Islands
Italy's island towns
Italian towns reachable only by ferry — the islands. 18 towns shown, drawn from our ferry-only routing list (Pontine, Tremiti, Ischia, Capri, Aeolian, Egadi, Pelagie, Tuscan archipelago, and the Sardinian small islands).
- 1.AnacapriNapoli · Campania6,835 residents
- 2.CalasettaSud Sardegna · Sardinia2,775 residents
- 3.Capraia IsolaLivorno · Tuscany370 residents
- 4.CapriNapoli · Campania6,804 residents
- 5.CarloforteSud Sardegna · Sardinia5,925 residents
- 6.Casamicciola TermeNapoli · Campania7,614 residents
- 7.FavignanaTrapani · Sicily4,525 residents
- 8.ForioNapoli · Campania17,437 residents
- 9.Isola del GiglioGrosseto · Tuscany1,330 residents
- 10.Isole TremitiFoggia · Apulia479 residents
- 11.La MaddalenaSassari · Sardinia10,592 residents
- 12.Lampedusa e LinosaAgrigento · Sicily6,505 residents
- 13.LipariMessina · Sicily12,565 residents
- 14.PantelleriaTrapani · Sicily7,352 residents
- 15.PonzaLatina · Lazio3,289 residents
- 16.ProcidaNapoli · Campania10,092 residents
- 17.UsticaPalermo · Sicily1,311 residents
- 18.VentoteneLatina · Lazio704 residents
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Pieve di Soligo
Province: Treviso
The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.

Vallefoglia
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A 2014 merger commune at 295 meters in the Foglia valley, born from Colbordolo, birthplace of Raffaello's father, and Sant'Angelo in Lizzola.

Abano Terme
Province: Padova
Europe's oldest thermal town on the Euganean Hills' eastern slope, where 80°C bromo-iodine springs have been drawing bathers since the eighth century BC.

Bosa
Province: Oristano
A colour-washed riverside town on Sardinia's only navigable river, with a Malaspina castle on the hill and the tanneries of Sas Conzas along the Temo.

Castagnole delle Lanze
Province: Asti
An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.
