Designations
Italian recognitions
33 designations across the catalogue
Every town in our catalogue carries at least one institutional recognition. Browse by designation to see all towns recognised under each. Smaller designations (fewer than 5 towns in the catalogue) are listed on their town pages but don't have their own collection page yet.
Tier A
Heritage & UNESCO
The cultural-canon designations — World Heritage and the historic-borghi committees.
Tier B
Outdoor & coast
Coastal, alpine, and protected-landscape recognitions.
Tier C
Product, food & slow
Product registries, slow-tourism networks, and craft traditions.
- Città dell'Olio178
- Città del Vino159
- Riserva Naturale129
- Via Francigena53
- Comuni Virtuosi44
- Città del Tartufo35
- Città della Nocciola27
- Città della Ceramica25
- Città del Pane21
- Città del Miele18
- Città d'Arte14
- Città del Castagno12
- Infioritalia12
- Cammino di San Francesco12
- Greenways11
- Città delle Grotte10
- Cammino di San Benedetto8
- Città dei Liquori5
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Putignano
Province: Bari
Europe's longest-running carnival — Putignano Carnevale has run continuously since 1394, with 631 years of cartapesta papier-mâché floats, a 26,000-resident Murgia town on the Bari–Lecce plateau, and the Grotta del Trullo karst cave inside the centro.
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.
Tropea
Province: Vibo Valentia
Cliff town on a tufa headland over the Tyrrhenian Coast of the Gods, with a Norman monastery on a sea rock.
Caldes
Province: Trento
A scattered Val di Sole commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Cantiano
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A border borgo at 374 meters under Monte Catria on the old Via Flaminia, known for the Good Friday Turba and the sour-cherry visciola harvest.