# Travel guides · viaggi.alexfreenet.com (English)

> Free travel guides in English, organised by country and region (viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/<country>/<region>/). For each region: places with coordinates and descriptions, little-known places told through their history and why they are worth the trip, multi-day itineraries, regional history, practical tips, hiking trails with GPX and water-sports spots. No ads. Translated from the Italian originals (https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/). Part of the alexfreenet network (https://alexfreenet.com/en/).

## Italy

- [All regions](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/)
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- [UNESCO World Heritage sites in Italy](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/unesco/): all 62 sites on a map, by region
- [Traditional festivals calendar](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/festivals/): 104 festivals, month by month
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- [Guide to Aosta Valley](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/): 17 places, 5 hidden gems, 4 itineraries. Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Gran Paradiso and Roman Aosta, but also the village you can't reach by car, Europe's highest vineyards that survived phylloxera, a Roman bridge built by a private citizen fifty metres above a gorge, and a castle with 15th-century shops painted under its portico.
- [Guide to Piedmont](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/): 27 places, 9 hidden gems, 7 itineraries. Turin, the Barolo hills of the Langhe and the Borromean Islands, but also a fort three kilometres long with a covered staircase of four thousand steps, a village that made its living buying hair all over Europe, the largest elliptical dome in the world and the oldest book of English poetry, kept in Vercelli.
- [Guide to Liguria](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/): 30 places, 9 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. Genoa, the Cinque Terre and Portofino, but also the statue of a peanut seller who saved all her life to have it carved, an artists' village born from the ruins of an earthquake, the village of the witches and a cave with the footprints of people who lived fourteen thousand years ago.
- [Guide to Lombardy](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/): 30 places, 10 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Milan, Lake Como, Bergamo and Mantua, but also the vineyard Ludovico il Moro gave to Leonardo, the cursed island of Lake Como, a UNESCO-listed workers' village, a Tuscan village near Varese and an alpine town buried by a landslide one night in 1618.
- [Guide to Trentino-South Tyrol](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/): 27 places, 8 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. The Dolomites, Bolzano with the man who came out of the ice, Merano and Lago di Braies, but also a castle frescoed with tales of knights, a bell tower rising out of a lake, a lake that turned red every summer and the forest where wood for violins is chosen.
- [Guide to Veneto](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/): 30 places, 9 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Venice, Verona, Cortina and the Prosecco hills, but also the island where Byron studied Armenian, a rock arch said to have inspired Dante, Petrarch's mummified cat and a military road with fifty-two tunnels dug in ten months.
- [Guide to Friuli Venezia Giulia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/): 25 places, 7 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. Trieste, Aquileia, Palmanova and Cividale, but also the Karst farm taverns that owe their existence to an emperor's decree, a cathedral rebuilt stone by stone after the earthquake, the village of clocks that ticked in the world's railway stations and a church carved into a cave high above the valley.
- [Guide to Emilia-Romagna](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/): 27 places, 9 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Bologna, Ravenna, Parma and Ferrara, but also the castle where an emperor waited three days in the snow, the Moorish fortress of a healer count mentioned by Dostoevsky, the mud volcanoes of the Apennines and the abbey where a monk invented the names of the musical notes.
- [Guide to Tuscany](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/): 44 places, 15 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. The art cities and the famous hills, but also the castle where Dante fought, the village where people talk about Scotland, the sword in the stone at San Galgano and the square that is a thermal pool. Forty-four places on the map, fifteen told through their stories, six ready-made itineraries.
- [Guide to Umbria](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/): 28 places, 11 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Assisi, Perugia and Orvieto, but also the rock at Gubbio that tells the story of the dinosaurs' extinction, the Inquisition cells beneath Narni, a village built on water and a Lombard church that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Twenty-eight places, eleven hidden gems with their stories, six itineraries.
- [Guide to Marche](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/): 24 places, 9 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. Urbino, the Conero, the Frasassi caves and Ascoli, but also the fortress where the masterpieces of Italian art were hidden during the war, the gilded bronzes found by chance by two farmers, the square where an emperor was born in a tent and the lake where legend says Pontius Pilate lies buried.
- [Guide to Lazio](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/): 33 places, 9 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. Rome, Hadrian's Villa and Civita di Bagnoregio, but also a fairy-tale district where the Beatles are said to have jumped into a fountain, ancient statues among the turbines of a power station, the lake where Caligula's ships were found and the island where the manifesto of a united Europe was written.
- [Guide to Abruzzo](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/): 23 places, 7 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. The Gran Sasso, Rocca Calascio, the national park with the Marsican bear and the Trabocchi Coast, but also the hermitages of the pope who resigned, the fortress that surrendered after the Kingdom of Italy was born, the tunnel with which Emperor Claudius tried to drain a lake and a stone warrior found by a farmer ploughing his vineyard.
- [Guide to Molise](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/): 16 places, 6 hidden gems, 3 itineraries. The seaside old town of Termoli, the Roman city of Saepinum and the theatre of the Samnites, but also the oldest bell foundry in the world, the tooth of a child who lived six hundred thousand years ago, villages where people still speak an old form of Croatian and the village where two and a half metres of snow fell in a single day.
- [Guide to Campania](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/): 35 places, 11 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Naples, Pompeii, Capri and the Amalfi Coast, but also a cemetery of skulls adopted by the people of Naples, the Roman cistern of the Misenum fleet, an abandoned village with its square intact and a river that vanishes underground and reappears six kilometres later.
- [Guide to Puglia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/): 34 places, 10 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. The trulli, the Baroque of Lecce and the sea of the Salento, but also a Neanderthal sealed inside a cave in the Murgia, Frederick II's Muslim city, a basilica made of wire mesh and the spot where Italy's first sunrise appears.
- [Guide to Basilicata](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/): 19 places, 7 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. The Sassi of Matera, the Lucanian Dolomites and Maratea, but also the cave known as the Sistine Chapel of rock painting, the abandoned town where films are shot, Carlo Levi's village, a poet killed by her brothers and a Tibetan bridge dedicated to the man who launched Apollo 11.
- [Guide to Calabria](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/): 23 places, 9 hidden gems, 5 itineraries. Tropea, Scilla, the Riace Bronzes and the Pollino, but also an abandoned village on a hand-shaped rock, villages where a language descended from ancient Greek is still spoken, a purple gospel from the 6th century, the giant pines of the Sila and the king of the Goths whom legend says lies buried under a river with his treasure.
- [Guide to Sicily](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/): 33 places, 8 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Palermo, Syracuse, the Valley of the Temples and Etna, but also the quarries where the Greeks left their columns half-cut, the town that said no to the Vespers, a work of art the size of a destroyed town and a village inside a cave.
- [Guide to Sardinia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/): 80 places, 10 hidden gems, 6 itineraries. Beaches, villages, nature and nuraghi on a map to explore, little-known places with their history, ready-made itineraries of three to seven days and a simple way to choose the right sea for the wind.

## Hidden gems

- [Pont d'Aël](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/places/pontdael/) (Aymavilles, Aosta Valley): A Roman bridge and aqueduct hanging about fifty metres above the gorge of the Grand Eyvia stream, at the mouth of the Cogne valley, with an inner corridor you can still walk through.
- [Vineyards of Morgex and La Salle](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/places/morgex/) (Morgex, Aosta Valley): Low-pergola vineyards between 900 and 1,200 metres, at the foot of Mont Blanc: among the highest in Europe.
- [Chamois](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/places/chamois/) (Chamois, Aosta Valley): A village of chalets and meadows at 1,800 metres above the Valtournenche, with a small lake and a view of the Matterhorn, where no cars are allowed.
- [Issogne Castle](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/places/issogne/) (Issogne, Aosta Valley): A Renaissance castle-residence of the Challant family, with a courtyard centred on a wrought-iron fountain shaped like a pomegranate tree.
- [The Roman road at Donnas](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/aosta-valley/places/donnas/) (Donnas, Aosta Valley): A stretch of the Roman road to Gaul cut into the living rock, with an arch carved out of the stone and a milestone.
- [Fenestrelle Fort](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/fenestrelle/) (Fenestrelle, Piedmont): An alpine fortress that climbs the mountainside for about three kilometres, known as 'the Great Wall of Piedmont'.
- [Ivrea](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/ivrea/) (Ivrea, Piedmont): A medieval town on the Dora river with a district of modernist factories, offices, houses and nurseries, a UNESCO site as an 'industrial city of the 20th century'.
- [Ricetto di Candelo](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/candelo/) (Candelo, Piedmont): A fortified medieval village of cobbles and brick, with about two hundred small buildings lined up along lanes called rue.
- [Val Grande National Park](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/valgrande/) (Cossogno, Piedmont): The largest wilderness area in Italy, between Lake Maggiore and the Ossola valley, with dense forests, roadless valleys and ruined summer farms.
- [Vercelli and the rice fields](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/vercelli/) (Vercelli, Piedmont): The rice capital, surrounded by paddies that in spring become a 'chequered sea', with the basilica of Sant'Andrea, one of the first Gothic buildings in Italy.
- [Barolo Chapel](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/cappella/) (La Morra, Piedmont): A small chapel in the middle of the vineyards, painted in vivid colours by two contemporary artists.
- [Infernot of the Monferrato](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/infernot/) (Cella Monte, Piedmont): Small underground rooms carved by hand into the soft stone beneath the houses of the Lower Monferrato villages, used to store wine.
- [Elva](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/elva/) (Elva, Piedmont): A mountain village in an Occitan valley, with a parish church frescoed by a Flemish painter and a museum devoted to hair.
- [Sanctuary of Vicoforte](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/piedmont/places/vicoforte/) (Vicoforte, Piedmont): A Baroque sanctuary in open countryside below the hills around Mondovì, with a gigantic dome.
- [Staglieno Cemetery](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/staglieno/) (Genoa, Liguria): One of the largest monumental cemeteries in Europe, an open-air museum of 19th- and 20th-century sculpture, with galleries, stairways and a wood.
- [Tiglieto Abbey](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/tiglieto/) (Tiglieto, Liguria): A stone abbey in an inland clearing, on the banks of the Orba stream, with a medieval bridge and a large meadow.
- [Varese Ligure](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/varese/) (Varese Ligure, Liguria): A circular medieval village in the upper Vara valley, with houses arranged in a ring around a square and a castle of the Fieschi family.
- [Tellaro](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/tellaro/) (Lerici, Liguria): A tiny fishing village clinging to the rocks, with the church of San Giorgio almost in the sea.
- [Noli](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/noli/) (Noli, Liguria): A medieval village of towers and alleys facing a beach, with the Romanesque church of San Paragorio.
- [Toirano Caves](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/toirano/) (Toirano, Liguria): Caves of stalactites and stalagmites that preserve traces of prehistoric people and cave bears.
- [Bussana Vecchia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/bussana/) (Sanremo, Liguria): A ruined village on the hill above Sanremo, brought back to life by a community of artists, with shops and workshops among roofless walls.
- [Triora](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/triora/) (Triora, Liguria): A stone village at almost 800 metres in the Argentina valley, with covered alleys, carved doorways and a museum devoted to witchcraft.
- [Balzi Rossi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/liguria/places/balzi/) (Ventimiglia, Liguria): A wall of red rock above the sea, a few steps from the French border, with caves inhabited by humans for hundreds of thousands of years.
- [San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/sanmaurizio/) (Milan, Lombardy): A church with a plain exterior and an interior frescoed from floor to ceiling, a few steps from the Last Supper.
- [Leonardo's Vineyard](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/vigna/) (Milan, Lombardy): A garden hidden behind a Renaissance palazzo on Corso Magenta, with a small vineyard of ancient grapes.
- [Crespi d'Adda](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/crespi/) (Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy): An intact 19th-century workers' village, with the great cotton mill, the workers' cottages, the school, the church and the cemetery.
- [Isola Comacina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/comacina/) (Tremezzina, Lombardy): Lake Como's only island, covered in woods and the ruins of Romanesque churches, with a single inn.
- [Santa Caterina del Sasso](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/santacaterina/) (Leggiuno, Lombardy): A medieval hermitage built on a rock face plunging into Lake Maggiore, reached by a stairway or by boat.
- [Castiglione Olona](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/castiglione/) (Castiglione Olona, Lombardy): A Renaissance village in the Olona valley, with frescoes by the Tuscan painter Masolino da Panicale.
- [Rock carvings of Valcamonica](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/valcamonica/) (Capo di Ponte, Lombardy): Rocks smoothed by glaciers and covered in thousands of carved figures: hunters, warriors, houses, carts, maps and symbols.
- [Limone sul Garda](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/limone/) (Limone sul Garda, Lombardy): A village squeezed between the lake and a rock face, with its limonaie, the pillared greenhouses where citrus was grown at the northernmost point in the world.
- [Sabbioneta](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/sabbioneta/) (Sabbioneta, Lombardy): An ideal Renaissance town enclosed by star-shaped walls, with palaces, a very long gallery and one of the oldest theatres in Europe.
- [Piuro and the Acquafraggia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lombardy/places/piuro/) (Piuro, Lombardy): A valley above Chiavenna with a Renaissance palace, the ruins of a buried town and a waterfall leaping over the rocks.
- [Runkelstein Castle](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/runkelstein/) (Bolzano, Trentino-South Tyrol): A castle on a crag at the mouth of the Sarentino valley, half an hour's walk from the centre of Bolzano, its walls covered in medieval frescoes.
- [Glorenza](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/glorenza/) (Glorenza, Trentino-South Tyrol): One of the smallest towns in the Alps, with fewer than a thousand inhabitants, enclosed by intact 16th-century walls with towers and three gates.
- [The bell tower of Curon](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/curon/) (Curon Venosta, Trentino-South Tyrol): A Romanesque bell tower rising from the waters of Lake Resia, near the border with Austria and Switzerland.
- [Paneveggio Forest](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/paneveggio/) (Predazzo, Trentino-South Tyrol): A great spruce forest at the foot of the Pale di San Martino, in the Paneveggio natural park, with a deer enclosure and woodland trails.
- [Chiusa and Sabiona](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/chiusa/) (Chiusa, Trentino-South Tyrol): A village squeezed between the Isarco river and the rock, overlooked by the monastery of Sabiona, perched on a crag.
- [Arte Sella](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/artesella/) (Borgo Valsugana, Trentino-South Tyrol): A trail through the woods of the Val di Sella with works of art made of wood, stones, branches and leaves, which nature slowly transforms.
- [Lago di Tovel](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/tovel/) (Ville d'Anaunia, Trentino-South Tyrol): An alpine lake in the Adamello-Brenta park, of a crystal-clear turquoise, among woods and the walls of the Brenta Dolomites.
- [Sanctuary of San Romedio](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/trentino-south-tyrol/places/sanromedio/) (Sanzeno, Trentino-South Tyrol): A sanctuary built on a rock spur at the end of a gorge in the Non valley: five churches stacked one above the other, linked by a stairway of more than a hundred steps.
- [Torcello](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/torcello/) (Venice, Veneto): An almost deserted island in the northern lagoon, with a 7th-century basilica and a path along a canal between the fields.
- [San Lazzaro degli Armeni](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/sanlazzaro/) (Venice, Veneto): A monastery island facing San Marco, with a cloister, gardens, a library of Armenian manuscripts and a small museum.
- [Pellestrina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/pellestrina/) (Venice, Veneto): A very long, thin island between the lagoon and the sea, with fishing villages of colourful houses and a stone sea wall on the seaward side.
- [Ponte di Veja](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/veja/) (Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo, Veneto): A gigantic natural rock arch in the Lessinia mountains above Valpolicella, with caves inhabited in prehistoric times.
- [Arquà Petrarca](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/arqua/) (Arquà Petrarca, Veneto): A medieval village in the Euganean Hills where Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) spent his last years, with his house and his tomb in the square.
- [Montagnana](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/montagnana/) (Montagnana, Veneto): A town enclosed by an almost intact medieval wall about two kilometres long, with twenty-four towers and two great fortified gates.
- [Road of the 52 Tunnels](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/gallerie/) (Valli del Pasubio, Veneto): A mountain path on the Pasubio massif that runs through fifty-two tunnels carved into the rock, with dizzying views.
- [Possagno](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/possagno/) (Possagno, Veneto): Antonio Canova's birthplace, with his house, the gipsoteca of plaster models and the great neoclassical temple that dominates the village.
- [Longarone and the Vajont Dam](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/veneto/places/vajont/) (Longarone, Veneto): A towering dam, still intact, in a gorge, and below it a rebuilt town: the scene of one of Italy's greatest tragedies.
- [Karst osmize](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/osmize/) (Sgonico, Friuli Venezia Giulia): Courtyards and cellars of Karst farms that open for a few days a year, serving home-made wine, hard-boiled eggs, cured meats and cheeses.
- [Duino and the Rilke Trail](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/duino/) (Duino-Aurisina, Friuli Venezia Giulia): A castle on a white cliff dropping sheer to the sea, linked to Sistiana by a scenic path through holm oaks and karst rock.
- [San Giovanni d'Antro](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/antro/) (Pulfero, Friuli Venezia Giulia): A medieval church built at the entrance to a cave, in a rock face above the Natisone valleys, reached by a stairway.
- [Gorizia and the Transalpina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/gorizia/) (Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia): A Habsburg town of palazzi, gardens and a castle, with a square crossed by a border line.
- [Venzone](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/venzone/) (Venzone, Friuli Venezia Giulia): A medieval village with a double ring of walls and a Gothic cathedral, at the foot of the mountains along the Tagliamento.
- [Sauris](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/sauris/) (Sauris, Friuli Venezia Giulia): A village of wooden houses at 1,200 metres, above a green lake, in a valley of Carnia.
- [Pesariis](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/places/pesariis/) (Prato Carnico, Friuli Venezia Giulia): The village of clocks, in the Pesarina valley, with large mechanical and artistic clocks dotted around the streets and a museum.
- [Marzabotto and Monte Sole](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/marzabotto/) (Marzabotto, Emilia-Romagna): An Etruscan town with a grid of streets in the Reno valley and, on the hills above, the Monte Sole memorial park.
- [Rocchetta Mattei](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/rocchetta/) (Grizzana Morandi, Emilia-Romagna): A fantasy castle in the Apennine hills, with onion domes, towers and a courtyard inspired by the Alhambra in Granada.
- [Salse di Nirano](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/nirano/) (Fiorano Modenese, Emilia-Romagna): Little mud volcanoes bubbling away in a clay basin in the hills above Fiorano, in a nature reserve.
- [Canossa Castle](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/canossa/) (Canossa, Emilia-Romagna): The ruins of a castle on a white sandstone crag in the hills of Reggio Emilia, with a small museum.
- [Pietra di Bismantova](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/bismantova/) (Castelnovo ne' Monti, Emilia-Romagna): A huge ship-shaped sandstone outcrop rising alone in the Reggio Apennines, with sheer walls and a plateau on top.
- [Pomposa Abbey](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/pomposa/) (Codigoro, Emilia-Romagna): A Benedictine abbey standing alone on the delta plain, with a Romanesque bell tower almost fifty metres high and a church covered in frescoes.
- [Santarcangelo di Romagna](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/santarcangelo/) (Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna): A hilltop village with the Malatesta fortress and, beneath the houses, a network of more than a hundred caves carved into the sandstone.
- [San Leo](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/sanleo/) (San Leo, Emilia-Romagna): A village on a huge block of rock with sheer walls, dominated by a Renaissance fortress.
- [Brisighella](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/emilia-romagna/places/brisighella/) (Brisighella, Emilia-Romagna): A village at the foot of three gypsum pinnacles, with a fortress, a clock tower and a sanctuary on top, and a raised, covered medieval street.
- [Anghiari](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/anghiari/) (Anghiari, Tuscany): A compact medieval village on a hill in the Valtiberina, with walls, stone alleys and a perfectly straight road running down towards Sansepolcro.
- [Poppi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/poppi/) (Poppi, Tuscany): An arcaded village on top of a hill in the Casentino, dominated by the castle of the Guidi counts, which looks like a small-scale Palazzo Vecchio.
- [Barga](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/barga/) (Barga, Tuscany): A hillside town in the Serchio valley, with a Romanesque cathedral at the top looking out to the Apuan Alps, and the home of the poet Giovanni Pascoli close by.
- [Pontremoli](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/pontremoli/) (Pontremoli, Tuscany): The main town of the Lunigiana, Tuscany's northernmost corner, squeezed between two rivers on the Via Francigena, with the Piagnaro castle above its rooftops.
- [Sovana](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/sovana/) (Sorano, Tuscany): A single brick-paved street, a medieval square, a Romanesque cathedral at the end of the village: Sovana is a tiny village in the land of tufa.
- [Bagno Vignoni](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/bagnovignoni/) (San Quirico d'Orcia, Tuscany): A tiny village in the Val d'Orcia where instead of a square there is a large pool of steaming thermal water, surrounded by stone houses.
- [Colonnata](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/colonnata/) (Carrara, Tuscany): A quarrymen's village in the heart of the Apuan marble quarries above Carrara, famous for lardo cured in marble basins.
- [Massa Marittima](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/massamarittima/) (Massa Marittima, Tuscany): A medieval town in the Metalliferous Hills, with one of the most beautiful squares in Tuscany and the cathedral of San Cerbone at the top of a flight of steps.
- [The Balze of the Valdarno](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/balze/) (Castelfranco Piandiscò, Tuscany): Pinnacles and cliffs of sand and clay up to about a hundred metres high, sculpted by the rain between Castelfranco di Sopra, Piandiscò and Terranuova Bracciolini.
- [Larderello and the Devil's Valley](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/larderello/) (Pomarance, Tuscany): A valley in the Metalliferous Hills where steam vents burst from the ground, pools bubble and big silver pipes snake through the woods.
- [Gulf of Baratti and Populonia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/baratti/) (Piombino, Tuscany): A crescent-shaped bay with dark sand, a pine wood and Etruscan tombs a few steps from the beach, below the medieval village of Populonia.
- [San Galgano and the sword in the stone](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/sangalgano/) (Chiusdino, Tuscany): A large roofless Gothic abbey, with the sky in place of its vaults, and on the hill beside it a Romanesque rotunda with a sword thrust into the rock.
- [Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/montoliveto/) (Asciano, Tuscany): A red-brick monastery surrounded by cypresses amid the clay hills of the Crete Senesi, still home to Benedictine monks.
- [Certosa di Calci](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/calci/) (Calci, Tuscany): A huge Baroque charterhouse at the foot of Monte Pisano, a quarter of an hour from Pisa, with cloisters, monks' cells and frescoed churches.
- [Tarot Garden](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/tuscany/places/tarocchi/) (Capalbio, Tuscany): A park of gigantic sculptures covered in mirrors, glass and coloured ceramics, on the Maremma hills near Capalbio.
- [Bevagna](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/bevagna/) (Bevagna, Umbria): A village on the plain, intact within its walls, with one of the most harmonious Romanesque squares in Italy and a Roman mosaic of sea monsters in the ancient baths.
- [Città della Pieve](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/cittadellapieve/) (Città della Pieve, Umbria): A red-brick village on a hill between Lake Trasimeno and the Valdichiana, with one of the narrowest alleys in Italy, the Vicolo Baciadonne (“Kiss-the-women Lane”).
- [Underground Narni](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/narni/) (Narni, Umbria): A medieval town above the gorges of the River Nera, with the ruined Roman Bridge of Augustus and a hidden world beneath its streets.
- [Rasiglia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/rasiglia/) (Foligno, Umbria): A mountain village crossed by streams, little waterfalls and channels that run beneath the houses and past the old mills.
- [Ferentillo and the Mummy Museum](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/ferentillo/) (Ferentillo, Umbria): Two villages facing each other across the Valnerina, with rock faces loved by climbers and a very unusual crypt.
- [Isola Maggiore](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/isolamaggiore/) (Tuoro sul Trasimeno, Umbria): The only inhabited island on Lake Trasimeno: a fishing village with a single street, olive groves and a path that loops around the island.
- [Bottaccione Gorge](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/bottaccione/) (Gubbio, Umbria): A narrow limestone gorge just above Gubbio, where the layers of the mountain are exposed like the pages of a book.
- [Carsulae](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/carsulae/) (San Gemini, Umbria): The ruins of a Roman town among meadows, crossed by the original paving stones of the Via Flaminia, with the Arch of San Damiano, the forum, the theatre and the amphitheatre.
- [Abbey of San Pietro in Valle](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/sanpietro/) (Ferentillo, Umbria): A stone abbey leaning against the mountainside above the Valnerina, with a Romanesque bell tower and a cloister.
- [Clitunno Springs and Temple](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/clitunno/) (Campello sul Clitunno, Umbria): A small lake of crystal-clear spring water among willows and poplars and, a little further north along the river, a small marble temple shaped like a classical one.
- [Città di Castello and Burri](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/umbria/places/burri/) (Città di Castello, Umbria): A Renaissance town in the upper Tiber Valley with one of the largest contemporary art museums in Italy devoted to a single artist.
- [Rocca di Sassocorvaro](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/sassocorvaro/) (Sassocorvaro Auditore, Marche): A turtle-shaped Renaissance fortress designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, above a lake in the Montefeltro.
- [Urbania and the Chiesa dei Morti](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/urbania/) (Urbania, Marche): A town on the Metauro, once the summer residence of the dukes of Urbino, with a small church that holds eighteen mummies.
- [Furlo Gorge](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/furlo/) (Acqualagna, Marche): A narrow gorge between rock walls, crossed by the Candigliano river and the ancient Via Flaminia, in a nature reserve with golden eagles.
- [Gilded bronzes of Pergola](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/pergola/) (Pergola, Marche): A museum in an inland town that holds the only gilded bronze equestrian group from Roman antiquity to have survived.
- [Fabriano](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/fabriano/) (Fabriano, Marche): The city of paper, with a museum where you can watch sheets being made by hand, as in the Middle Ages.
- [Jesi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/jesi/) (Jesi, Marche): A town enclosed by medieval walls above the Esino valley, surrounded by Verdicchio vineyards.
- [Lago di Pilato](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/pilato/) (Montemonaco, Marche): A small glacial lake at almost two thousand metres, in a hollow below the summit of the Vettore, which in summer splits into two pools shaped like a pair of spectacles.
- [Montemonaco and the Sibyl's Cave](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/montemonaco/) (Montemonaco, Marche): A mountain village at the foot of Monte Sibilla, named after the cave of the legendary prophetess who, tradition says, lived inside the mountain.
- [Fermo and the Roman cisterns](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/marche/places/fermo/) (Fermo, Marche): A hilltop town overlooking the sea, with a large arcaded square and, beneath the houses, a huge Roman reservoir.
- [Quartiere Coppedè](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/coppede/) (Rome, Lazio): A small fairy-tale enclave in the Trieste district, with turreted villas, mosaics, wrought-iron spiders and great arches.
- [Centrale Montemartini](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/montemartini/) (Rome, Lazio): A museum where Roman statues and mosaics are displayed among the boilers, turbines and diesel engines of an old power station.
- [Non-Catholic Cemetery](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/acattolico/) (Rome, Lazio): A garden of cypresses and tombs at the foot of the Pyramid of Cestius, where foreigners and non-Catholics who died in Rome are buried.
- [Sutri](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/sutri/) (Sutri, Lazio): A village on the Via Francigena with a Roman amphitheatre carved entirely out of the tufa and a church created inside an Etruscan tomb.
- [Calcata](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/calcata/) (Calcata, Lazio): A medieval village on a tufa crag in the Treja valley, home to artists, with workshops, galleries and small restaurants.
- [Nemi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/nemi/) (Nemi, Lazio): A village on the rim of a small volcanic lake, famous for its wild strawberries and the Museum of the Roman Ships.
- [Alatri](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/alatri/) (Alatri, Lazio): A town ringed by cyclopean walls of huge polygonal blocks, with one of the best-preserved acropolises in Italy.
- [Garden of Ninfa](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/ninfa/) (Cisterna di Latina, Lazio): A romantic garden among the ruins of a medieval town, crossed by a crystal-clear river, with climbing roses on the walls and plants from all over the world.
- [Ventotene and Santo Stefano](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/lazio/places/ventotene/) (Ventotene, Lazio): A small volcanic island with a Roman harbour carved out of the tufa, and opposite it the islet of Santo Stefano with its Bourbon prison.
- [Santo Stefano di Sessanio](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/sessanio/) (Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo): A medieval village of white stone on the slopes of the Gran Sasso, almost abandoned until a few decades ago and now reborn.
- [Oratory of San Pellegrino at Bominaco](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/bominaco/) (Caporciano, Abruzzo): A small stone church in a village on the plateau, its interior entirely covered in medieval frescoes.
- [Navelli and saffron](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/navelli/) (Navelli, Abruzzo): A terraced village on a hill above a plain planted with saffron, which turns purple with flowers in autumn.
- [Tunnels of Claudius](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/cunicoli/) (Capistrello, Abruzzo): The tunnels and shafts dug by the Romans through the mountain to drain Lake Fucino, in an archaeological park.
- [Hermitages of the Majella](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/eremi/) (Roccamorice, Abruzzo): Medieval hermitages carved into the rock faces of the Majella, such as San Bartolomeo in Legio, reached by a path that ends on a stairway cut into the rock.
- [Warrior of Capestrano](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/capestrano/) (Chieti, Abruzzo): A stone statue more than two metres tall of an Italic warrior, with a large disc-shaped headdress, kept in the archaeological museum in Chieti.
- [Civitella del Tronto Fortress](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/abruzzo/places/civitella/) (Civitella del Tronto, Abruzzo): A fortress more than five hundred metres long on a rocky ridge, above a village of narrow lanes, with views of the Laga mountains and the sea.
- [Acquaviva Collecroce](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/acquaviva/) (Acquaviva Collecroce, Molise): A small hill village where the road signs are written in Italian and Croatian.
- [Isernia La Pineta](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/isernia/) (Isernia, Molise): One of the most important Palaeolithic sites in Europe, on the edge of Isernia, with a museum built over the excavation.
- [San Vincenzo al Volturno](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/sanvincenzo/) (Castel San Vincenzo, Molise): The ruins of a great medieval abbey at the source of the Volturno, with a crypt frescoed in the 9th century.
- [Scapoli](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/scapoli/) (Scapoli, Molise): A stone village in the Mainarde mountains, Italy's capital of the zampogna bagpipe, with an international museum devoted to the instrument.
- [Agnone and its bells](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/agnone/) (Agnone, Molise): A village in upper Molise, with churches and coppersmiths' workshops, where bells have been cast for seven hundred years.
- [Capracotta](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/molise/places/capracotta/) (Capracotta, Molise): One of the highest villages in the Apennines, at over 1,400 metres, surrounded by beech forests and cross-country ski trails.
- [Fontanelle Cemetery](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/fontanelle/) (Naples, Campania): A huge tufa quarry in the Sanità district where the bones of thousands of nameless Neapolitans are gathered in neat rows.
- [Grotta di Seiano and Pausilypon](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/pausilypon/) (Naples, Campania): A Roman tunnel about 770 metres long dug through the Posillipo hill, which comes out onto the ruins of a villa overlooking the sea and the islet of Gaiola.
- [Piscina Mirabilis](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/piscina/) (Bacoli, Campania): An underground cathedral: a Roman cistern from the age of Augustus, about 70 metres long and 15 high, supported by 48 pillars.
- [San Leucio](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/sanleucio/) (Caserta, Campania): An 18th-century workers' village on the hill above Caserta, built around a royal silk works, with the Belvedere and the silk museum.
- [Sant'Agata de' Goti](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/santagata/) (Sant'Agata de' Goti, Campania): A village built on the edge of a tufa spur, its houses continuing the rock face that drops sheer to two streams.
- [Conza vecchia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/conza/) (Conza della Campania, Campania): The ruins of the village destroyed by the Irpinia earthquake, turned into an archaeological park on a hill above a lake.
- [Valle delle Ferriere](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/ferriere/) (Scala, Campania): A lush green valley behind Amalfi, with waterfalls, streams and the ruins of old paper mills and ironworks among lemon and chestnut trees.
- [Fiordo di Furore](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/furore/) (Furore, Campania): A cleft in the rock where the Schiato stream meets the sea, with a small beach, fishermen's houses and a bridge about thirty metres high.
- [Baia di Ieranto](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/ieranto/) (Massa Lubrense, Campania): A wild bay at the tip of the Sorrento peninsula, facing the Faraglioni of Capri, reachable only on foot or from the sea.
- [Roscigno Vecchia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/roscigno/) (Roscigno, Campania): An abandoned village in the heart of the Cilento, with its square, fountain, church and farmhouses just as they were a hundred years ago.
- [Bussento Caves](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/campania/places/bussento/) (Morigerati, Campania): A WWF reserve in a gorge where the Bussento river emerges from a cave, among small waterfalls, mills and a woodland path.
- [Altamura and Altamura Man](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/altamura/) (Altamura, Puglia): The town of DOP bread, with a cathedral commissioned by Frederick II, in the heart of the Murgia; a few kilometres away a cave holds a prehistoric skeleton.
- [Lucera](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/lucera/) (Lucera, Puglia): A town in the Monti Dauni with a Roman amphitheatre, a Gothic cathedral and a huge Swabian and Angevin fortress on the hill.
- [Galatina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/galatina/) (Galatina, Puglia): A Baroque town in the inland Salento, with a Gothic basilica covered entirely in frescoes, Santa Caterina d'Alessandria.
- [Acaya](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/acaya/) (Vernole, Puglia): A small fortified village between Lecce and the sea, with walls, a castle and streets laid out at right angles.
- [Margherita di Savoia salt pans](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/saline/) (Margherita di Savoia, Puglia): The largest salt pans in Italy: pools of pink and white water stretching for kilometres between the sea and the countryside, home to flamingos and other birds.
- [Egnazia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/egnazia/) (Fasano, Puglia): The ruins of a Messapian and Roman city right on the sea, crossed by the Via Traiana, with the acropolis on the headland and an archaeological museum.
- [Canne della Battaglia (Cannae)](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/canne/) (Barletta, Puglia): A hill above the Ofanto river with the remains of a medieval town and a small museum, on the site of one of the most famous battles in history.
- [Basilica of Siponto](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/siponto/) (Manfredonia, Puglia): Next to a Romanesque church, the outline of a vanished early Christian basilica, rebuilt full size in wire mesh.
- [Punta Palascìa lighthouse](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/palascia/) (Otranto, Puglia): A white lighthouse on a wild cliff south of Otranto, at the easternmost point of the Italian peninsula.
- [Porto Selvaggio](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/puglia/places/portoselvaggio/) (Nardò, Puglia): A bay of rocks and crystal-clear water at the bottom of a pine wood, inside a nature park, reachable only on foot.
- [Crypt of Original Sin](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/peccato/) (Matera, Basilicata): A cave in a wall of the Picciano ravine, its walls covered in early medieval frescoes whose colours are still vivid.
- [Irsina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/irsina/) (Irsina, Basilicata): A village on a hill among the wheat fields of the Matera hills, with a cathedral that holds an unexpected masterpiece.
- [Craco](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/craco/) (Craco, Basilicata): A ghost town on a clay hill, dominated by a Norman tower, among the badlands of the Cavone valley.
- [Aliano](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/aliano/) (Aliano, Basilicata): A village overlooking the calanchi, a lunar landscape of clay carved by water, which is also a literary park.
- [Tursi and the Rabatana](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/tursi/) (Tursi, Basilicata): Tursi's oldest quarter, the Rabatana, climbs a spur between two ravines, with stone houses and alleys.
- [Valsinni](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/valsinni/) (Valsinni, Basilicata): A medieval village below a castle, above the Sinni river, bound up with the story of the poet Isabella Morra.
- [Ponte alla Luna](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/basilicata/places/pontelaluna/) (Sasso di Castalda, Basilicata): A Tibetan bridge about three hundred metres long, hanging in the void above a canyon near the village of Sasso di Castalda.
- [Pentedattilo](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/pentedattilo/) (Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria): An abandoned village clinging to a rock shaped like a hand with five fingers, in the hinterland of Aspromonte.
- [Bova](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/bova/) (Bova, Calabria): A village at nine hundred metres on Aspromonte, capital of the Greek-speaking area, with bilingual road signs and a steam locomotive in the square.
- [Pietra Cappa](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/pietracappa/) (San Luca, Calabria): A rock monolith more than a hundred metres high rising out of the forests of Aspromonte, in the Valley of the Great Stones.
- [Cattolica of Stilo](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/stilo/) (Stilo, Calabria): A tiny Byzantine brick church with five domes, set on the side of Monte Consolino above the village of Stilo.
- [Badolato](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/badolato/) (Badolato, Calabria): A medieval village perched on a hill a few kilometres from the Ionian Sea, with churches, alleys and stone houses.
- [Cosenza](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/cosenza/) (Cosenza, Calabria): An ancient city at the confluence of the Crati and the Busento, with a hilly old town, the cathedral and an open-air sculpture museum along the main street.
- [The Giants of the Sila](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/sila/) (Spezzano della Sila, Calabria): A reserve with around sixty gigantic Calabrian pines and maples, up to forty-five metres tall, in the heart of the Sila plateau.
- [Rossano and the Codex Purpureus](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/rossano/) (Corigliano-Rossano, Calabria): A Byzantine town in the hills above the Ionian, with Greek churches and monasteries and a treasure kept in the diocesan museum.
- [Civita](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/calabria/places/civita/) (Civita, Calabria): An Arbëreshë village overlooking the Raganello gorge, with the Kodra houses whose façades look like faces and the Devil's Bridge over the canyon.
- [Castelbuono](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/castelbuono/) (Castelbuono, Sicily): A Madonie town gathered around the castle of the Ventimiglia family, among chestnut and ash woods, half an hour from Cefalù.
- [Sperlinga](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/sperlinga/) (Sperlinga, Sicily): An inland village at the foot of a sandstone spur, with a castle partly carved into the rock and dozens of caves used as homes.
- [Savoca](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/savoca/) (Savoca, Sicily): A medieval village perched on the hills above the Ionian coast, half an hour from Taormina, with churches, the ruins of a castle and quiet lanes.
- [Cave di Cusa](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/cusa/) (Campobello di Mazara, Sicily): A Greek stone quarry among olive trees and fields, with huge column drums left half-finished, still attached to the rock or abandoned along the road.
- [Mozia](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/mozia/) (Marsala, Sicily): A small island in the Stagnone lagoon, opposite the Marsala salt pans, with the ruins of a Phoenician city and a museum.
- [Cretto di Burri](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/cretto/) (Gibellina, Sicily): An immense flow of white concrete on the side of a hill, cut by fissures you can walk through: it is one of the largest works of land art in the world.
- [Necropolis of Pantalica](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/pantalica/) (Sortino, Sicily): A limestone canyon carved by the Anapo and Calcinara rivers, its walls pierced by thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs, in the heart of the Hyblaean mountains.
- [Grotta Mangiapane](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sicily/places/mangiapane/) (Custonaci, Sicily): An entire rural hamlet built inside a gigantic cave on Monte Cofano, with houses, courtyards, an oven and a little paved street.
- [Santu Lussurgiu](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/santulussurgiu/) (Santu Lussurgiu, Sardinia): A stone village inside the crater of an ancient volcano, among woods and springs.
- [Carloforte](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/carloforte/) (Carloforte, Sardinia): On the island of San Pietro people speak Tabarchino, a Ligurian dialect brought by coral fishermen long ago.
- [Sant'Antioco](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/santantioco/) (Sant'Antioco, Sardinia): An island linked by an isthmus, with catacombs, a Phoenician necropolis and a museum devoted to byssus, the sea silk spun from the noble pen shell.
- [Gavoi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/gavoi/) (Gavoi, Sardinia): Granite houses, Lake Gusana and fiore sardo, the shepherds' traditional pecorino.
- [Ulassai](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/ulassai/) (Ulassai, Sardinia): A village beneath limestone «tacchi», with the Su Marmuri cave and the works of Maria Lai, who tied the whole village together with a sky-blue ribbon.
- [Giara di Gesturi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/giara/) (Gesturi, Sardinia): A basalt plateau that is home to the Giara horses, small wild horses.
- [Sacred Well of Santa Cristina](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/santacristina/) (Paulilatino, Sardinia): A perfect stone staircase descends to the water inside a nuragic well.
- [Tiscali village](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/tiscali/) (Dorgali, Sardinia): A nuragic village hidden inside a collapsed sinkhole at the top of a mountain in the Supramonte.
- [Altar of Monte d'Accoddi](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/accoddi/) (Sassari, Sardinia): A stepped altar more than five thousand years old, unique in the Mediterranean: it recalls the ziggurats of Mesopotamia.
- [Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/italy/sardinia/places/anghelu/) (Alghero, Sardinia): Dozens of «domus de janas», the fairies' houses: tombs carved into the rock, with carvings in the shape of bull's horns.

## Full text

- [llms-full.txt](https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/en/llms-full.txt): all the guides in plain text
- Italian version: https://viaggi.alexfreenet.com/llms.txt