Città dell'Olio
Città dell'Olio in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
3 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia has 3 Città dell'Olio communes in our index. All sit in the province of Trieste.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are San Dorligo della Valle-Dolina, Muggia, and Trieste.
The towns
San Dorligo della Valle-Dolina
Province: Trieste · 84 m
A Slovene-speaking Karst commune ten kilometers from Trieste, with its own valley, its own wine, and a canyon Roman aqueducts once crossed.
Muggia
Province: Trieste · 13 m
The only town on the Istrian peninsula still inside Italy, a small Venetian port on the Gulf of Trieste five kilometers from the Slovenian border.
Trieste
Province: Trieste · 2 m
The Adriatic port the Habsburgs built as their window on the sea, an Italian regional capital still arguing in four languages on the Slovenian border.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Amalfi
Province: Salerno
The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Bracciano
Province: Roma
The Lazio lake town with the eighth-largest lake in Italy below it and one of the best-preserved Renaissance castles in the country above it.
San Benedetto Ullano
Province: Cosenza
An Arbëreshë village at 460 meters in the hills west of Cosenza, where the Byzantine rite is still sung.
Carmignano
Province: Prato
A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.
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.