Every city in Tuscany

From the capital to the smallest borghi.

FlorenceThe capitalThe cradle of the Renaissance, where Brunelleschi's terracotta dome crowns the Duomo and the Uffizi holds Botticelli's Birth of Venus. Michelangelo's David, the Ponte Vecchio's jewelers and the Medici palaces make Florence an open-air gallery on the Arno.
Abbadia San Salvatore
Abetone Cutigliano
Agliana
Altopascio
Anghiari
Arcidosso
ArezzoArezzo is the provincial capital of eastern Tuscany, set on a hill above the Piana Aretina between the Upper Valdarno, Val di Chiana, Casentino and Valtiberina. Its civic framework combines qualified Etruscan and Roman layers, an amphitheatre and locally produced terra sigillata, medieval growth, and a long period under Florentine rule. Its major cultural sites, including Piazza Grande and Basilica di San Francesco, need distinct histories and visitor information.
Asciano
Aulla
Badia Tedalda
Bagni di Lucca
Bagno a Ripoli
Bagnone
Barberino di Mugello
Barberino Tavarnelle
BargaA stone-built hill town in the Garfagnana, looking out over the Serchio valley to the Apuan Alps. Its tangle of medieval lanes climbs to a Romanesque cathedral, and a long history of emigration gives Barga lasting ties to Scotland.
Bibbiena
Bibbona
Bientina
Borgo a Mozzano
Borgo San Lorenzo
Bucine
Buggiano
Buonconvento
Buti
Calci
Calcinaia
Calenzano
CamaioreA Versilia town straddling the line between coast and hills, its old center founded along the medieval Via Francigena. Behind the beaches of its seaside frazione rise olive groves and the first slopes of the Apuan Alps.
Campagnatico
Campi BisenzioA town on the Bisenzio river in the plain northwest of Florence, part of the densely settled belt between the capital and Prato. It serves as an everyday gateway to the wider Florentine area.
Campiglia Marittima
Campo nell'ElbaCampo nell'Elba is Elba's largest municipality by area, with Marina di Campo as its administrative seat and Pianosa within its municipal territory. Its coast, historic hill villages, granite landscapes, airport, Pianosa archaeology and prison history need separate evidence-backed coverage.
Camporgiano
Cantagallo
Capalbio
Capannoli
Capannori
CapoliveriCapoliveri is an Elban hill town whose historic identity joins a strategic historic centre with the long iron-mining landscape of Monte Calamita. The town, the Calamita mines, the former workers' workshops, coastal settlements and the Polluce shipwreck museum need distinct coverage rather than a single resort narrative.
Capolona
Capraia e Limite
Capraia Isola
Caprese Michelangelo
Careggine
Carmignano
CarraraCarrara is a municipality in north-western Tuscany at the foot of the Apuan Alps, shaped by the extraction and working of its marble. This noindex foundation separates the city from its quarry basins, marble institutions and coastal settlements.
Casale Marittimo
Casciana Terme Lari
CascinaA town on the Arno plain east of Pisa, traditionally a center of furniture-making. A fifteenth-century battle here was the subject of a lost Michelangelo cartoon, and arcaded streets still mark its medieval origins.
Casola in Lunigiana
Casole d'Elsa
Castagneto CarducciA village on the wooded hills above the Etruscan Coast, where the poet Giosue Carducci spent his childhood. Below it stretch the vineyards of Bolgheri, source of some of Italy's most coveted reds.
Castel del Piano
Castel Focognano
Castel San Niccolò
Castelfiorentino
Castelfranco di Sotto
Castelfranco Piandiscò
Castell'Azzara
Castellina in ChiantiA fortified village on a ridge between the Elsa, Arbia and Pesa valleys, deep in the Chianti Classico hills. A vaulted medieval passageway, the Via delle Volte, rings its old center above slopes of vines and olives.
Castellina Marittima
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Castelnuovo di GarfagnanaThe main town of the Garfagnana, set where the Serchio gathers its mountain tributaries between the Apennines and the Apuan Alps. A fortress that once housed the poet Ariosto guards its center, a base for the surrounding wild valleys.
Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina
Castiglion Fibocchi
Castiglion Fiorentino
Castiglione d'Orcia
Castiglione della PescaiaA Maremma seaside town beneath a fortified medieval hilltop, its harbor edged by pine forest and long sandy beaches. The marshes of the nearby Diaccia Botrona nature reserve make it a haunt for birdlife.
Castiglione di Garfagnana
Cavriglia
Cecina
Cerreto Guidi
CertaldoA brick-built hill town in the Val d'Elsa, its upper borgo reached by funicular and untouched by modern building. Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, was born and died here, and his house is now a museum.
Cetona
Chianciano Terme
Chianni
Chiesina Uzzanese
Chitignano
Chiusdino
ChiusiA hill town in the Valdichiana that was once a leading Etruscan city, ruled by the legendary king Porsenna. Its painted tombs and an outstanding archaeological museum preserve the legacy buried in the hills around it.
Chiusi della Verna
Cinigiano
Civitella in Val di Chiana
Civitella Paganico
Colle di Val d'ElsaA two-tiered town in the Val d'Elsa, its upper borgo perched on a ridge above the modern lower town. Colle is the capital of Italian crystal, where furnaces have been blowing fine lead glass for generations.
Collesalvetti
Comano
Coreglia Antelminelli
CortonaAn Etruscan hill town high above the Valdichiana, its steep streets and Renaissance churches looking out toward Lake Trasimeno. International readers know it from Under the Tuscan Sun, but its roots run far deeper.
Crespina Lorenzana
Dicomano
EmpoliA town on the Arno between Florence and Pisa, long a center of glassmaking and a busy market for the surrounding valley. Its Romanesque collegiate church anchors the historic heart of the lower Arno plain.
Fabbriche di Vergemoli
Fauglia
FiesoleA hill town set on the slopes above Florence, settled by the Etruscans long before the city below it existed. Its Roman theatre and sweeping terrace views have drawn Florentines escaping the summer heat for centuries.
Figline e Incisa Valdarno
Filattiera
Firenzuola
Fivizzano
Foiano della Chiana
Follonica
Forte dei MarmiThe most fashionable resort on the Versilia coast, named for the marble that was once shipped from its pier. Today Forte dei Marmi is a byword for elegant beach holidays, with its weekly market and rows of striped bathing cabins.
Fosciandora
Fosdinovo
Fucecchio
Gaiole in Chianti
Gallicano
Gambassi Terme
Gavorrano
Giglio IslandA granite island in the Tuscan Archipelago, ringed by clear water and crowned by a walled medieval castello. Reached by ferry from Porto Santo Stefano, Giglio offers swimming coves and slopes of vineyards above the sea.
Greve in ChiantiThe unofficial capital of the Chianti, gathered around a funnel-shaped arcaded piazza lined with butchers and wine shops. Greve makes a natural base for tasting the Sangiovese reds of the surrounding estates.
GrossetoGrosseto is the provincial capital of the Maremma. Its historic centre is shaped by the Medici Walls, a late-sixteenth-century bastioned fortification system whose Cassero and bastions require distinct histories. The city’s municipal archaeology and art museum preserves material from the Grosseto centre, while Roselle Archaeological Park remains a separate state archaeological site in the municipal area.
Guardistallo
Impruneta
Lajatico
Lamporecchio
Larciano
Lastra a Signa
Laterina Pergine Valdarno
Licciana Nardi
LivornoLivorno is a purpose-built Medici port city whose modern identity formed through late-sixteenth-century planning, international commerce and the Livornine measures. Its historic core reveals the link between port and city in the Fossi, former defensive waterways adapted for commercial use, and in Venezia Nuova, a mercantile district of canals, bridges, warehouses and merchant palaces. Its free-port history must be treated as historic context, not a current customs regime.
Londa
Loro Ciuffenna
LuccaLucca is the provincial capital in northern Tuscany's Piana di Lucca. Its Roman urban plan remains legible in the historic centre, while the surviving bastioned walls trace the city's third major enclosure and later became a public promenade. Medieval commerce, the Via Francigena and silk manufacture shaped the city's long civic history.
Lucignano
Magliano in Toscana
Manciano
MarcianaMarciana is a historic hill settlement and municipality on western Elba, set on the slopes of Monte Capanne. Its Pisan fortress, historic borgo, mountain, sanctuaries, museums, archaeology, coast and pastoral landscapes need separate evidence-backed coverage.
Marciana MarinaMarciana Marina is Elba’s smallest municipality, a distinct coastal settlement shaped by its historic harbour, Torre degli Appiani, Cotone quarter, coastal landscapes and proximity to protected territory. Its maritime, built and living heritage need separate evidence-backed coverage.
Marciano della Chiana
Marliana
Marradi
MassaA city between the Apuan Alps and the sea, once the seat of the Cybo-Malaspina dukes whose Renaissance palace still stands. Marble mountains rise behind it while a sandy coast spreads below.
Massa e Cozzile
Massa MarittimaA medieval town in the metal-bearing Colline Metallifere, grown wealthy on the silver and copper mined since Etruscan times. Its sloping piazza and Romanesque-Gothic cathedral crown a place far from any sea, despite its name.
Massarosa
Minucciano
Molazzana
Monsummano Terme
Montaione
MontalcinoA hilltop town crowned by a fourteenth-century fortress, the last stronghold of the Sienese republic. Its slopes produce Brunello di Montalcino, one of Italy's most prestigious and age-worthy reds.
Montale
Monte Argentario
Monte San Savino
Montecarlo
Montecatini TermeItaly's grand spa town in the Valdinievole, its thermal establishments set in formal gardens. The graceful Art Nouveau pavilions, where Verdi and royalty once took the waters, recall a golden age of European cure resorts.
Montecatini Val di Cecina
Montelupo Fiorentino
Montemignaio
Montemurlo
MontepulcianoA Renaissance hill town stretched along a high ridge between the Val d'Orcia and the Valdichiana. Noble palaces line its climbing main street, and its cellars age Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a robust Sangiovese red.
Monterchi
MonteriggioniA perfectly preserved walled village on a low hill north of Siena, its complete ring of ramparts studded with fourteen towers. Dante likened those towers to a crown of giants, and the Via Francigena still passes its gates.
Monteroni d'Arbia
Monterotondo Marittimo
Montescudaio
Montespertoli
Montevarchi
Monteverdi Marittimo
Monticiano
Montieri
Montignoso
Montopoli in Val d'Arno
Mulazzo
Murlo
OrbetelloA town built on a thin strip of land in the middle of its own lagoon, joined to Monte Argentario by a causeway. Spanish-era fortifications guard the streets, while the surrounding wetlands shelter flamingos and migrating birds.
Orciano Pisano
Ortignano Raggiolo
Palaia
Palazzuolo sul Senio
Peccioli
Pelago
Pescaglia
PesciaA town in the Valdinievole astride the river that shares its name, long devoted to the cultivation of flowers. Its growers supply markets across Europe, and Pescia anchors the green stretch of countryside between Lucca and Pistoia.
Piancastagnaio
Piazza al Serchio
PienzaThe ideal Renaissance city, redesigned in the fifteenth century by Pope Pius II as a model of harmonious planning. Its cathedral and palace face the Val d'Orcia, and its dairies produce a celebrated Pecorino di Pienza.
PietrasantaA refined Versilia town at the foot of the marble Apuan Alps, long a magnet for sculptors. Foundries and stone workshops draw artists from around the world, while its piazza and galleries give the old center a creative buzz.
Pieve a Nievole
Pieve Fosciana
Pieve Santo Stefano
PiombinoPiombino is a coastal city whose identity joins a historic port and former state capital with industrial heritage and a wider archaeological landscape. It was the capital of a small autonomous state from 1399 to 1815, first under the Appiani and later through Ludovisi and Ludovisi Boncompagni phases. Its municipal archive also treats steelmaking as a core modern historical layer. Baratti–Populonia is a distinct archaeological destination within the municipality, not a synonym for the city centre.
PistoiaA handsome small city below the Apennines, its medieval piazza framed by a striped Romanesque cathedral and baptistery. The surrounding plain is a vast nursery, supplying ornamental plants and trees across Europe.
PitiglianoA town that rises seamlessly from a tufa cliff in southern Tuscany, its houses fused with the rock. Known as Little Jerusalem for its centuries-old Jewish community, Pitigliano keeps a restored synagogue in its lanes.
Podenzana
Poggibonsi
Poggio a Caiano
Pomarance
Ponsacco
Pontassieve
Ponte Buggianese
PontederaA town on the lower Arno plain, forever linked to the Vespa scooter that has been built here since 1946. The Piaggio Museum traces the design that put postwar Italy on two wheels.
Pontremoli
Poppi
Porcari
Porto AzzurroPorto Azzurro is an Elban coastal town whose historic identity is bound to Porto Longone and the Spanish fortress of San Giacomo. The town, its bay, fortress, prison history, harbour and nearby mining landscape require separate treatment rather than a single resort narrative.
PortoferraioPortoferraio is an Elban city whose historic centre preserves the municipal identity of Cosmopoli, a Renaissance fortified foundation dated by the Comune to 1548 under Cosimo I de' Medici. Its historic fortified system includes distinct places such as Forte Falcone, Forte Stella and Linguella. Palazzina dei Mulini, within the city, is one of the two National Museums of the Napoleonic Residences of Elba; city, island, forts, residences, port and archaeology need separate coverage.
PratoTuscany's textile capital and one of its largest cities, weaving cloth since the Middle Ages. Beyond the looms, Prato is the home of cantucci, the almond biscotti traditionally dipped in sweet Vin Santo.
Pratovecchio Stia
Quarrata
Radda in ChiantiA hilltop village at the heart of the Chianti Classico zone, ringed by oak woods and vineyards that produce the region's emblematic Sangiovese reds. Radda's medieval streets and wine cellars make it a quiet anchor of Tuscan wine country.
Radicofani
Radicondoli
Rapolano Terme
Reggello
Rignano sull'Arno
RioRio is eastern Elba’s merged municipality, bringing together the medieval hill settlement of Rio nell'Elba, the iron-mining harbour of Rio Marina, Cavo and a network of coastal settlements. Its mining, maritime, archaeological and landscape layers need separate evidence-backed coverage.
Riparbella
Roccalbegna
Roccastrada
Rosignano Marittimo
Rufina
Sambuca Pistoiese
San Casciano dei Bagni
San Casciano in Val di Pesa
San GimignanoThe town of beautiful towers, where fourteen medieval skyscrapers still spike the skyline above the Val d'Elsa. Around Piazza della Cisterna the local vineyards pour Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Tuscany's noble white.
San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giuliano Terme
San Godenzo
San Marcello Piteglio
San MiniatoA ridge town between Florence and Pisa, crowned by Frederick II's tower and famed across Italy for its white truffles. Each autumn the streets fill for the truffle market, when the prized tuber of the surrounding hills comes to table.
San Quirico d'Orcia
San Romano in Garfagnana
San Vincenzo
Sansepolcro
Santa Croce sull'Arno
Santa Fiora
Santa Luce
Santa Maria a Monte
Sarteano
Sassetta
ScandicciA working town just southwest of Florence, set where the city's edge gives way to the vine-stitched hills of the Chianti foothills. Scandicci offers an everyday Tuscany within easy reach of the capital's monuments.
Scansano
Scarlino
Scarperia e San Piero
Seggiano
Semproniano
SeravezzaA town at the foot of the Apuan Alps where two mountain torrents meet, set among the marble quarries of upper Versilia. Michelangelo came here to source white stone, and a Medici villa still marks its Renaissance importance.
Serravalle Pistoiese
Sestino
Sesto FiorentinoA town on the plain northwest of Florence at the foot of Monte Morello, long associated with the Richard-Ginori porcelain works. It blends a manufacturing past with easy access to the hills above the city.
SignaA town where the Bisenzio meets the Arno west of Florence, historically a river crossing and a center of straw-weaving for the famous Florentine hats. It sits on the threshold of the Montalbano hills.
Sillano Giuncugnano
Sinalunga
SoranoA tufa town in the wild southern corner of Tuscany, its houses seeming to grow from the volcanic rock above the Lente gorge. Ancient sunken lanes carved by the Etruscans, the vie cave, thread the cliffs around it.
Sovicille
Stazzema
Subbiano
SuveretoA medieval borgo in the Val di Cornia, its cork-oak hills sloping down toward the Etruscan Coast. Stone lanes, a Romanesque parish church and nearby vineyards make Suvereto a quiet corner of the southern Tuscan coast.
Talla
Terranuova Bracciolini
Terricciola
Torrita di Siena
Trequanda
Tresana
Uzzano
Vagli Sotto
Vaglia
Vaiano
Vecchiano
Vernio
ViareggioThe lively heart of the Versilia coast, lined with Liberty-style bathing establishments and a long sandy seafront. Viareggio is best known for its Carnival, whose colossal papier-mache floats parade satirically along the promenade each winter.
Vicchio
Vicopisano
Villa Basilica
Villa Collemandina
Villafranca in Lunigiana
Vinci
VolterraAn ancient hill town high above the Val di Cecina, layered with Etruscan, Roman and medieval remains, including a finely excavated Roman theatre. Volterra has carved its translucent local alabaster into art for centuries.
Zeri
PisaA medieval maritime power on the Arno, gathered around the green of the Piazza dei Miracoli. There the famously tilting bell tower stands beside a Romanesque cathedral and the frescoed Camposanto, its soil said to come from Golgotha.
SienaA Gothic city built across three hills, gathered around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo where the Palio horse race is run twice each summer. Its striped marble cathedral and the towering Torre del Mangia define a perfectly preserved medieval skyline.