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
Arrone
Province: Terni
Medieval castle village on the left bank of the Nera at 243 meters, upstream from the largest man-made waterfall in the world.
Soverato
Province: Catanzaro
On the Gulf of Squillace with the white-sand stretch called the Pearl of the Ionian, the wealthiest town per capita in Calabria.
Villar San Costanzo
Province: Cuneo
A Val Maira village at 605 meters under Monte San Bernardo, with a reserve of 479 mushroom-shaped erosion columns.
Vicenza
Province: Vicenza
Andrea Palladio's home city — a UNESCO-inscribed open-air museum of the architect who reshaped Western architecture, with 23 Palladian buildings inside the centro and the Villa Rotonda + Teatro Olimpico just outside it.
Fagagna
Province: Udine
A 177-meter Friulian hill town northwest of Udine, fortified by Otto II in 983 and racing donkeys in the piazza since 1891.