Without a car
Towns you can reach by train
452 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
32 towns
Aosta Valley
3 towns
Apulia
41 towns
Basilicata
11 towns
Calabria
19 towns
Campania
29 towns
Emilia-Romagna
20 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
13 towns
Lazio
29 towns
Liguria
30 towns
Lombardy
24 towns
Marche
20 towns
Molise
10 towns
Piedmont
35 towns
Sardinia
12 towns
Sicily
26 towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
13 towns
Tuscany
46 towns
Umbria
23 towns
Veneto
16 towns
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.