All Italian Villages
Authentic villages, off the beaten track. Browse the full archive and use search to jump straight to the right destination.
532 villages found
Gazzola
What to see in Gazzola, a Piacenza hill village at 146 m with 2,050 residents. Explore Rivalta Castle, the Luretta valley and Colli Piacentini DOC wines. Plan your visit.
Genova
What to see in Genova: city at 18 m above sea level with UNESCO Rolli palaces and Europe's largest aquarium. Plan your visit with our full guide.
Gessopalena
In 1943, retreating German troops dynamited the entire historic core of Gessopalena, reducing to rubble a settlement that for centuries had exploited the geological peculiarity of its terrain: gypsum. That whitish mineral, quarried and worked since Roman times, had given the village its name and shaped its houses, its walls, even the foundations of its […]
Giano Vetusto
What to see in Giano Vetusto: Church of Sant'Antonio, historic centre, agricultural landscape, local cuisine and how to reach this hillside village near Caserta.
Gioia dei Marsi
Gioia dei Marsi has a population of 2,091 and sits at 725 metres above sea level on the eastern edge of the Fucino, the plain that until 1875 was the largest lake in peninsular Italy. The draining of the lake radically transformed the economy and landscape of this Marsican settlement, shifting its centre of gravity […]
Gioia del Colle
What to see in Gioia del Colle: hilltop town at 362m on the Murgia. Explore the Swabian castle, Monte Sannace park, Primitivo DOC wines and local PAT dishes.
Giovinazzo
The walls of Giovinazzo’s old port form an irregular semicircle jutting out into the Adriatic Sea, visible from the SS16 state road that runs along the Bari coastline. This small city of 19,366 inhabitants, sitting at just 7 metres above sea level, retains a compact medieval historic centre, still partly surrounded by the original city […]
Giulianova
In 1470, Duke Giuliantonio Acquaviva refounded the ancient settlement of Castel San Flaviano on a hill 68 metres above sea level, giving it his own name: Giulianova. The urban layout he commissioned — a regular grid with a central square and symmetrical blocks — is one of the earliest documented examples of an ideal Renaissance […]
Goriano Sicoli
At 720 metres above sea level, in the Valle Subequana along the course of the Aterno river, Goriano Sicoli has just 511 inhabitants today — less than a fifth of the population recorded in the 1901 census. The village, in the province of L’Aquila, owes the second part of its name to the Roman colony […]
Gorreto
Gorreto: Complete Editorial Guide The stone bridge over the Trebbia, with its centuries-old arches, marks the entrance to Gorreto, a village that reveals itself with the discretion of a place that has watched the passage of people and goods for centuries. At 533 metres above sea level, in the province of Genova, this settlement of […]