All Towns, A–Z

The capital of white truffle, ringed by vineyards.

A UNESCO-listed dreamscape of trulli — conical limestone huts that look stitched into the earth.

Catalan Sardinia — yellow stone bastions over a coral sea.

Carlo Levi's exile village — pale calanchi badlands.

St Francis's pink-stone hilltown above an Umbrian plain.

A castle, a wine and a one-street village that defines a region.

The 'Pearl of Lake Como' at the fork of the lake.

A walled upper city of Venetian bastions above the plain.

Red-bricked, porticoed, food-mad — Europe's oldest university city.

The bilingual capital — Tyrolean arcades, Italian aperitivi.

Pastel houses descending to a slow river, crowned by a Malaspina castle.

Birthplace of the Slow Food movement.

Three rocks, an ochre village, Italy's first DOP olive oil.

Pusteria valley capital — a base for Plan de Corones skiing.

A capital of bastioned views, Roman ruins and rough-edged glamour.

Tall, painted fishermen's houses — a calmer alternative to Portofino.

A frescoed market square at the gateway to the Sciliar.

A medieval citadel jutting into the Gulf of Asinara.

A fishing town under a Norman cathedral and a brooding rock.

A salty, vertical port city — focaccia mornings and palazzo afternoons.

The 'Florence of the South' — baroque sandstone glowing gold at dusk.

A Renaissance court-city embraced by three lakes.

A Tyrrhenian secret — 32 km of dramatic coast crowned by the Christ Redeemer.

One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities — a cave-carved UNESCO wonder.

An imperial spa town of palms, promenades and thermal baths.

Aged balsamic, opera, Ferrari — and Massimo Bottura.

Stacked baroque town famed for cold-worked Aztec-style chocolate.

One of Italy's 'Borghi più belli' — sleepy, perfectly preserved.

The Sibillini foothills — Italy's capital of cured pork and black truffle.

A honey-colored baroque stage rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake.

Mountain village famous for political murals and centenarian shepherds.

A romantic lake town facing a monastery on its own tiny island.

An island within an island — Greek temple bones holding up baroque facades.

A car-free Ladin village under the Alpe di Siusi.

A tufa-rock plateau crowned by one of Italy's great Gothic cathedrals.

The 'Città Bianca' — a hilltop labyrinth of lime-washed alleys.

Italy's easternmost town — Byzantine mosaics and a sapphire sea.

Soft Po-valley elegance — Verdi, parmigiano, prosciutto.

An eyrie village hanging from the Lucanian Dolomites.

A whitewashed cliff town hanging over a turquoise grotto.

A pocket-sized harbour beloved by Hollywood since the 1950s.

Byzantium in Italy — eight UNESCO mosaic monuments.

A peninsula on Lake Garda crowned by a Scaligero castle.

Roman gates, geranium-draped lanes — possibly Italy's most floral village.

Roman stones, Romanesque cathedral, and a famous summer festival.

A theatrical balcony town between Etna's smoke and the Ionian Sea.

A pink-and-ochre village at the Gulf of Poets' edge, loved by Lawrence and Montale.

Quieter, slower Como — fishermen's lanes and botanic villas.

Birthplace of Horace, ringed by Roman ruins and a Norman abbey.

The most photogenic of the Cinque Terre, with a tiny natural harbour.