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Ragusa, Sicily
Ragusa, Sicily: provincial capital and UNESCO Val di Noto Baroque town, split into Ragusa Ibla and Ragusa Superiore after the 1693 earthquake; 73,736 inhabitants, Gagliardi's San Giorgio.
Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria, ancient Rhegion, is a strait-side Italian city of about 168,000, capital of its metropolitan city, home of the Riace Bronzes, and largely rebuilt after the catastrophic 1908 earthquake.
Rome
Rome (Roma), capital of Italy and its largest municipality, on the Tiber; contains Vatican City. UNESCO historic centre, record 22.9 million tourist arrivals in 2025, Jubilee infrastructure spending, and heavy traffic congestion.
Salerno
Salerno (Salernum), Campania city on the Gulf of Salerno, Italy. Roman colony, Lombard principality capital from 849, seat of Europe's oldest medical school, Norman capital under Guiscard, and capital of Italy February–July 1944.
San Gimignano
San Gimignano is a walled medieval hill town in Tuscany, 56 km south of Florence, famous for its surviving towers (14 of about 72), Via Francigena role, 1990 UNESCO listing, and Vernaccia DOCG wine.
Sassari
Sassari (Tathari) is Sardinia's second city, provincial capital in northwest Sardinia, 120,497 residents in 2024, 547 km², 225 m altitude, home to the island's first university (1617), mayor Giuseppe Mascia since 2024.
Scarlino
Scarlino is a hilltop comune in the Province of Grosseto, southern Tuscany, on the Gulf of Follonica. First recorded in 973 as an Aldobrandeschi curtis, later Pisan and Appiani; notable for Rocca Pisana excavations and the Vetricella site.
Sciacca
Sciacca (ash-Shāqqah) is a fishing port and spa town in the province of Agrigento on Sicily's southwestern coast, founded as a thermal dependency of Selinunte, known for Monte Kronio's sulfur springs, coral, ceramics, and its old carnival.
Siena
Siena, known in Roman times as Saena or Sena Iulia, is a Tuscan city in central Italy whose medieval historic center became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Sorrento
Sorrento (Latin Surrentum), a town of about 16,500 on the Sorrentine Peninsula in the province of Naples, Italy, perched 50 m above the sea; a tourism center, ancient duchy, birthplace of Torquato Tasso, and home of the Limone di Sorrento IGP lemon and limoncello.
Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse (Siracusa), southeastern Sicily: Greek colony founded by Corinthians in 734 BC, Cicero's 'greatest Greek city', Byzantine capital under Constans II, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005 with Pantalica.
Taormina
Taormina (Tauromenion) is a hill town on Monte Tauro in Messina province, Sicily, founded in 358 BC by Naxos exiles, famed for its Greek-Roman Ancient Theatre, Arab-Norman castle, Grand Tour heritage, and role as Sicily's leading international tourist resort.
Taranto
Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), Apulia, southern Italy: Spartan colony founded 706 BC between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo; naval port, major steelworks (ex-ILVA), mussel farming, and contested industrial pollution record.
Terni
Terni (Interamna Nahars) is an Umbrian city on the Nera river, founded per tradition in 672 BC, home to the 165 m Marmore Falls and Italy's steel industry since 1884; population about 106,000.
Trapani
Trapani, Sicilian coastal city and provincial capital on Sicily's western tip (Greek Drepanon, sickle-shaped promontory); 65,841 inhabitants (2020); province of 24 comuni with Italy's largest vineyard area, Marsala wine, salt pans, Egadi and Pantelleria; ranks 97th of 107 provinces for quality of life.
Urbino
Urbino, hill city in Italy's Marche region, Renaissance ducal seat of Federico da Montefeltro, birthplace of Raphael, UNESCO World Heritage historic center inscribed 1998 under criteria (ii) and (iv).
Ussana
Ussana is a comune in South Sardinia with Neolithic and Nuragic remains, a 4th-century Roman bath complex at San Lorenzo reused as a church foundation, Giudicato and feudal history, and autonomy since 1839.
Vasto
Vasto (ancient Histonium) is a coastal town of about 40,600 in Chieti province, Abruzzo, on the Golden Gulf; Roman municipium, D'Avalos seat, home to Punta Aderci reserve and the Costa dei Trabocchi.
Volterra
Volterra (Etruscan Velathri, Roman Volaterrae) is a 545 m hill town in Pisa province, Tuscany: an Etruscan dodecapolis city, Roman municipium, medieval commune, annexed by Florence in 1472, known for Etruscan walls, Roman theatre, Guarnacci Museum, and alabaster carving.