Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Lombardy
25 towns
Lombardy carries 25 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They cluster in the Brescia, Mantova, and Bergamo provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Monzambano, Bellano, and Clusone. 22 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cassinetta di Lugagnano
Province: Milano · 120 m
A Naviglio Grande commune west of Milan with fifteen ville di delizia and Italy's first zero-growth urban plan, adopted in 2007.
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.
Limone sul Garda
Province: Brescia · 65 m
The northernmost lemon-growing town in the world, at 46 degrees north on the western shore of Lake Garda, reached by road only in 1932.
Monte Isola
Province: Brescia · 600 m
The largest lake island in southern and central Europe, 4.5 square kilometers in Lake Iseo, with no cars and eleven fishing villages on its shore.
Morimondo
Province: Milano · 109 m
A Cistercian abbey village on the edge of the Ticino park, twenty-five kilometers southwest of Milano, founded by French monks in 1134.
Tremezzina
Province: Como · 209 m
The 2014 merger of four Lake Como villages that holds Villa Carlotta, Isola Comacina and the UNESCO Sacro Monte di Ossuccio.
Bagolino
Province: Brescia · 778 m
A mountain village at 778 meters in the Valle del Caffaro, with a three-day February carnival of masked dancers and violins.
Castellaro Lagusello
Province: Mantova · 138 m
A walled medieval borgo south of Lake Garda, ringed by 13th-century stone walls and overlooking a small heart-shaped natural lake that gives the village its second name and most-photographed silhouette.
Cornello dei Tasso
Province: Bergamo · 691 m
A car-free medieval frazione of Camerata Cornello in the Val Brembana, accessible only on foot, anchored by the Museo dei Tasso e della Storia Postale — birthplace of the family that ran the European postal network from the 16th century onward.
Curtatone
Province: Mantova · 25 m
A commune of eight frazioni west of Mantova, anchored by the Grazie sanctuary and the 1848 battle that delayed Radetzky's advance.
Dervio
Province: Lecco · 220 m
A peninsula on upper Lake Como's eastern shore at the Varrone delta, with a Romanesque bell tower and one of the lake's best sailing winds.
Fortunago
Province: Pavia · 482 m
A 365-resident village on a 482-meter Oltrepò Pavese ridge, with stone façades, porphyry streets and the production zone of Salame di Varzi at its doorstep.
Lovere
Province: Bergamo · 200 m
An amphitheater town at the north end of Lake Iseo, in Borghi più belli since 2003, with Canova plasters inside the Accademia Tadini.
Pomponesco
Province: Mantova · 21 m
A Mantova river village at 21 meters on the Po's left bank, with a late-Cinquecento Gonzaga grid and arcaded central piazza.
San Benedetto Po
Province: Mantova · 19 m
The town that grew up around Polirone, the abbey founded in 1007 by the Canossa family, where Matilda of Canossa was buried for five centuries.
Soncino
Province: Cremona · 88 m
A walled borgo on the Oglio with the Sforza fortress of 1473 and the press that printed the first complete Hebrew Bible in 1488.
Tremosine sul Garda
Province: Brescia · 414 m
A cliff-top commune of 18 frazioni 350 meters above Lake Garda, reached by the Strada della Forra carved through the Brasa gorge.
Varzi
Province: Pavia · 416 m
A medieval Malaspina town at 416 meters in the Staffora valley of the Oltrepò Pavese, the seat of one of Italy's first DOP cured meats.
Zavattarello
Province: Pavia · 525 m
A Val Tidone borgo at 525 meters clinging to a ridge below the Castello Dal Verme, the tenth-century Apennine fortress with walls four meters thick.
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