Region
Campania
Campania's 66 towns in our catalogue split across the Salerno, Napoli, and Avellino provinces; 23 carry the Parco Nazionale designation.
66 towns · highest: Letino 961m · smallest: Morigerati 608 people
66 of 66 towns
66 of 66 towns
Agropoli
Province: Salerno
The gateway commune of the Cilento, a Byzantine acropolis on a promontory taken by the Saracens in 882 as a base for raids on Salerno.
Alife
Province: Caserta
A Roman walled town at the foot of the Matese, founded as a 326 BC oppidum, with Italy's fourth-largest amphitheatre still half-buried.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno
The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Anacapri
Province: Napoli
The upper half of Capri, 150 meters above its famous twin, where Axel Munthe built Villa San Michele on a Tiberian ruin.
Ariano Irpino
Province: Avellino
The City of the Three Hills at 788 meters, where Roger II promulgated the Assizes of 1140 and majolica kilns still fire.
Ascea
Province: Salerno
Two villages, a hilltown at 230 meters and a Cilento marina, with Parmenides and Zeno's Eleatic school in the ruins of Greek Velia below.
Atrani
Province: Salerno
The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.
Auletta
Province: Salerno
A Tanagro hill town above the Cilento-Vallo di Diano park, fortified by 1000 AD, scene of an 1861 anti-Piedmont massacre and an 1857 earthquake.
Bacoli
Province: Napoli
A Campi Flegrei town twenty kilometers west of Napoli, the Roman Bauli, where the Piscina Mirabilis fed the imperial fleet at Miseno.
Benevento
Province: Benevento
Sannio capital at the Calore-Sabato confluence, with a 114 AD Trajan arch and a Lombard rotunda on the UNESCO list.
Caiazzo
Province: Caserta
A Cittaslow hill above the Volturno, turned by Franco Pepe's pizza into a destination for 800 covers a day in eighteenth-century rooms.
Calitri
Province: Avellino
An Alta Irpinia ceramic town at 530 meters, half-emptied by the 1980 earthquake and rebuilt around Vinicio Capossela's Sponz Fest.
Camerota
Province: Salerno
A Cilento hill of 422 meters above the Costa degli Infreschi, with prehistoric caves documenting Neanderthal occupation along the southern Tyrrhenian.
Capaccio Paestum
Province: Salerno
Three Doric temples of 550 to 450 BC on the Sele plain, with mozzarella di bufala DOP on the buffalo flats below Monte Calpazio.
Capri
Province: Napoli
The 142-meter Tyrrhenian island town where Tiberius governed Rome for a decade from twelve villas above limestone cliffs.
Casamicciola Terme
Province: Napoli
Ischia's thermal town on the flank of Monte Epomeo, levelled by the 1883 earthquake and again in 2017, rebuilt on the Gurgitello springs.
Caserta
Province: Caserta
Italy's answer to Versailles, built by the Bourbons on the Campanian plain with 1,200 rooms and a three-kilometer water axis.
Castelcivita
Province: Salerno
A small Alburni hill town at 526 meters in the Cilento national park, the surface entrance to a 4,800-meter karst cave inhabited 40,000 years ago.
Castellabate
Province: Salerno
A 1123 abbot's castle on a 280-meter Cilento ridge, with a Bandiera Blu beach below and the Benvenuti al Sud film.
Centola
Province: Salerno
A Cilento hill village at 336 meters whose seaside frazione, Palinuro, carries the helmsman of Aeneas and a Bandiera Blu coastline.
Cerreto Sannita
Province: Benevento
A Sannio ceramics town at 290 meters, rebuilt from scratch by royal engineer Giovanni Battista Manni after the 1688 earthquake leveled the old hill.
Cetara
Province: Salerno
The Amalfi Coast's working tuna and anchovy port, where colatura di alici is still aged in chestnut barrels in the cellars behind the marina.
Conca dei Marini
Province: Salerno
A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, the birthplace of the sfogliatella Santa Rosa and home to the Emerald Grotto.
Cusano Mutri
Province: Benevento
A Sannio hill borgo at 475 meters on the south face of the Matese, the only town in the area spared by the 1688 earthquake.
Ercolano
Province: Napoli
The smaller, denser, more intact Pompeii — Herculaneum was buried under 25m of pyroclastic mud (not ash) on 24 October AD 79, preserving wooden roofs, papyrus scrolls, and second-storey balconies that no other Roman site has, and the modern comune of Ercolano above it adds the Vesuvius National Park gateway and the 18th-c Bourbon Ville Vesuviane along the Miglio d'Oro.
Forio
Province: Napoli
The largest Ischia commune by area, a Tyrrhenian coastal town with the white Soccorso church on a sea promontory and the Walton gardens above.
Frigento
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia hill village at 911 meters with a Republican-era Roman cistern complex on its summit and four valleys at its feet.
Furore
Province: Salerno
The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
Gesualdo
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia village at 676 meters built around the castle where Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa and madrigalist murderer, wrote his six books of madrigals.
Lapio
Province: Avellino
The heart of Fiano di Avellino DOCG country — a 1,428-resident Irpinia borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, with the medieval Castello Filangieri anchoring an intact centro and a rare four-signal combination (Città del Vino + Olio + Miele + Nocciola) recognising the whole local agricultural ecosystem.
Letino
Province: Caserta
At 961 meters the highest commune in the province of Caserta, where in April 1877 anarchists declared a Republic of Letino in the village hall.
Maiori
Province: Salerno
The Amalfi Coast town with the longest beach and a grid street plan, rebuilt after the 1954 flood took the medieval lanes.
Massa Lubrense
Province: Napoli
The Sorrentine Peninsula's largest commune by area, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.
Mercogliano
Province: Avellino
A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above and its Black Madonna.
Minori
Province: Salerno
The smaller of the two Rheginnae, where a first-century Roman maritime villa sits four blocks from the Tyrrhenian beach.
Montesarchio
Province: Benevento
Ancient Caudium at 300 meters in the Valle Caudina, the Roman defeat at the Forche Caudine still attached to the name two thousand years later.
Monteverde
Province: Avellino
A 740-meter borgo on the Apulian border of Irpinia where the Grimaldi of Monaco held the castle from 1532 to 1641.
Morcone
Province: Benevento
A Sannite hill town at 600 meters above the Tammaro valley, with 5th-century BC walls and the convent where Padre Pio took vows.
Morigerati
Province: Salerno
A 608-person Cilento village above the Bussento gorge, the river surfacing from underground caves directly beneath the cliffs.
Nola
Province: Napoli
The Campanian plain town where Augustus died in AD 14 and Giordano Bruno was born in 1548, famous for the June Festa dei Gigli.
Nusco
Province: Avellino
The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Padula
Province: Salerno
A hill town at 699 meters above the Vallo di Diano, holding the Certosa di San Lorenzo and the world's largest cloister.
Perito
Province: Salerno
A Cilento ridge town at 480 meters above the Alento valley, once a center of black-powder production for hunting, defense and brigands.
Piano di Sorrento
Province: Napoli
The quieter Sorrentine plain four kilometers from Sorrento, autonomous since 1808, with prehistoric Gaudo pottery and a black-sand marina at the foot of the cliff.
Pisciotta
Province: Salerno
A Cilento hilltop town of olive terraces above the Tyrrhenian, where fishermen still pull anchovies with the medieval menaica net.
Pompei
Province: Napoli
The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.
Positano
Province: Salerno
The vertical village of the Amalfi Coast, terraced houses climbing four hundred meters from Spiaggia Grande to the Lattari ridge under a tiled Byzantine dome.
Pozzuoli
Province: Napoli
A Roman port on the Campi Flegrei caldera, the Greek Dicearchia and Roman Puteoli, where the Macellum columns first proved bradyseism.
Praiano
Province: Salerno
The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and the Path of the Gods starts.
Procida
Province: Napoli
A four-square-kilometer Flegrean island of pastel fishing houses, the 2022 Italian Capital of Culture, with the fortified village of Terra Murata at 91 meters.
Ravello
Province: Salerno
A ridge town 365 meters above the sea, where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880 and the Ravello Festival has played his music since 1953.
Roscigno
Province: Salerno
A Cilento ghost town at 570 meters, emptied by a 1902 landslide and known as the Pompeii of the twentieth century.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento
A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Savignano Irpino
Province: Avellino
A 718-meter stone borgo above the Cervaro valley on the Campania-Apulia border, called Savignano di Puglia until 1963.
Sessa Aurunca
Province: Caserta
Ancient Suessa Aurunca on the south slope of an extinct volcano, with a Romanesque cathedral of Cosmatesque mosaics built in 1103.
Sorrento
Province: Napoli
The Roman Surrentum on a tuff cliff above the Bay of Napoli, birthplace of Torquato Tasso, sacked by the Turks in 1558.
Summonte
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of Monte Vallatrone, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower over the Partenio.
Taurasi
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia wine village at 400 meters above the Calore valley, the namesake of Taurasi DOCG, the southern Aglianico called Barolo of the South.
Teggiano
Province: Salerno
A ridge town at 635 meters above the Vallo di Diano, the ancient Tegianum that named the valley, held by the Sanseverino for three centuries.
Torre Annunziata
Province: Napoli
Capital of Italian pasta in the interwar period and home of the Roman Villa di Poppea, on the bay at the foot of Vesuvius.
Tramonti
Province: Salerno
The inland side of the Amalfi Coast, thirteen hamlets on the Lattari slopes producing the Costa d'Amalfi Tramonti DOC and an exported pizza dough.
Trentinara
Province: Salerno
A Cilento balcony at 606 meters on the Cantenna cliff, called the Terrazza del Cilento, with a 1,500-meter zipline that drops 170 meters toward Paestum.
Tufo
Province: Avellino
A 250-meter Irpinia hill town that gives its name to Greco di Tufo DOCG, the white wine grown on sulfur-rich limestone slopes around it.
Vico Equense
Province: Napoli
The northern gate of the Sorrento peninsula at 90 meters, the Roman Aequana, where Luigi Dell'Amura invented pizza al metro in 1930.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno
The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Zungoli
Province: Avellino
An Irpinia ridge at 657 meters between the Ufita valley and the Daunian hills, with Norman walls above and Byzantine tuff caves below the houses.
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