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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Foggia
Foggia, Apulia, Italy: provincial capital on the Tavoliere delle Puglie plain, first recorded 1069, Frederick II residence, rebuilt after the 1731 earthquake; agriculture-led economy, cathedral, Teatro Giordano.
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).
Giugliano in Campania
Giugliano in Campania (Giugliàn) is a town of about 125,000 in the Metropolitan City of Naples on the Campanian plain, near the Roman colony of Liternum; largest non-provincial-capital comune in Italy, historically Iulianum, fief of the Pinelli.
Guidonia Montecelio
Guidonia Montecelio, comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio; 89,011 residents (2025), third most populous in Lazio. Formed 1937 by joining hilltop Montecelio with planned Guidonia, built around the Barbieri airfield and named for General Alessandro Guidoni.
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.
Isernia
Isernia (Aesernia in Roman times) is a hill town of about 20,700 people and provincial capital in Molise, southern Italy, founded as a Latin colony in 263 BC, home to the 700,000-year-old Isernia La Pineta Paleolithic site, the cathedral of San Pietro Apostolo, and the National Palaeolithic Museum.
L'Aquila
L'Aquila, capital of Abruzzo, Italy: a 13th-century city of 99 castles at 721 m on the Aterno, repeatedly rebuilt after earthquakes, most recently the 2009 quake, with reconstruction now 96% private and 60% public, and Italian Capital of Culture 2026.
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.