Bandiera Arancione

Bandiera Arancione in Lombardy

15 towns

Lombardy carries 15 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. They cluster in the Bergamo, Brescia, and Mantova provinces.

The three most recognised in our catalogue are Monzambano, Gardone Riviera, and Gromo. 12 more towns carry the mark alongside them.

Monzambano
Province: Mantova · 88 m
A Mincio commune at 88 meters in the moraine hills west of Mantova, whose frazione Castellaro Lagusello sits on a heart-shaped lake inside fortified walls.
Gardone Riviera
Province: Brescia · 71 m
A western Garda lakeshore town whose hillside holds the Vittoriale, the estate Gabriele D'Annunzio turned into a monument to himself.
Gromo
Province: Bergamo · 676 m
A medieval iron-forging town at 676 meters on a rock spur above the Serio, once called the little Toledo for its sword smiths.
Bellano
Province: Lecco · 202 m
An eastern Lake Como town where the Pioverna cut a gorge through fifteen million years of rock before reaching the lake.
Bienno
Province: Brescia · 445 m
A medieval ironworking village in the Val Camonica, where water hammers driven by the Grigna stream have shaped wrought iron since the 1200s.
Castione della Presolana
Province: Bergamo · 870 m
A high-valley commune at 870 meters under the Pizzo della Presolana, the limestone peak the Bergamasque call the Queen of the Orobie.
Clusone
Province: Bergamo · 648 m
At 648 meters in upper Val Seriana, capital of the macabre fresco and the 1583 planetary clock above its civic tower.
Sabbioneta
Province: Mantova · 25 m
A Renaissance ideal city on the Po, built in thirty years by Vespasiano I Gonzaga and laid out as a six-pointed star.
Tignale
Province: Brescia · 560 m
A six-hamlet commune on a high terrace above Lake Garda's western shore, anchored by a clifftop sanctuary and the last working limonaie north of Salò.
Chiavenna
Province: Sondrio · 333 m
An Alpine town at 333 meters on the Mera river, the historical Splügen Pass crossroads named for its key position and its rock-cellar crotti.
Sarnico
Province: Bergamo · 197 m
A medieval lake town at the southern tip of Lago d'Iseo, where the Oglio leaves the lake and Liberty villas line the shore.
Menaggio
Province: Como · 203 m
On the western shore of Lake Como at the mouth of the Senagra, the lake's old Roman crossing point between Como, Bellagio and the Valtellina.
Pizzighettone
Province: Cremona · 46 m
A walled town on the Adda below Cremona, where Francis I of France was held for fifty days in the Torre del Guado after Pavia.
Solferino
Province: Mantova · 124 m
The morainic hill where 300,000 soldiers met on 24 June 1859, the battle whose wounded gave Henry Dunant the idea of the Red Cross.
Torno
Province: Como · 225 m
A medieval village on the eastern shore of Lake Como, home to Villa Pliniana and its rhythmic spring described by Pliny the Younger.

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