Comuni Virtuosi
Comuni Virtuosi in Tuscany
5 towns
Tuscany has 5 Comuni Virtuosi communes in our index. They are in the Lucca, Firenze, and Prato provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Carmignano, Seravezza, and Stazzema. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Carmignano
Province: Prato · 189 m
A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.
- Written about. No. 70.
Seravezza
Province: Lucca · 100 m
The Versilia town where Michelangelo opened the Pope's marble quarries and Cosimo I built his summer palace.
- Written about. No. 71.
Stazzema
Province: Lucca · 440 m
A mountain commune of seventeen hamlets in the Apuan Alps, site of the August 1944 Sant'Anna massacre and Italy's National Park of Peace.
- Written about. No. 4.
Viareggio
Province: Lucca · 2 m
The Versilia capital, a Carnival city on the Tuscan coast that turned into a Belle Époque resort when the railway arrived.
Fiesole
Province: Firenze · 295 m
An Etruscan hilltop above Florence, still looking down on what later replaced it.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
San Vito Lo Capo
Province: Trapani
A three-kilometer white-sand beach at Sicily's northwest tip, the town that turned cous cous into a September festival.
Taverna
Province: Catanzaro
A hilltown at the foot of a mountain plateau, its stone core arranged around a fifteenth-century Dominican church.
Sauris
Province: Udine
A 1,212-meter German-speaking island in the Carnic Alps, second-highest commune in Friuli, where Tyrolean settlers founded the village around the thirteenth century.
Sepino
Province: Campobasso
A hilltop borgo at 698 meters at the foot of the Matese, two kilometers above the Roman Saepinum, the open-air city the sheep tracks built.
Lugnano in Teverina
Province: Terni
A ridge town at 441 meters above the lower Tiber valley, with a 1230 Romanesque collegiata and a late-Roman infant cemetery on the hill below.