Via Francigena
Via Francigena in Piemonte
3 towns
Piemonte has 3 Via Francigena communes in our index. All sit in the province of Torino.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Avigliana, Susa, and Ivrea.
The towns
Avigliana
Province: Torino · 383 m
A medieval Savoy town at 383 meters at the mouth of the Susa Valley, between two glacial lakes and the abbey on the mountain above.
Susa
Province: Torino · 503 m
The Roman gateway at 503 meters, seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.
Ivrea
Province: Torino · 267 m
Roman Eporedia, Olivetti's twentieth-century industrial city, UNESCO since 2018, where every February three hundred tons of oranges are thrown.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Realmonte
Province: Agrigento
The Agrigento coast commune with the white marl cliff of the Scala dei Turchi and a salt mine carved into 5-million-year-old halite.
Cascia
Province: Perugia
Santa Rita's town at 653 meters in the upper Valnerina, in the seismic corner of Umbria that the 2016 earthquake reopened.
Civitacampomarano
Province: Campobasso
The Molisan ghost-borgo of 298 residents that turned its abandoned centro storico into an open-air street-art village.
Cavalese
Province: Trento
The capital of the valley at 1,000 meters, seat of the Magnifica Comunità and its open-air parliament, the Banco della Reson.
Ferrara
Province: Ferrara
A Renaissance capital planned on a grid rather than grown by accident, small enough to cross by bicycle in twenty minutes, and ringed by walls that still stand whole.