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Pompei
Pompei is a town of about 23,400 people in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy, on the southern slope of Mount Vesuvius, best known for the nearby ruins of ancient Pompeii.
Pordenone
Pordenone (Portus Naonis) is a city and provincial capital in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy: Habsburg from 1276, Venetian until 1797, Italian since 1866, known for frescoed arcades, Pordenonelegge, the silent film festival, and Italian Capital of Culture 2027.
Portoferraio
Portoferraio, main town and ferry port of Elba in the Province of Livorno, Tuscany; founded 1548 by Cosimo I de' Medici as Cosmopoli, Napoleon's 1814–15 exile capital, with about 11,750 residents and 3.2 million annual ferry passengers.
Portofino
Portofino (ancient Portus Delphini) is a Ligurian fishing village turned luxury resort in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy, on the Portofino promontory, with a marine protected area since 1999 and heavy tourism pressure.
Positano
Positano, comune in Salerno province on the Amalfi Coast, Italy; cliffside resort town of about 4,000 people, UNESCO-listed landscape, Steinbeck's 1953 essay, and severe landslide risk.
Pozzuoli
Pozzuoli (Puteoli) is a Campanian port town on the Gulf of Pozzuoli inside the Campi Flegrei caldera, a former major Roman harbor now known for bradyseism, recurring evacuations, and the 2026 magnitude 4.7 quake.
Prato, Tuscany
Prato, Tuscany: second-largest Tuscan city (198,327 residents, 2026) on the Bisenzio River near Florence, capital of the province of Prato, home to Europe's largest textile district, a large Chinese community, and a pioneering circular textile recycling economy.
Quartu S. Elena
Quartu S. Elena (Quartu Sant'Elena), a large town in the metropolitan city of Cagliari, Sardinia, four Roman miles from Caralis, with 38 nuraghi, the Nuraghe Diana, and the partially submerged Roman maritime villa of Sant'Andrea (2nd-4th century AD).
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.
Ravenna
Ravenna, Adriatic city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 AD and later Ostrogothic and Byzantine capital, with eight UNESCO early Christian mosaic monuments and Italy's only 11-km canal-port handling over 26 million tonnes a year.
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.
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia (Reggio nell'Emilia), Emilia-Romagna city on the Via Emilia between Parma and Modena; birthplace of the 1797 Italian tricolour, home of the Reggio Emilia Approach, and historic center of Parmigiano Reggiano production.
Rimini
Rimini, founded by Rome as Ariminum in 268 BC, is a city of about 150,000 on the Adriatic in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed for its seaside resorts.
Roccetta
Roccetta (rocchetta) is an Italian diminutive of roccia, a small rock outcrop, also the name of Monte Rocchetta above Riva del Garda, Alpe Roccetta near Balme, the Santa Marinella surf break La Roccetta, several Italian communes, and a crushed-stone road aggregate.
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.
Rovigo
Rovigo is a town in Veneto, Italy, capital of the Province of Rovigo in the Polesine between the Po and Adige rivers. First recorded in 838, ruled by the Este then Venice; notable for the 66-meter Torre Donà and about 50,000 residents.
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.
Salò
Salò, Italian town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, on the western shore of Lake Garda; 10,350 residents (2011), historic Magnifica Patria capital and seat of the 1943-45 Italian Social Republic ministries.
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.
Sanremo
Sanremo (San Remo) is a Ligurian resort city in the Province of Imperia, Italy, on the Riviera di Ponente, known for the Casino, the Festival della Canzone Italiana, the Milano-Sanremo cycling finish, and its 19th-century winter tourism history.
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.
Savona
Savona, Ligurian port city and provincial capital on the Riviera di Ponente (58,581 inhabitants in 2024); ancient rival of Genoa, seat of the Priamar fortress, home of the Della Rovere popes, and port handling 16.3 Mt of cargo in 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.
Sesto San Giovanni
Sesto San Giovanni, comune in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy; industrial town on the Lambro between Milan and Monza, home of the Falck steelworks and the MilanoSesto regeneration project.
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.