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Agrigento
Agrigento (Girgenti; ancient Akragas, Agrigentum), Sicilian city founded around 580 BC by Gela colonists; its Valley of the Temples Doric temples became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and the city was Italian Capital of Culture 2025.
Alberobello
Alberobello, Puglia town inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 as The Trulli of Alberobello (trulli), known for over 1,500 mortarless corbelled limestone dwellings with conical roofs in Rione Monti and Aia Piccola.
Amalfi
Amalfi is a town in Salerno province, Campania, Italy, namesake of the Costiera Amalfitana UNESCO World Heritage site (1997, criteria ii, iv, v) and center of the medieval Amalfi Sea Republic.
Ancona
Ancona is a port city on the Adriatic in the Marche region, capital of its province. Known as Ankon to Greek colonists, it leads Ro/Pax ferry traffic to Greece and is a TEN-T core port.
Andria
Andria (Àndrie/Jàndrie) is a city of about 100,000 in Puglia, Italy, capital with Barletta and Trani of the Barletta-Andria-Trani province; home to Frederick II's UNESCO Castel del Monte, burrata, and confetti.
Arezzo
Arezzo (Arretium) is a hill city in eastern Tuscany, Italy, provincial capital with about 98,000 residents. An Etruscan dodecapolis member and Roman municipium, conquered by Florence in 1384; home of Piero della Francesca's True Cross frescoes and Cimabue's crucifix.
Assisi
Assisi, Umbrian hill town in Perugia province, Italy; birthplace of Saint Francis and UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000. Key facts: Roman municipium 89 BCE, 1997 Basilica earthquake, 1.7 million tourists in 2025, 2026 relic ostension.
Bari
Bari, capital of Puglia on Italy's Adriatic coast, is the region's largest city (315,284 inhabitants, ISTAT 2020) and third of southern Italy, a major Adriatic port, home of the Basilica of San Nicola, and site of an ongoing PNRR-funded BRT and urban renewal program.
Barletta
Barletta, Adriatic city in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Puglia, Italy, between Foggia and Bari; known for the Colossus bronze statue, Castello Svevo, Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral, and the 1503 Disfida.
Benevento
Benevento (ancient Beneventum, once Malventum) is a city in inland Campania, Italy: Roman colony from 268 BC, capital of the Lombard duchy from 571, home of the Arch of Trajan and UNESCO-listed Santa Sofia.
Brindisi
Brindisi, known in Latin as Brundisium, is a port city in the Puglia region of southern Italy on the Adriatic coast, the historic terminus of the Via Appia.
Cagliari
Cagliari (Casteddu; Latin Carales) is the capital of Sardinia, Italy, founded by the Phoenicians and later a Roman municipium; its municipality had 148,022 residents in 2025, with a metropolitan area of about half a million.
Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (Qalat-an-Nisa, "castle of the women") is a Sicilian provincial capital at 568 m in the Salso basin, a former sulphur-mining hub with about 58,000 residents and Moncada-era monuments.
Carrara
Carrara, Tuscany, Italy: the marble city of the Apuan Riviera, quarried since Roman times, home of Michelangelo's favored white marble, the Civic Marble Museum, Colonnata lard, and Italy's leading worked-marble export district.
Casalbore
Casalbore is a hilltop town of about 1,800 people in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy, in the Miscano valley, known for its Norman Tower and the Italic temple of Macchia Porcara dedicated to Mefite.
Caserta
Caserta, city in Campania, Italy, capital of the Province of Caserta, about 60,000 inhabitants; grew around the 18th-century Royal Palace of Charles of Bourbon, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Casoria
Casoria, comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy; about 73,257 residents (2026) on 12.10 km²; former casale of Naples, dense Neapolitan suburb with declining population.
Cassino
Cassino (formerly San Germano) is a town of about 35,000 in Frosinone, Lazio, at the foot of Montecassino Abbey, razed in the 1944 battles, home to Roman ruins, the Casinum archaeological park, and a Stellantis car plant.
Castel Gandolfo
Castel Gandolfo, town in the Alban Hills about 25 km from Rome, site of the popes' summer residence since Urban VIII in 1626; 55-hectare extraterritorial estate with Apostolic Palace, gardens, and Vatican Observatory, revived by Leo XIV in 2025.
Catania
Catania, eastern Sicily's largest city at the foot of Mount Etna, was destroyed by the 1693 earthquake and rebuilt on a geometric Baroque plan; its center is part of the UNESCO Val di Noto site.
Catanzaro
Catanzaro, capital of the province of Catanzaro and of Calabria, Italy; hill town 10 km from the Ionian coast, 82,708 residents (2026), historic silk trade, 1783 earthquake zone.
Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia, ancient Centumcellae, is a Lazio port city 70 km north of Rome, founded by Trajan around 107 AD with a port designed by Apollodorus of Damascus; today a major cruise and ferry port.
Corleone
Corleone is a hill town of about 10,000 people at 542 m in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. Known for the Godfather name, the Corleonesi mafia clan, the CIDMA anti-mafia museum, and its 'hundred churches' heritage.
Crotone
Crotone (ancient Kroton) is a Calabrian provincial capital in southern Italy, founded by Achaean Greeks in the late 8th century BC, home of Pythagoras's school, victor over Sybaris in 510 BC, and site of the Heraion of Capo Colonna.
Enna
Enna, called Castrogiovanni until 1927, is a hill city in central Sicily and capital of its landlocked province, at about 931 m elevation, famed for the cult of Demeter and a sulfur-mining past.
Esterzili
Esterzili, a village of about 650 inhabitants at 700 m on Mount Santa Vittoria in Barbagia di Seulo, Sardinia; home of the Domu de Orgia megaron temple and the Roman Tavola di Esterzili bronze.
Fano
Fano (Fanum Fortunae) is an Adriatic town in Marche, Italy, 12 km south of Pesaro; Roman colony Colonia Julia Fanestris with the Arch of Augustus (AD 9), the 2026-confirmed basilica of Vitruvius, beaches, and Italy's oldest Carnival.
Fiesole
Fiesole (Faesulae): hill town and comune above Florence in Tuscany, 42.19 km², 13,876 inhabitants (2022). Ancient Etruscan settlement with Roman theatre, baths, temple, archaeological museum founded 1878, and the Estate Fiesolana festival.
Fiumicino
Fiumicino, coastal comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, at the Tiber mouth; also called Fiumicino-Isola Sacra. Seat of Leonardo da Vinci airport (FCO), Rome's long-haul hub, and of the ancient port of Portus; 83,415 residents (2026).
Florence
Florence (Firenze), capital of Tuscany, Italy: Renaissance-era city of about 362,000 residents, UNESCO-listed historic centre inscribed 1982, known for the Duomo, Uffizi, Medici history, and overtourism management.