All Italian Villages
Authentic villages, off the beaten track. Browse the full archive and use search to jump straight to the right destination.
526 villages found
Badia
Badia has 3,396 inhabitants spread across six hamlets — San Leonardo, Pedraces, La Villa, San Cassiano, La Val and Antermoia — and occupies a stretch of the Val Badia where Ladin is the mother tongue for over ninety per cent of the population. Understanding what to see in Badia means entering a Dolomite valley where […]
Bagnaria Arsa
In 1420, when the Venetian Republic extended its dominion over Friuli, the territory of Bagnaria Arsa came firmly into the Venetian orbit: the Republic’s cadastral records document a rural settlement structured around two distinct centres — Bagnaria and Sevegliano — separated by fields planted with cereals and crossed by drainage channels. Today, anyone wondering what […]
Bagnone
Morning mist lifts off the Bagnone creek and thins against stone walls that have stood since the eleventh century. The sound of water — always water — fills the narrow lanes, running beneath bridges and alongside houses built directly into the rock. With fewer than two thousand residents, this small settlement in the Massa e […]
Bairo
The earliest confirmed record of Bairo dates to a document from 1003, when Marquess Arduino of Ivrea — who would shortly become King of Italy — confirmed landholdings in this portion of the Canavese between the moraine ridge and the foothills of the Graian Alps. Today the municipality has 806 inhabitants, spread across the historic […]
Balestrino
In 1963 a landslide forced the evacuation of the upper part of Balestrino, leaving the old village uninhabited and intact in its sixteenth- and seventeenth-century structure. Today the municipality has 530 residents, spread between the modern settlement in the valley below and the hillside hamlets, at 371 metres above sea level on the ridge separating […]
Balsorano
The Val Roveto divides southern Abruzzo from Lazio along a fault line that has determined earthquakes, migrations and feudal borders for over seven centuries. Balsorano occupies the valley floor and the hillside at 340 metres above sea level, with its 3,617 inhabitants spread between the upper historic centre — Balsorano Vecchio — and the modern […]
Balvano
Balvano, a municipality in the province of Potenza, rises 425 meters above sea level, fitting into the hilly landscape of Basilicata. This altitude is not just a number, but the coordinate of a natural observatory from which the Platano valley can be viewed. With a population of 1,722 inhabitants, the village maintains the size of […]
Banari
Morning light catches the limestone facades along Via Roma, turning them the colour of raw honey. A rooster calls from behind a courtyard wall. Somewhere below, the Meilogu plain stretches north toward Sassari, its patchwork of olive groves and grain fields still holding the night’s mist. Banari — population 516, perched at 419 metres above […]
Banzi
In 1956, during archaeological excavations in the area of ancient Bantia, the “Bantine Table” was discovered, a bronze tablet inscribed in the Oscan language, providing direct evidence of the legislation of this Italic community from the 4th-3rd century BC. For those wondering **what to see in banzi** today, the village, located at 571 meters above […]
Baranello
A documentary guide to Baranello in Molise — its civic museum, medieval churches, castle, and the quiet rhythms of an overlooked Italian hill village.