Region
Tuscany
Tuscany's 84 towns in our catalogue split across the Siena, Lucca, and Grosseto provinces; 33 carry the Città dell'Olio designation.
84 towns · highest: Abetone Cutigliano 1,388m · smallest: Capraia Isola 370 people
84 of 84 towns
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Abetone Cutigliano
Province: Pistoia
The Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border.
Anghiari
Province: Arezzo
A walled medieval town at 430 meters over the upper Tiber valley, where Florence beat Milan in 1440 and Leonardo started the fresco he never finished.
Arezzo
Province: Arezzo
Tuscany's other set-piece — a 96,000-resident Etruscan-Roman-medieval hilltop city 80 km southeast of Florence, with Piero della Francesca's Leggenda della Vera Croce fresco cycle in San Francesco (1452–66), the sloped Piazza Grande set used by Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful, and the Fiera Antiquaria — Italy's largest monthly antique fair, running since 1968.
Barberino di Mugello
Province: Firenze
The Mugello gateway at 272 meters where the Medici family kept its first country villas, with Michelozzo's Cafaggiolo and the artificial Lago di Bilancino below.
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Barga
Province: Lucca
A medieval hilltop town at 410 meters in the Serchio valley between the Apuan Alps and the Apennines, where Giovanni Pascoli wrote his last poems and the August festival serves fish and chips.
Bibbona
Province: Livorno
An Etruscan-origin hill village above the Costa degli Etruschi, with a Romanesque parish church and a Lorraine-built coastal fort eight kilometers down the road at Marina di Bibbona.
Buonconvento
Province: Siena
The walled brick borgo in the Crete Senesi where Emperor Henry VII died in 1313, on the Via Cassia at the confluence of the Arbia and Ombrone.
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Camaiore
Province: Lucca
The Versilia commune that runs from the Apuan Alps to the sea, a Roman Campus Maior on the Via Francigena with a beach at its western end.
Campiglia Marittima
Province: Livorno
A walled hilltop borgo above the Val di Cornia, where the Rocca tower watches a mining landscape worked from the Etruscans to 1976.
Capalbio
Province: Grosseto
A walled hilltop borgo at 217 meters in the southern Maremma, donated to the Abbey of Tre Fontane by Charlemagne and home of Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden.
Capoliveri
Province: Livorno
A medieval hill town at 167 meters on the eastern lobe of Elba, with 35 kilometers of coast and the iron mines of Monte Calamita below.
Capraia Isola
Province: Livorno
A volcanic island of 370 residents and one village, the third largest of the Tuscan Archipelago, a penal colony from 1873 to 1986 and a national park since.
Carmignano
Province: Prato
A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Pontormo's Visitation hangs in the parish church and Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.
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Carrara
Province: Massa-Carrara
The marble town at the foot of the Apuan Alps, with over 650 quarry sites in the valleys above and the stone that built the Pantheon, the Pietà and Michelangelo's David.
Casale Marittimo
Province: Pisa
A concentric stone borgo at 214 meters above the Val di Cecina, built where a seventh-century BC Etruscan outpost of Volterra once stood.
Castagneto Carducci
Province: Livorno
A hilltop borgo at 194 meters above the Costa degli Etruschi, renamed for the poet Carducci in 1907 and the home of Bolgheri and Sassicaia.
Castellina in Chianti
Province: Siena
A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Province: Siena
A Chianti Classico commune at 351 meters between the Ombrone and the Crete Senesi, the last castle Siena built against Florence, in 1366.
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Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
Province: Lucca
The Garfagnana capital where Ariosto served as Este governor — a fortified medieval borgo at the confluence of the Serchio and the Turrite where the Tuscan Apennines meet the Alpi Apuane, and where the local farro IGP and chestnut flour are the foundation of one of Italy's most distinctive mountain kitchens.
Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina
Province: Pisa
A copper and geothermal borgo at 576 meters in the Cecina valley, where natural steam vents and medieval towers sit on the same hill.
Castiglion Fiorentino
Province: Arezzo
A walled hill town at 342 meters between Arezzo and Cortona, where Etruscan walls support the medieval Cassero and Vasari's loggia frames the Val di Chiana below.
Castiglione d'Orcia
Province: Siena
A stone borgo at 540 meters in the UNESCO Val d'Orcia, first recorded in 714, with two fortresses guarding the road from Amiata to the Via Francigena.
Castiglione della Pescaia
Province: Grosseto
A Maremma seaside town under an Aragonese castle, with the Vetulonia necropolis behind it, the Diaccia Botrona wetland beside it, and Italo Calvino buried on the hill.
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Castiglione di Garfagnana
Province: Lucca
A walled medieval town at 540 meters in the Garfagnana, the Lucca outpost that refused to submit to the Este and held the pass to San Pellegrino.
Cerreto Guidi
Province: Firenze
The Medici hunting villa above the Padule di Fucecchio, where Cosimo I sent his court for the marshland game and Buontalenti built four ramps of stairs.
Certaldo
Province: Firenze
The brick-built upper town in the Valdelsa where Boccaccio spent his last years, twenty-five kilometers from Florence on the medieval road to Siena.
Cetona
Province: Siena
A medieval borgo at 384 meters below Monte Cetona, sold by Cosimo I to the Vitelli in 1556 and the centro storico still shaped by their fortress reconstruction.
Chiusdino
Province: Siena
A medieval village at 564 meters in the Val di Merse where Galgano Guidotti plunged his sword into a rock in 1180 and the roofless Cistercian abbey grew up below.
Chiusi
Province: Siena
The Etruscan city of King Porsenna at 398 meters above the Val di Chiana, with one of Italy's major Etruscan museums and tunnels carved beneath the streets.
Cortona
Province: Arezzo
An Etruscan lucumonia at 494 meters with two kilometers of walls older than Rome, looking down on the Val di Chiana and Lake Trasimeno.
Fiesole
Province: Firenze
An Etruscan hilltop at 295 meters above Florence, founded in the ninth century BC and conquered by Rome in 283 BC, still looking down on what later replaced it.
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Fivizzano
Province: Massa-Carrara
Don't come for Fivizzano-the-town — come for the frazioni: Equi Terme with its thermal grotto-and-cave complex, Verrucola's intact Malaspina fortress, Gassano's mountain panorama, and a 264 km² Lunigiana commune covering 92 hamlets inside the Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano.
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Forte dei Marmi
Province: Lucca
The Versilia luxury beach built around an eighteenth-century marble-loading fort, with 99 bagni concessions and a Wednesday market that draws Milan.
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Fosdinovo
Province: Massa-Carrara
The southern Lunigiana stronghold at 500 meters, the Malaspina castle where Dante took shelter in 1306 and later set a Purgatorio canto.
Greve in Chianti
Province: Firenze
The market town of the Chianti Classico zone on the Greve river, with a triangular piazza arcaded since the sixteenth century.
Grosseto
Province: Grosseto
The Maremma capital on the Ombrone river, ringed by hexagonal Medici walls of 1564 that now serve as the city's public park.
Isola del Giglio
Province: Grosseto
A granite island in the Tyrrhenian Archipelago, walled village on the ridge, port below, where the Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012.
Licciana Nardi
Province: Massa-Carrara
A Lunigiana Malaspina village at 215 meters in the Apennine Tosco-Emiliano park, named in 1933 for the Risorgimento patriot Anacarsi Nardi.
Livorno
Province: Livorno
Tuscany's working port and Medici-planned 'New City' — a 16th-century planned town built on reclaimed coast, with a Venice-like canal quarter, the Quattro Mori monument, and a 1.5-km seafront promenade that locals call the world's most beautiful balcony.
Loro Ciuffenna
Province: Arezzo
A Valdarno village at 330 meters straddling the Ciuffenna torrent, with the oldest working water mill in Tuscany and a Lombard pulpit two kilometers up the road.
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Lucca
Province: Lucca
The provincial capital ringed by four kilometers of intact sixteenth-century walls, birthplace of Puccini and the only fully walled Italian city of its scale.
Lucignano
Province: Arezzo
A walled elliptical hill town at 400 meters between Siena and Arezzo, planned in medieval concentric rings around the goldsmith's reliquary called the Tree of Life.
Manciano
Province: Grosseto
A market town at 444 meters in the southern Maremma, with a Sienese fortress of 1424 and the thermal frazione of Saturnia in its territory.
Massa Marittima
Province: Grosseto
A medieval mining town at 380 meters in the Colline Metallifere, free commune from 1255 to 1337, whose cathedral holds the relics of San Cerbone.
Montaione
Province: Firenze
A medieval glassmaking and truffle borgo at 341 meters above the Valdelsa, with a Franciscan replica of Jerusalem in the woods at San Vivaldo.
Montalcino
Province: Siena
A walled hill town at 564 meters above the Val d'Orcia, the last fortress to hold out for the Sienese Republic and the birthplace of Brunello.
Monte Argentario
Province: Grosseto
A 635-meter peninsula tied to the mainland by three sand spits, ringed by Spanish forts and the place where Caravaggio died in 1610.
Montecarlo
Province: Lucca
A walled hill village at 163 meters above the Lucca plain, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1333 and named for him, surrounded by twenty wineries.
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Montecatini-Terme
Province: Pistoia
Eleven thermal springs in a Liberty-style park at the foot of the Apennines, one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Montepulciano
Province: Siena
A Renaissance hill town at 605 meters on a limestone ridge, where Vino Nobile is aged in vaulted cellars beneath the palazzi of Piazza Grande.
Monteriggioni
Province: Siena
A circular Sienese fortress built between 1213 and 1219 on a natural hill, fourteen towers on a 570-meter wall, intact and unbroken.
Montescudaio
Province: Pisa
A fortified hill borgo at 242 meters above the Val di Cecina, named for a mountain of shields, with DOC wine since 1977 and bread, oil and grape all stamped in its identity.
Montignoso
Province: Massa-Carrara
A Riviera Apuana commune split between the Cinquale coastal frazione, the Castello Aghinolfi on the hill, and the Lago di Porta wetland on the Versilia plain.
Mulazzo
Province: Massa-Carrara
A Malaspina fief in the Lunigiana hills where Dante stayed in 1306, with a frazione of booksellers who walked their wares across Italy.
Murlo
Province: Siena
A medieval bishops' fief twenty kilometers south of Siena, with an Etruscan princely palace on Poggio Civitate and the Cappellone statue as its symbol.
Orbetello
Province: Grosseto
A town on a narrow isthmus at the center of its own lagoon, fortified by Spain in 1557 and tied to Monte Argentario by two tombolos.
Peccioli
Province: Pisa
Borgo dei Borghi 2024 in the Valdera hills, a medieval village that funded a public contemporary-art program with revenue from its landfill plant.
Piancastagnaio
Province: Siena
A chestnut-belt borgo at 772 meters on the southern slope of Monte Amiata, where four contrade still race for the Palio delle Contrade each August.
Pienza
Province: Siena
The first Renaissance ideal city, built from 1459 by Bernardo Rossellino for Pope Pius II on the Val d'Orcia ridge.
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Pietrasanta
Province: Lucca
The marble-processing town under the Apuan Alps, founded in 1255 and worked since by Michelangelo, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Fernando Botero.
Piombino
Province: Livorno
A promontory port facing Elba across the channel, founded by refugees from Etruscan Populonia and now the Tuscan archipelago's ferry capital.
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Pisa
Province: Pisa
Maritime republic on the Arno, twelve kilometers from the Ligurian Sea, with the leaning bell tower at the center of a single UNESCO-listed walled compound.
Pistoia
Province: Pistoia
Italy's nursery capital and the medieval Tuscan rival that gave its name to the pistol — a quietly extraordinary centro storico of zebra-striped Romanesque churches, Andrea della Robbia's polychrome frieze on the Ospedale del Ceppo, and Italy's Capital of Culture 2017, all 30 minutes from Florence by train.
Pitigliano
Province: Grosseto
The Little Jerusalem of southern Tuscany, carved into a tuff spur in the Maremma, where the houses, the synagogue and the streets are all cut from the same volcanic rock.
Pomarance
Province: Pisa
The capital of the Tuscan geothermal field at 369 meters, where industrial steam plumes rise from the same hills that produced two Renaissance painters.
Pontremoli
Province: Massa-Carrara
The capital of Lunigiana at the confluence of the Magra and Verde, holding the prehistoric stele statues and the oldest book prize in Italy.
Poppi
Province: Arezzo
The Casentino borgo at 437 meters whose castle sat above the field where Dante fought the Battle of Campaldino in June 1289.
Radicofani
Province: Siena
The Val d'Orcia's basalt watchtower — a 1,060-resident UNESCO-inscribed borgo at 814m on a volcanic basalt outcrop visible across half of southern Tuscany, with the spectacular Rocca di Radicofani (Ghino di Tacco's outlaw fortress, mentioned by Dante in Purgatorio + Boccaccio in the Decameron), the 16th-c Posta Medicea on the Via Francigena, and Bandiera Arancione + UNESCO + Via Francigena triple signal.
Rapolano Terme
Province: Siena
A Sienese thermal town in the Crete Senesi, 38-degree calcium-sulphur waters and travertine quarries that supplied the Pienza Duomo and Montepulciano's San Biagio.
San Casciano dei Bagni
Province: Siena
A hilltop borgo at 582 meters above 42 hot springs that produced the largest Etruscan bronze hoard of the last fifty years.
San Gimignano
Province: Siena
A walled hill town at 334 meters with 14 surviving medieval towers, UNESCO listed since 1990 and the home of Vernaccia.
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San Giuliano Terme
Province: Pisa
A thermal spa at the foot of Monte Pisano, ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae.
San Miniato
Province: Pisa
The hilltop town between Pisa and Florence that produces a quarter of Tuscany's white truffles and once held the imperial seat of Otto I.
San Quirico d'Orcia
Province: Siena
A walled stop on the Via Francigena at 409 meters in the UNESCO Val d'Orcia, where a twelfth-century Collegiata, a Renaissance garden and the Bagno Vignoni thermal pool sit within fifteen kilometers of each other.
Santa Fiora
Province: Grosseto
An Aldobrandeschi and Sforza mountain borgo on Monte Amiata at 687 meters, holding one of the world's largest collections of Della Robbia terracotta.
Seravezza
Province: Lucca
The Versilia town at the foot of Monte Altissimo where Michelangelo opened the Pope's marble quarries and Cosimo I built his summer palace.
Siena
Province: Siena
The medieval rival of Florence at 322 meters on three hills, with a shell-shaped piazza where seventeen contrade race bareback horses twice a year.
Stazzema
Province: Lucca
A mountain commune of seventeen hamlets in the Apuan Alps, site of the August 1944 Sant'Anna massacre and Italy's National Park of Peace.
Suvereto
Province: Livorno
A stone borgo at 127 meters above the Val di Cornia, named for the cork oaks of its forests and ruled from the Rocca Aldobrandesca since 973.
Trequanda
Province: Siena
A village of 1,166 in three hilltop borghi between Crete Senesi and Val di Chiana, with the terracotta workshops of Petroio holding to a five-hundred-year craft.
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Viareggio
Province: Lucca
The Versilia capital, a Liberty-architecture seafront built around the 1873 Carnival and the 254-kilogram papier-mâché floats that still parade every February.
Vicopisano
Province: Pisa
A medieval river port on the southern slope of Monte Pisano, rebuilt by Brunelleschi in 1434 after Florence took the town from Pisa.
Vinci
Province: Firenze
The hill town on Montalbano where Leonardo was born in 1452, with a ship-shaped castle that now holds his machines.
Volterra
Province: Pisa
The Etruscan acropolis of Velathri at 531 meters, the alabaster town that has been carving the same stone for three thousand years.
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