Medieval hill towns, fishing villages and stone hamlets lost in time: the real Italy is often found in its smallest places. These are some of the villages most worth a detour.
Lazio
Bagnoregio
Civita, the dying town
TuscanySan Gimignano
Medieval towers in Tuscany
PugliaAlberobello
The trulli of Puglia
AbruzzoSanto Stefano di Sessanio
A stone village in the Gran Sasso
PiedmontOrta San Giulio
A lake village in Piedmont
SardiniaBosa
Colourful houses on a Sardinian river
TuscanyPienza
The ideal town of the Val d'Orcia
UmbriaSpello
Flower-filled lanes in Umbria
CalabriaGerace
A Byzantine and Norman town in Calabria
SardiniaCastelsardo
A fortified village on the sea
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