Comuni Virtuosi
Comuni Virtuosi in Tuscany
5 towns
Tuscany has 5 Comuni Virtuosi communes in our index. They cluster in the Lucca, Firenze, and Prato provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Carmignano, Fiesole, and Seravezza. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Carmignano
Province: Prato · 189 m
A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Pontormo's Visitation hangs in the parish church and Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.
Fiesole
Province: Firenze · 295 m
An Etruscan hilltop at 295 meters above Florence, founded in the ninth century BC and conquered by Rome in 283 BC, still looking down on what later replaced it.
Seravezza
Province: Lucca · 100 m
The Versilia town at the foot of Monte Altissimo where Michelangelo opened the Pope's marble quarries and Cosimo I built his summer palace.
Stazzema
Province: Lucca · 440 m
A mountain commune of seventeen hamlets in the Apuan Alps, site of the August 1944 Sant'Anna massacre and Italy's National Park of Peace.
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Viareggio
Province: Lucca · 2 m
The Versilia capital, a Liberty-architecture seafront built around the 1873 Carnival and the 254-kilogram papier-mâché floats that still parade every February.
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The market town between the Soligo and Lierza rivers in the Prosecco UNESCO zone, birthplace of the twentieth-century poet Andrea Zanzotto.
Vallefoglia
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A 2014 merger commune at 295 meters in the Foglia valley, born from Colbordolo, birthplace of Raffaello's father, and Sant'Angelo in Lizzola.
Abano Terme
Province: Padova
Europe's oldest thermal town on the Euganean Hills' eastern slope, where 80°C bromo-iodine springs have been drawing bathers since the eighth century BC.
Bosa
Province: Oristano
A colour-washed riverside town on Sardinia's only navigable river, with a Malaspina castle on the hill and the tanneries of Sas Conzas along the Temo.
Castagnole delle Lanze
Province: Asti
An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.