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Alessandria
Alessandria is a Piedmontese city in northwest Italy, officially founded 3 May 1168 and named for Pope Alexander III. Third Piedmont municipality by population (~91,000) and first by area, at the Tanaro-Bormida confluence, with the 1728 Cittadella fortress and heavy flood exposure.
Algund
Algund (Lagundo) is a municipality in the Burggrafenamt district of South Tyrol, northern Italy, immediately northwest of Merano; fruit farming, tourism, and the Forst brewery sustain it.
Aosta
Aosta (Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; French Aoste) is the capital of Italy's Valle d'Aosta, a Roman colony founded 25 BC after Augustus defeated the Salassi. Its walls, Arch of Augustus, Porta Praetoria, theatre, amphitheatre, and cryptoporticus survive, earning it the nickname little Rome of the Alps.
Asiago
Asiago (Slegar) is a town at 1,001 m in Vicenza province, Veneto, capital of the Seven Communes plateau; destroyed in WWI, rebuilt, home of the Asiago Military Memorial and PDO Asiago cheese.
Asti
Asti (Hasta), Piedmont city and provincial capital on the Tanaro; Roman municipium, medieval banking power, Gothic cathedral 1309–1354, Torre Rossa, Barbera wine center, 73,495 inhabitants.
Bassano del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa is a Veneto town in the province of Vicenza at the foot of Monte Grappa, crossed by the Brenta and known for the covered wooden Ponte degli Alpini (Ponte Vecchio), Palladio's 1569 design, grappa distilleries, and DOP white asparagus.
Bellagio, Lombardy
Bellagio, Lombardy: the 'pearl of Lake Como', a resort town on the promontory between the lake's two southern arms, with Villa Serbelloni, Villa Melzi, the 12th-century San Giacomo basilica, and ferry links to Varenna and Menaggio.
Bergamo
Bergamo (Bèrghem), Lombardy city and provincial capital in northern Italy, known for its walled Città Alta, UNESCO-listed Venetian Walls (2017), 119,381 residents, major Milan Bergamo Airport, and first place in Il Sole 24 Ore's 2024 quality-of-life ranking.
Bologna
Bologna, Italian city, capital of Emilia-Romagna; called Felsina by the Etruscans and Bononia under Rome; seat of the University of Bologna (1088) and of 62 km of UNESCO-listed porticoes.
Bolzano
Bolzano (Bozen) is the capital of South Tyrol in the Italian Alps, at 262 m in the Adige Valley. Founded as Roman Pons Drusi, annexed to Italy in 1919, it is a bilingual city of about 107,000 with Italian the majority language and strong tourism.
Brescia
Brescia (Latin Brixia) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, capital of its province, with about 200,000 inhabitants. Known for Roman Brixia, the UNESCO Longobard San Salvatore–Santa Giulia site, the 1849 Ten Days, its 2013 metro, and lakes Garda, Iseo, and Idro.
Brixen
Brixen (Bressanone) is a South Tyrol town at the Isarco-Rienza confluence, seat of a prince-bishopric from 1027, with a Baroque cathedral (1758), Hofburg, Widmann bridge (1882), and tourism on Mount Plose.
Busto Arsizio
Busto Arsizio, Lombardy city in Varese province, Italy; about 85,000 residents, largest in its province. Historic cotton center nicknamed the Manchester of Italy, home to the Textile Museum, far cheaper than nearby Milan.
Campione d'Italia
Campione d'Italia is an Italian commune in the Province of Como that forms an exclave entirely surrounded by Swiss territory on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano, known for its casino designed by Mario Botta.
Carpi (city)
Carpi, a town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, at 26 m elevation in the Po Valley; seat of the Pio signoria from the 14th century to the 1520s, later under the Este, with the Palazzo dei Pio and one of Italy's widest squares.
Cesena
Cesena is a town of about 95,000 people in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, on the Savio river between Forlì and Rimini, best known for its Malatesta monuments.
Cinisello Balsamo
Cinisello Balsamo, town in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy; formed 1928 by merging Cinisello and Balsamo; about 74,700 inhabitants, Villa Ghirlanda Silva, Parco Nord Milano, M1 and planned M5 metro service.
Como
Como, city at the southern tip of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy; provincial capital and historic "City of Silk" with a 16th-century silk industry, UNESCO Creative City status, and the Duomo begun in 1396.
Cremona
Cremona is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, and provincial capital. It is known worldwide for its historic violin making tradition and the Torrazzo, Europe's tallest brick tower.
Ferrara
Ferrara, Italian city in Emilia-Romagna and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995, extended 1999 with the Po Delta), Este-ruled Renaissance capital whose 1492 Addizione Erculea by Biagio Rossetti pioneered modern town planning.
Forlì
Forlì is a city in Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena in Emilia-Romagna with about 118,000 inhabitants, on the Via Emilia where it crosses the Montone river.
Genoa
Genoa (Genova, Zena) is the capital of Liguria, Italy, a Mediterranean port city and former capital of the Republic of Genoa; home of the Banco di San Giorgio (1407) and the UNESCO-listed Strade Nuove and Palazzi dei Rolli (2006).
Imola
Imola (ancient Forum Cornelii) is a town of about 69,700 people in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, on the Via Aemilia and the Santerno river, founded as a Roman municipium and later seat of the Alidosi and Riario Sforza signories.
Innichen
Innichen (San Candido) is a market municipality in the upper Puster Valley, South Tyrol, Italy, at 1,174 m. Founded around a 769 Benedictine monastery, oldest abbey in Tyrol; 3,204 residents (2011); on the Pustertalbahn.
La Spezia
La Spezia, eastern Liguria, Italy: gulf port city and provincial capital, home of the Regia Marina arsenal (1869) and a major container port, gateway to the Cinque Terre.
Legnano
Legnano, Lombard town in the Alto Milanese about 25 km northwest of Milan; site of Frederick Barbarossa's 1176 defeat by the Lombard League; textile-industrial past, Legnano bicycles, Palio di Legnano.
Mantua
Mantua (Mantova), Lombard city on three Mincio lakes, ruled by the Gonzaga 1328-1707; Renaissance court city with Palazzo Ducale, Mantegna's Camera Picta, Palazzo Te; UNESCO site with Sabbioneta since 2008.
Merano
Merano (Meran) is South Tyrol's second-largest city, a former Tyrolean capital turned Habsburg spa town at the Passer-Adige confluence, with 42,046 residents, a near-even German-Italian split, Terme Merano, and 1.22 million overnight stays in 2024.
Milan
Milan (Italian: Milano; ancient Mediolanum), capital of Lombardy and Italy's second largest city, about 1,305,000 municipal inhabitants; historic financial and manufacturing center, home of the Duomo, with a 2018 Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and C40 low emission zone.
Modena
Modena (Latin Mutina), city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Roman colony founded 183 BC, buried Roman city 5 m deep, 1099 Romanesque cathedral, UNESCO site since 1997, Este duchy capital from 1598, 183,763 residents.