Where to begin
Italy's cities are where most trips begin and end: the capitals of its twenty regions, from Rome and Milan to Palermo and Aosta, and the smaller towns that hold just as much, in the Tuscan hills, on the Amalfi Coast or along the northern lakes. Each guide covers what to see, when to go, where to stay and what to eat, and the festivals worth planning around. Start with a region, or browse every city below.
1,275 cities

Montegrotto Terme
Veneto
Alassio
Liguria
Alberobello
Puglia
Cividale del Friuli
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
La Maddalena
SardiniaThe main town of an archipelago of seven granite islands off the Gallura coast, now a national park.
Lipari
SicilyThe largest and liveliest of the Aeolian Islands, a UNESCO-listed volcanic archipelago north of Sicily.
Peschiera del Garda
VenetoA fortified town at the southern tip of Lake Garda, where the Mincio river flows out of the lake.
Taormina
SicilySicily's most glamorous resort, a cliff-top town between the sea and Mount Etna.
Langhirano
Emilia-RomagnaTucked in the Parma hills along the Parma river, Langhirano is the capital of prosciutto di Parma.
Volterra
Tuscany
Atri
Abruzzo
Barga
TuscanyA stone-built hill town in the Garfagnana, looking out over the Serchio valley to the Apuan Alps.
Bordighera
Liguria
Fiuggi
Lazio
Lerici
LiguriaA pretty harbour town on the Gulf of La Spezia, the bay the Romantics christened the Gulf of Poets.
Monteriggioni
Tuscany
Valdobbiadene
Veneto
Deruta
Umbria
Giardini Naxos
SicilyA seaside resort in a wide bay below Taormina, on the site of Naxos, the first Greek colony founded in Sicily.
Montagnana
VenetoOne of Italy's finest walled towns, encircled by nearly two kilometres of brick ramparts studded with two dozen towers.
Iseo
LombardyA market town on the southern shore of Lake Iseo, the least crowded of the great Lombard lakes.
Pizzo
CalabriaA Tyrrhenian town stacked above the sea, famous for tartufo, the chocolate-cored gelato ball invented here.
Sermoneta
Lazio
Tirano
LombardyA town in the Valtellina where the Bernina Express begins its climb, the red railway that crosses the Alps to St.
