Without a car
Towns you can reach by train
446 towns
Towns where we confirmed an active railway station. Some people cannot drive, some would rather not, and some want the slow way in on purpose. We checked conservatively, so this is what we could confirm, not everything that exists. A town missing here may still have a station we have not mapped.
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Abruzzo
30 towns
Aosta Valley
3 towns
Apulia
41 towns
Basilicata
11 towns
Calabria
19 towns
Campania
28 towns
Emilia-Romagna
20 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
13 towns
Lazio
27 towns
Liguria
28 towns
Lombardy
25 towns
Marche
20 towns
Molise
10 towns
Piedmont
35 towns
Sardinia
13 towns
Sicily
26 towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
13 towns
Tuscany
46 towns
Umbria
22 towns
Veneto
16 towns
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Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.