Città del Tartufo
Città del Tartufo in Tuscany
4 towns
Tuscany has 4 Città del Tartufo communes in our index. They are in the Pisa, Firenze, and Siena provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Montalcino, Montaione, and San Miniato. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
The towns
- Written about. No. 42.
Montalcino
Province: Siena · 564 m
A walled hill town at 564 meters above the Val d'Orcia, the last fortress to hold out for the Sienese Republic and the birthplace of Brunello.
Montaione
Province: Firenze · 341 m
A medieval glassmaking and truffle borgo at 341 meters above the Valdelsa, with a Franciscan replica of Jerusalem in the woods nearby.
- Written about. No. 23.
San Miniato
Province: Pisa · 150 m
The hilltop town between Pisa and Florence that produces a quarter of Tuscany's white truffles and once held the imperial seat of Otto I.
- Written about. No. 34.
Volterra
Province: Pisa · 531 m
The Etruscan acropolis of Velathri at 531 meters, the alabaster town that has been carving the same stone for three thousand years.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Boville Ernica
Province: Frosinone
A Ciociaria hilltop town with eighteen intact medieval towers, ringed by a walled circuit that has stood since the tenth century.
Collalto Sabino
Province: Rieti
A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
Subiaco
Province: Roma
The Aniene valley town where Benedict spent three years in a cliff cave, and where Italy's first printed book appeared in 1465.
Ornavasso
Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
A Toce-valley town at 215 meters, marble quarry for a famous Milan cathedral and the southernmost Walser colony in the Ossola.