Riserva Naturale
Riserva Naturale in Piemonte
7 towns
Piemonte has 7 Riserva Naturale communes in our index. Most cluster in the Biella, Novara, and Cuneo provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Orta San Giulio, Susa, and Biella. 4 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Orta San Giulio
Province: Novara · 294 m
A promontory facing an islet basilica, with a UNESCO complex of Francis-of-Assisi chapels on the hill above.
Susa
Province: Torino · 503 m
The Roman gateway at 503 meters, seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.
Biella
Province: Biella · 417 m
A wool city at 417 meters in the Alpine foothills, where the medieval Piazzo sits above the modern Piano, connected by a funicular since 1885.
Candelo
Province: Biella · 350 m
A Biellese commune at 350 meters whose Ricetto, a 13th-century fortified shelter of two hundred stone cellule, is the best-preserved in Piedmont.
Gattinara
Province: Vercelli · 265 m
The Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo town on volcanic soil between the Sesia and Monte Rosa, DOCG since 1990, with a tenth-century watchtower above the vines.
Gozzano
Province: Novara · 367 m
The town at the southern tip of Lake Orta, marked by a basilica and a twelfth-century signaling tower above the water.
Villar San Costanzo
Province: Cuneo · 605 m
A Val Maira village at 605 meters, with a reserve of 479 mushroom-shaped erosion columns.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Pisa
Province: Pisa
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.
Arenzano
Province: Genova
A coastal town twenty kilometers west of Genova where two-thirds of the territory climbs into the Parco del Beigua and peaks above a thousand meters.
Monte Argentario
Province: Grosseto
A 635-meter peninsula tied to the mainland by three sand spits, ringed by Spanish forts and marked by Caravaggio's death in 1610.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno
The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Corfinio
Province: L'Aquila
A village of under a thousand on the Peligna valley floor at 346 meters, sitting on the Italic League's would-be capital Italia.