Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Lombardia
3 towns
Lombardia holds 3 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Sondrio and Brescia provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Bormio, Livigno, and Ponte di Legno.
The towns
Bormio
Province: Sondrio · 1,225 m
An Alpine spa town at 1,225 meters where three high passes meet and Roman thermal water has fed the baths for two thousand years.
Livigno
Province: Sondrio · 1,816 m
At 1,816 meters in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border, a duty-free ski valley that drains north into the Black Sea, not the Mediterranean.
Ponte di Legno
Province: Brescia · 1,257 m
The uppermost commune in the province, 1,257 meters up, where two streams meet under the Adamello range to form a river.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Catania
Province: Catania
Sicily's second city and the cultural anchor of the Ionian coast, a UNESCO late-Baroque centro storico rebuilt in lava-black stone after the 1693 earthquake, sitting at the foot of Etna with a 17th-century elephant fountain (U Liotru) as its civic symbol.
Sulmona
Province: L'Aquila
At 405 meters in the Valle Peligna, birthplace of Ovid in 43 BC and home of the sugared-almond confetti craft since the 15th century.
Luserna
Province: Trento
A Cimbrian island at 1,333 meters on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano
A Ladin wood-carving town at 1,236 meters, set between two high plateaus.
Santa Teresa Gallura
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna
The northernmost town in Sardinia, founded in 1808 on a Turin-style grid above the Strait of Bonifacio and 11 kilometers from Corsica.