in 1815 and the tartufo gelato was invented a century later.
Ossana
Province: Trento
A small borgo at the foot of a 25-meter stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Paciano
Province: Perugia
Walled hill town of 937 people at 391 meters above the lake, three parallel streets, eight towers and three medieval gates intact.
Caramanico Terme
Province: Pescara
A 650-meter Majella spa village at the confluence of the Orfento and Orta rivers.
Castiglione di Sicilia
Province: Catania
A hill town on the north flank of Etna at 621 meters, base camp for the Alcantara valley and the volcano's most serious red wines.