Cittaslow
Cittaslow in Puglia
3 towns
Puglia holds 3 Cittaslow sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani, and Brindisi provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Gravina in Puglia, Cisternino, and Trani.
The towns
Gravina in Puglia
Province: Bari · 350 m
A Bari-province town of 42,700 built on the lip of a 100m-deep limestone canyon, its cliffs threaded with rupestrian cave churches.
Cisternino
Province: Brindisi · 394 m
An Itria valley borgo on the southern Murgia at 394 meters, whitewashed and looking down over drystone walls and trulli.
Trani
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 7 m
The Adriatic port whose pink-white Romanesque cathedral stands on the water, built for a Greek pilgrim who died here in 1094.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Cerchiara di Calabria
Province: Cosenza
A village at 650 meters below a mountain rock sanctuary, with a sulphurous cave feeding the thermal springs beneath it.
Serralunga di Crea
Province: Alessandria
A commune of 506 holding the Sacro Monte di Crea, a UNESCO Sacri Monti site of 23 chapels around a Marian sanctuary.
La Thuile
Province: Aosta Valley
Italy's gateway to the Petit Saint-Bernard pass: a 1,441m alpine village under Mont Blanc, with the Rutor glacier and its tiered waterfalls behind it and a Roman-Salassi history that goes back two millennia.
San Ginesio
Province: Macerata
The Balcony of the Sibillini at 680 meters, where a 1295 pilgrim hospital and the only flowery gothic collegiate church in the Marche stand within the same walls.
Sant'Agata Feltria
Province: Rimini
A 607-meter Montefeltro borgo crowned by a fortress on a sandstone outcrop, host of the national white truffle fair since 1985.