Italy has nearly 8,000 towns. You've heard maybe 50 of them.
Anywhere Italy shows you the 1,000 Italian towns that travelers skip.
Each town is handpicked and written by an expat who lives in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. Pick a region on the map to start exploring.
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A handful from the 1,000
Five towns to begin with
Siracusa
Province: Siracusa
The 2,700-year-old Greek city Cicero called the most beautiful in the world — Ortigia island at its heart wrapped in honey-coloured Baroque stone, the 5th-century BC Greek theatre still in use every summer, and Catania's bigger UNESCO sister on the eastern Sicilian coast.
Cividale del Friuli
Province: Udine
The Lombard capital on the Natisone, founded as Forum Iulii by Julius Caesar, where an eighth-century chapel still holds six stucco saints.
Porto Ceresio
Province: Varese
The Italian port at the southern end of Lake Lugano, where the Swiss border runs through the water below Monte San Giorgio.
Bolsena
Province: Viterbo
A medieval town at 350 meters on the eastern shore of Europe's largest volcanic lake, where a Bohemian priest reported a Eucharistic miracle in 1263.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo
A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo, and the only place outside Easter Island with a true Moai.