All Towns, A–Z
Every town in our atlas — 50 villages and cities across 10 Italian regions. Search or jump to a letter.
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5- AlbaPiedmont
The capital of white truffle, ringed by vineyards.
- AlberobelloPuglia
A UNESCO-listed dreamscape of trulli — conical limestone huts that look stitched into the earth.
- AlgheroSardinia
Catalan Sardinia — yellow stone bastions over a coral sea.
- AlianoBasilicata
Carlo Levi's exile village — pale calanchi badlands.
- AssisiUmbria
St Francis's pink-stone hilltown above an Umbrian plain.
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9- BaroloPiedmont
A castle, a wine and a one-street village that defines a region.
- BellagioLombardy
The 'Pearl of Lake Como' at the fork of the lake.
- Bergamo AltaLombardy
A walled upper city of Venetian bastions above the plain.
- BolognaEmilia-Romagna
Red-bricked, porticoed, food-mad — Europe's oldest university city.
- BolzanoAlto Adige
The bilingual capital — Tyrolean arcades, Italian aperitivi.
- BosaSardinia
Pastel houses descending to a slow river, crowned by a Malaspina castle.
- BraPiedmont
Birthplace of the Slow Food movement.
- BrisighellaEmilia-Romagna
Three rocks, an ochre village, Italy's first DOP olive oil.
- BrunicoAlto Adige
Pusteria valley capital — a base for Plan de Corones skiing.
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5- CagliariSardinia
A capital of bastioned views, Roman ruins and rough-edged glamour.
- CamogliLiguria
Tall, painted fishermen's houses — a calmer alternative to Portofino.
- CastelrottoAlto Adige
A frescoed market square at the gateway to the Sciliar.
- CastelsardoSardinia
A medieval citadel jutting into the Gulf of Asinara.
- CefalùSicily
A fishing town under a Norman cathedral and a brooding rock.
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6- MantovaLombardy
A Renaissance court-city embraced by three lakes.
- MarateaBasilicata
A Tyrrhenian secret — 32 km of dramatic coast crowned by the Christ Redeemer.
- MateraBasilicata
One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities — a cave-carved UNESCO wonder.
- MeranoAlto Adige
An imperial spa town of palms, promenades and thermal baths.
- ModenaEmilia-Romagna
Aged balsamic, opera, Ferrari — and Massimo Bottura.
- ModicaSicily
Stacked baroque town famed for cold-worked Aztec-style chocolate.
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7- OrgosoloSardinia
Mountain village famous for political murals and centenarian shepherds.
- Orta San GiulioPiedmont
A romantic lake town facing a monastery on its own tiny island.
- Ortigia (Syracuse)Sicily
An island within an island — Greek temple bones holding up baroque facades.
- OrtiseiAlto Adige
A car-free Ladin village under the Alpe di Siusi.
- OrvietoUmbria
A tufa-rock plateau crowned by one of Italy's great Gothic cathedrals.
- OstuniPuglia
The 'Città Bianca' — a hilltop labyrinth of lime-washed alleys.
- OtrantoPuglia
Italy's easternmost town — Byzantine mosaics and a sapphire sea.
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4- ParmaEmilia-Romagna
Soft Po-valley elegance — Verdi, parmigiano, prosciutto.
- PietrapertosaBasilicata
An eyrie village hanging from the Lucanian Dolomites.
- Polignano a MarePuglia
A whitewashed cliff town hanging over a turquoise grotto.
- PortofinoLiguria
A pocket-sized harbour beloved by Hollywood since the 1950s.