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10 food designation towns with a station, an easy reach from Milan

Comuni holding a wine, oil or truffle designation, with an active railway station, within two and a half hours of Milan by road. 10 towns shown, nearest first.

Milan's food weekend does not require a car. These comuni hold a wine, oil or truffle designation, keep an active railway station, and sit within a comfortable reach of the city.

Nearest first. The designations mean the product is the town's actual business, not a menu translation, and the train home forgives the second bottle.

  1. 1.Lonato del Garda56 minBrescia · LombardyA hilltop commune on the southwestern Garda morainic ridge, with a Visconti Rocca and the 52,000-volume Casa del Podestà library.
  2. 2.Monte Isola64 minBrescia · LombardyThe largest lake island in southern and central Europe, 4.5 square kilometers in Lake Iseo, with no cars and eleven fishing villages on its shore.
  3. 3.Bardolino79 minVerona · VenetoLake Garda's east-shore wine town at 65 meters, where Corvina and Rondinella grapes have made Bardolino and Chiaretto since the Roman period.
  4. 4.Gattinara104 minVercelli · PiedmontThe Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo town on volcanic soil between the Sesia and Monte Rosa, DOCG since 1990, with a tenth-century watchtower above the vines.
  5. 5.Casale Monferrato105 minAlessandria · PiedmontThe historic capital of the Marchesato del Monferrato at 116 meters on the Po, where the Paleologi castle and the Baroque synagogue still stand.

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  1. 6.Rovereto112 minTrento · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolThe Vallagarina city at 204 metres where a Venetian-Austrian castle holds the Italian war museum and a Mario Botta dome holds Italy's largest contemporary art collection.
  2. 7.Trento120 minTrento · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolThe Alpine capital on the Adige at 194 metres, where the Council that reshaped the Catholic Church met in a castle still standing above the city.
  3. 8.Moncalvo126 minAsti · PiedmontItaly's smallest city by title, 2,730 residents on a Monferrato ridge, with a five-hundred-year truffle tradition and Guglielmo Caccia's home churches.
  4. 9.Ovada127 minAlessandria · PiedmontThe Monferrato town at 186 meters where the Orba meets the Stura, the first Dolcetto DOC zone in Piemonte and now DOCG.
  5. 10.Sondrio136 minSondrio · LombardyThe capital of Valtellina at 307 meters, where Castel Masegra watches over terraced vineyards that produce Sassella and Grumello Nebbiolo.

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