Cities of Italy

Ancona

The Adriatic capital curves around a great natural harbour beneath a headland crowned by its Romanesque-Byzantine cathed

Aosta

The regional capital, founded by Augustus as Augusta Praetoria in 25 BC and still laid out on its Roman grid. The Arch o

Bari

Puglia's regional capital and busy Adriatic port, where the tangled lanes of Bari Vecchia wrap around the Basilica di Sa

Campobasso

The regional capital climbs toward Monforte Castle, whose six-tower silhouette has crowned the hill since its 1458 rebui

Catanzaro

Calabria's regional capital sits high on a ridge between two ravines, looking out over the Ionian Sea from the narrow wa

L'Aquila

Abruzzo's mountain capital, founded by legend from ninety-nine castles, still counts its emblems in ninety-nines: the Fo

Perugia

Umbria's hilltop capital is a city of students and chocolate, its medieval core gathered around the Fontana Maggiore (ca

Trento

The regional capital on the Adige, an elegant city of frescoed Renaissance facades where the Catholic Church convened th

Trieste

A Habsburg seaport with a literary soul, where Piazza Unita d'Italia opens onto the gulf in grand imperial palaces and t

Rome

The Eternal City layers nearly three millennia in a single skyline: the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, the Pantheon's un

Milan

Italy's capital of fashion and finance, where the Duomo's marble spires rise over the Galleria's glass dome and La Scala

Florence

The cradle of the Renaissance, where Brunelleschi's terracotta dome crowns the Duomo and the Uffizi holds Botticelli's B

Venice

A city built on water across 118 islands, where the Grand Canal sweeps past Gothic palaces and St. Mark's Basilica glows

Naples

The unruly, magnificent capital of the south, where Spaccanapoli cuts dead-straight through a Greek street grid and Cara

Turin

The first capital of united Italy and the old seat of the Savoy, laid out in Baroque grandeur along eighteen kilometres

Bologna

Home to the Western world's oldest university and forty kilometres of porticoes, Bologna gathers around Piazza Maggiore

Genoa

Liguria's proud capital and a former maritime republic, where the labyrinth of the medieval caruggi opens onto the gilde

Palermo

Sicily's exuberant capital wears its Arab-Norman past in the golden mosaics of the Palatine Chapel and the layered cathe

Cagliari

Sardinia's capital climbs from its harbor to the walled Castello quarter, ringed by Pisan towers and crowned by the Bast

Abano Terme

One of Europe's oldest thermal resorts, set among the Euganean Hills near Padua. Abano's hotels draw on hot springs and

Abbadia San Salvatore

Abbiategrasso

A market town on the Naviglio Grande southwest of Milan, set among the rice fields and irrigated meadows of the Ticino p

Abetone Cutigliano

Acate

Accadia

Aci Bonaccorsi

Aci Castello

Aci Catena

Aci Sant'Antonio

Acireale

A Baroque town on the eastern coast below Mount Etna, built of dark lava stone and pale limestone. It hosts one of Sicil

Acqualagna

Acquasparta

Acquaviva delle Fonti

Acquaviva Platani

Acquedolci

Acqui Terme

A spa town in the hills of the province of Alessandria, where a hot sulphurous spring known as La Bollente has steamed u

Adrano

Agira

Agliana

Agnone

In this Apennine town the Marinelli foundry has cast bells for the popes since 1339, making it Italy's oldest family fir

Agrigento

A hill city above the southern coast, overlooking the Valley of the Temples. This UNESCO site spreads a ridge of Doric t

Agropoli

The gateway to the Cilento coast, a harbor town south of Salerno where a medieval old quarter climbs to an Aragonese cas

Aidone

Alassio

A sunny resort on the Riviera di Ponente, famous for its long curve of fine sandy beach and the seafront Muretto, a wall

Alba

The capital of the Langhe, a town of medieval brick towers at the heart of the Barolo and Barbaresco wine country. Its a

Albano Laziale

A principal town of the Castelli Romani above Lake Albano, Albano Laziale grew over a Roman military camp and still show

Alberobello

The capital of the trulli, where some fifteen hundred of the conical drystone houses fill the lanes of the Rione Monti a

Alcamo

Alcara li Fusi

Alessandria

A provincial capital on the Tanaro founded in the twelfth century by the Lombard League and named for Pope Alexander III

Alessandria della Rocca

Alessano

Alghero

A walled seaport on the northwest coast where Catalan was carried over from medieval Aragon and is still spoken today. W

Alì

Alì Terme

Alia

Alimena

Aliminusa

Altamura

A town on the Alta Murgia famous across Italy for its bread, the dense, golden-crusted Pane di Altamura, the country's f

Altavilla Milicia

Altofonte

Altomonte

A hill town in the Pollino foothills of northern Calabria, gathered around a striking Angevin Gothic church that holds a

Altopascio

Amandola

Anacapri

Capri's quieter upper town, reached by a switchback road or the open chairlift to Monte Solaro. Here Axel Munthe built V

Anagni

Known as the City of Popes for the four pontiffs born within its walls, Anagni is a Ciociaria hill town remembered for t

Andrano

Andria

A large town in the olive plains south of the coast, the nearest base for visiting Castel del Monte, Frederick II's octa

Anghiari

Anguillara Sabazia

A medieval village curving along a promontory on Lake Bracciano, Anguillara Sabazia gathers its pastel houses around a s

Antillo

Anzio

A seaside town south of Rome, Anzio is remembered worldwide for the Allied landings of 1944 and the war cemeteries that

Apiro

Apricena

Aquileia

Once the fourth city of Roman Italy and a great river port, Aquileia keeps the largest early Christian mosaic floor in t

Aragona

Arbatax

A small port on the Ogliastra coast, known for the strange red porphyry rocks that rise straight from the sea beside it.

Arcevia

Arcidosso

Arezzo

Arezzo is the provincial capital of eastern Tuscany, set on a hill above the Piana Aretina between the Upper Valdarno, V