Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Tuscany
11 towns
Tuscany holds 11 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Livorno, Lucca, and Pisa provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Massa Marittima, Suvereto, and Campiglia Marittima. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Massa Marittima
Province: Grosseto · 380 m
A medieval mining town at 380 meters, free commune from 1225 to 1337, whose cathedral holds the relics of San Cerbone.
- Written about. No. 40.
Suvereto
Province: Livorno · 127 m
A stone borgo at 127 meters above the Val di Cornia, named for the cork oaks of its forests and first recorded in 973, under a twelfth-century Aldobrandeschi fortress.
- Written about. No. 38.
Campiglia Marittima
Province: Livorno · 231 m
A walled hilltop borgo above the Val di Cornia, where the Rocca tower watches a mining landscape worked from the Etruscans to 1976.
- Written about. No. 16.
Livorno
Province: Livorno · 3 m
Tuscany's working port and Medici-planned 'New City', a 16th-century planned town built on reclaimed coast, with a Venice-like canal quarter, the Quattro Mori monument, and a 1.5-km seafront promenade that locals call the world's most beautiful balcony.
- Written about. No. 39.
Piombino
Province: Livorno · 21 m
A promontory port facing Elba across the channel, founded by refugees from Etruscan Populonia and now the Tuscan archipelago's ferry capital.
- Written about. No. 13.
Pisa
Province: Pisa · 4 m
Maritime republic on the Arno, twelve kilometers from the Ligurian Sea, with the leaning bell tower at the center of a single UNESCO-listed walled compound.
- Written about. No. 15.
San Giuliano Terme
Province: Pisa · 10 m
A thermal spa ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae.
- 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.
- Written about. No. 9.
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
Province: Lucca · 277 m
The Garfagnana capital where the fortified medieval borgo sits at the confluence of the Serchio and the Turrite, where the Tuscan Apennines meet the Alpi Apuane.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Citerna
Province: Perugia
A medieval borgo at 480 meters above the upper Tiber valley, holding the only sculpture by Donatello in Umbria.
Orroli
Province: Cagliari
A Sarcidano village at 550 meters on the Pranemuru basalt plateau, home of the Nuraghe Arrubiu, the only five-tower nuraghe in Sardinia.
Minturno
Province: Latina
A coastal comune at the mouth of the Garigliano, built on the Roman colony of Minturnae.
Castelvecchio Subequo
Province: L'Aquila
At 409 meters in the Subequana valley, the Roman Superaequum and Franciscan station where the saint himself was given land for a convent built between 1221 and 1261.
Venafro
Province: Isernia
A 222-meter town near the Lazio border where an emperor founded a colony and Pliny called the local oil the best in the Empire.