Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Tuscany
8 towns
Tuscany holds 8 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Livorno, Grosseto, and Massa-Carrara provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Grosseto, Isola del Giglio, and Livorno. 5 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Grosseto
Province: Grosseto · 10 m
The Maremma capital on the Ombrone river, ringed by hexagonal Medici walls of 1564 that now serve as the city's public park.
Isola del Giglio
Province: Grosseto · 405 m
A granite island in the Tyrrhenian Archipelago, walled village on the ridge, port below, where the Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012.
Livorno
Province: Livorno · 3 m
Tuscany's working port and Medici-planned 'New City' — a 16th-century planned town built on reclaimed coast, with a Venice-like canal quarter, the Quattro Mori monument, and a 1.5-km seafront promenade that locals call the world's most beautiful balcony.
Poppi
Province: Arezzo · 437 m
The Casentino borgo at 437 meters whose castle sat above the field where Dante fought the Battle of Campaldino in June 1289.
Capoliveri
Province: Livorno · 167 m
A medieval hill town at 167 meters on the eastern lobe of Elba, with 35 kilometers of coast and the iron mines of Monte Calamita below.
Capraia Isola
Province: Livorno · 19 m
A volcanic island of 370 residents and one village, the third largest of the Tuscan Archipelago, a penal colony from 1873 to 1986 and a national park since.
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Fivizzano
Province: Massa-Carrara · 373 m
Don't come for Fivizzano-the-town — come for the frazioni: Equi Terme with its thermal grotto-and-cave complex, Verrucola's intact Malaspina fortress, Gassano's mountain panorama, and a 264 km² Lunigiana commune covering 92 hamlets inside the Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano.
Licciana Nardi
Province: Massa-Carrara · 215 m
A Lunigiana Malaspina village at 215 meters in the Apennine Tosco-Emiliano park, named in 1933 for the Risorgimento patriot Anacarsi Nardi.
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Pieve di Soligo
Province: Treviso
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.