The north
- PiedmontPiemonte
- Aosta ValleyValle d'Aosta
- LombardyLombardiaLombardy runs from Milan's glass towers to the long fingers of the Italian Lakes and the snowfields of the Valtellina.
- Trentino-Alto AdigeTrentino-Alto Adige is Italy at its most Alpine, where the rose-pink towers of the Dolomites rise over vineyards and apple orchards.
- Veneto
- Friuli-Venezia GiuliaItaly's northeastern corner, where the country meets Central Europe.
- LiguriaLiguria is a thin ribbon of coast pressed between mountains and the sea, the birthplace of pesto and the home of the Cinque Terre.
- Emilia-Romagna
The center
- TuscanyToscanaTuscany is the landscape the rest of the world pictures when it imagines Italy.
- UmbriaUmbria is the green heart of Italy, a landlocked country of hilltop towns, Franciscan silence, and black truffles.
- MarcheMarche unfolds between the Adriatic and the Apennines, a plural land of Renaissance hill towns and velvet beaches.
- LazioLazio is the region of the Eternal City, where 3,000 years of history rise from Etruscan tombs to Vatican domes.
- AbruzzoItaly's wild green heart, where wolves and bears still roam national parks beneath the Apennines' highest peaks.
The south
- MoliseItaly's quietest region, where Samnite ruins and Roman towns sleep among wheat fields.
- CampaniaCampania is Italy at full volume, where Vesuvius looms over Naples and the Amalfi Coast falls in pastel terraces to a turquoise sea.
- PugliaPuglia is the long, sun-bleached heel of Italy's boot, ribboned by 800 kilometers of coast and silver olive groves.
- BasilicataBasilicata, the ancient Lucania, is Italy's least-visited mainland region, a wild interior of stone towns crowned by Matera and its cave-carved Sassi.
- CalabriaCalabria is the wild toe of Italy's boot, ringed by 800 kilometers of coast and backed by the forests of the Sila and Aspromonte.