🐝Città del Miele

Pescina

Province: L'Aquila · 735 m

A Marsica town at 735 meters that lost five thousand of six thousand people in the 1915 earthquake, birthplace of Cardinal Mazarin and Ignazio Silone.

Melendugno

Province: Lecce · 36 m

Salento's archaeological-beach capital — a 10,000-resident Lecce-province comune covering 17 km of Adriatic coast with three Bandiera Blu beaches (Torre dell'Orso, San Foca, Sant'Andrea), the Grotta della Poesia karst pool (one of the world's most beautiful natural pools per National Geographic), and the Bronze-Age-to-Messapian-to-medieval Roca Vecchia archaeological site.

Grottole

Province: Matera · 481 m

A hilltop borgo at 481 meters between the Bradano and Basento, where six hundred empty houses outnumber residents in the centro storico.

Lapio

Province: Avellino · 590 m

The heart of Fiano di Avellino DOCG country — a 1,428-resident Irpinia borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, with the medieval Castello Filangieri anchoring an intact centro and a rare four-signal combination (Città del Vino + Olio + Miele + Nocciola) recognising the whole local agricultural ecosystem.

Amandola

Province: Fermo · 550 m

A Sibillini gateway at 550 meters on three hills above the Tenna valley, founded 1248 and damaged but not levelled in 2016.

Camerino

Province: Macerata · 661 m

A university city at 661 meters on the ridge between the Chienti and Potenza, Da Varano capital from 1259 to 1539, rebuilding after 2016.

Matelica

Province: Macerata · 354 m

A Verdicchio town at 354 meters in the upper Esino valley, with a Roman marble globe in its archaeological museum.

Montelupone

Province: Macerata · 272 m

A walled hill borgo at 272 meters above the lower Potenza valley, with a fourteenth-century civic loggia and a 1889 horseshoe theatre.

Valfornace

Province: Macerata · 441 m

A 909-resident Sibillini commune at 441 meters in the upper Chienti valley, born in 2017 from the merger of Pievebovigliana and Fiordimonte.

Sortino

Province: Siracusa · 438 m

The eastern gateway to UNESCO Pantalica at 438 meters in the Iblei, Sicily's city of honey and home of the stuffed Sortino pizzolo.

Chiusdino

Province: Siena · 564 m

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.

Montalcino

Province: Siena · 564 m

• 🍷Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

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.

Mulazzo

Province: Massa-Carrara · 351 m

A Malaspina fief in the Lunigiana hills where Dante stayed in 1306, with a frazione of booksellers who walked their wares across Italy.

Pontremoli

Province: Massa-Carrara · 236 m

The capital of Lunigiana at the confluence of the Magra and Verde, holding the prehistoric stele statues and the oldest book prize in Italy.

Bevagna

Province: Perugia · 225 m

Roman Mevania on the Umbrian plain at 225 meters, four medieval quarters that compete every June in a reconstructed market of the 13th century.

Foligno

Province: Perugia · 235 m

A valley town at 235 meters on the Topino, where Dante's Divine Comedy was first printed in 1472.

Asolo

Province: Treviso · 205 m

A walled hill town at 205 meters that Caterina Cornaro ran as her court after trading Cyprus to Venice in 1489.

Lazise

Province: Verona · 76 m

The walled port on the southeastern shore of Lake Garda granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.