🥜Città della Nocciola

Laino Borgo

Province: Cosenza · 582 m

Southern Italy's only Sacro Monte, sixteen pilgrimage chapels begun in 1557, on the Lao river canyon that made it Calabria's rafting capital.

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.

Mercogliano

Province: Avellino · 550 m

A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above and its Black Madonna.

Montesarchio

Province: Benevento · 300 m

Ancient Caudium at 300 meters in the Valle Caudina, the Roman defeat at the Forche Caudine still attached to the name two thousand years later.

Nola

Province: Napoli · 34 m

The Campanian plain town where Augustus died in AD 14 and Giordano Bruno was born in 1548, famous for the June Festa dei Gigli.

Pompei

Province: Napoli · 30 m

The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.

Sant'Agata de' Goti

Province: Benevento · 156 m

A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.

Summonte

Province: Avellino · 738 m

An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of Monte Vallatrone, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower over the Partenio.

Bassano in Teverina

Province: Viterbo · 304 m

A tufa-spur borgo of 1,260 above the Tiber valley between Lazio and Umbria, with a clock tower that hides an eleventh-century animated bell tower.

Bomarzo

Province: Viterbo · 263 m

The Tuscia village below the Sacro Bosco, the 16th-century stone-monster garden built by a grieving condottiero for his dead wife.

Bracciano

Province: Roma · 280 m

The Lazio lake town with the eighth-largest lake in Italy below it and one of the best-preserved Renaissance castles in the country above it.

Calcata

Province: Viterbo · 220 m

A tufa-cliff village forty kilometers north of Rome, condemned and abandoned in the 1930s, then occupied by artists and never left.

Capranica

Province: Viterbo · 370 m

A medieval hill town on the old Via Cassia, taken by the Anguillara family in 1305 and remembered as the place Petrarch stayed in 1337.

Caprarola

Province: Viterbo · 510 m

A Cimini hill town above Lago di Vico, dominated by the pentagonal Villa Farnese that Vignola built for the Farnese cardinals between 1559 and 1573.

Oriolo Romano

Province: Viterbo · 420 m

A planned sixteenth-century village in the Sabatini hills, founded in 1560 by a Santacroce nobleman next to the UNESCO beech forest of Monte Raschio.

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.

Sutri

Province: Viterbo · 291 m

An Etruscan and Roman town on a tuff spur, with a rock-cut amphitheater carved straight from the volcanic stone of the Cimini.

Viterbo

Province: Viterbo · 326 m

The medieval capital of the Tuscia, papal seat for five popes between 1257 and 1281 and home to the longest conclave in Church history.

Vitorchiano

Province: Viterbo · 285 m

A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo, and the only place outside Easter Island with a true Moai.

Alba

Province: Cuneo · 172 m

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The Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.

Canelli

Province: Asti · 157 m

The Asti Spumante town at 157 meters in the Belbo valley, where 20 kilometers of underground tuff cellars hold millions of bottles at constant temperature.

Castagnole delle Lanze

Province: Asti · 298 m

An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.

Cortemilia

Province: Cuneo · 247 m

An Alta Langa town at 247 meters split by the Bormida, capital of the Tonda Gentile di Langa hazelnut.

Santo Stefano Belbo

Province: Cuneo · 175 m

A Belbo valley village at 175 meters between the Langhe and Asti hills, birthplace of Cesare Pavese and the largest producer of Moscato d'Asti.

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.

Polizzi Generosa

Province: Palermo · 917 m

A Madonie town at 917 meters inside a UNESCO Global Geopark, hazelnut country and the birthplace of Domenico Dolce.

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.