🏆Borgo dei Borghi

Villalago

Province: L'Aquila · 930 m

A 930-meter village above three lakes, named for the nine that once filled the valley, with a hermit's cave on the water's edge.

San Fele

Province: Potenza · 872 m

A stone village at 872 meters between Monte Toretta and Castello, anchored by Otto I's 969 fortress and ten waterfalls down the Bradano.

San Nicola Arcella

Province: Cosenza · 110 m

A cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where the Arco Magno sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.

Tropea

Province: Vibo Valentia · 50 m

Cliff town on a tufa headland over the Tyrrhenian Coast of the Gods, with a Norman monastery on a sea rock.

Zungoli

Province: Avellino · 657 m

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.

Bobbio

Province: Piacenza · 272 m

A 272-meter Trebbia-valley town built around the abbey Saint Columbanus founded in 614, named Borgo dei Borghi by RAI in 2019.

Canossa

Province: Reggio nell'Emilia · 219 m

The Reggiano commune holding the ruined castle where Henry IV stood three days in the snow before Pope Gregory VII in 1077.

Spilimbergo

Province: Pordenone · 132 m

A 132-meter Friulian town on the Tagliamento, home since 1922 to the Scuola Mosaicisti, whose alumni made the Library of Congress mosaics.

Venzone

Province: Udine · 230 m

A 230-meter walled medieval town in the Tagliamento valley, leveled by the 1976 earthquake and rebuilt stone by stone, winner of Borgo dei Borghi 2017.

Nemi

Province: Roma · 521 m

The smallest comune in the Castelli Romani, perched at 521 meters above a volcanic crater lake the Romans called the mirror of Diana.

Ronciglione

Province: Viterbo · 441 m

A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico at 441 meters, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.

Arenzano

Province: Genova · 12 m

A coastal town twenty kilometers west of Genova where two-thirds of the territory climbs into the Parco del Beigua and peaks above a thousand meters.

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.

Cingoli

Province: Macerata · 631 m

The Balcone delle Marche at 631 meters, a hilltop borgo where on clear days the view runs from the Sibillini to the Croatian coast.

Gradara

Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 142 m

The walled hill borgo at 142 meters above the Adriatic where Dante set the deaths of Paolo and Francesca, with one of Italy's best-preserved castles.

Guardialfiera

Province: Campobasso · 285 m

A hilltop village at 285 meters above the largest artificial lake in Molise, the home ground of the writer Francesco Jovine.

Villar San Costanzo

Province: Cuneo · 605 m

A Val Maira village at 605 meters under Monte San Bernardo, with a reserve of 479 mushroom-shaped erosion columns.

Sadali

Province: Sud Sardegna · 750 m

A Barbagia di Seulo borgo at 750 meters with the only waterfall in Sardegna that drops through the inhabited centre.

Gangi

Province: Palermo · 1,011 m

A Madonie hill town stacked down Monte Marone at 1,011 meters, RAI's Borgo dei Borghi 2014 and the launching pad for the one-euro-house programme.

Montalbano Elicona

Province: Messina · 907 m

A Nebrodi castle town at 907 meters, Frederick III of Aragon's summer residence and gateway to the Argimusco megalithic plateau.

Petralia Soprana

Province: Palermo · 1,147 m

The highest village in the Madonie at 1,147 meters, RAI Borgo dei Borghi 2018 winner, sitting above 80 kilometers of salt tunnels.

Realmonte

Province: Agrigento · 153 m

The Agrigento coast commune with the white marl cliff of the Scala dei Turchi and a salt mine carved into 5-million-year-old halite.

Sambuca di Sicilia

Province: Agrigento · 350 m

An Arab-founded hill town in the Belice valley, named Borgo dei Borghi in 2016, still called Zabut in living memory before 1923.

Baselga di Pinè

Province: Trento · 964 m

The main town of the Piné plateau at 964 metres, with a Blue Flag lake, Italy's outdoor speed skating oval and a baroque Marian sanctuary.

Lucignano

Province: Arezzo · 400 m

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.

Peccioli

Province: Pisa · 144 m

Borgo dei Borghi 2024 in the Valdera hills, a medieval village that funded a public contemporary-art program with revenue from its landfill plant.

Passignano sul Trasimeno

Province: Perugia · 289 m

A near-peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Trasimeno, on the road Hannibal closed when he ambushed the Romans in 217 BC.

Battaglia Terme

Province: Padova · 9 m

A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.

Soave

Province: Verona · 40 m

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A walled wine town twenty kilometers east of Verona, 2022 Borgo dei Borghi winner, where Garganega vineyards climb to the Scaligeri castle on Colle Tenda.