This collection gathers hill towns and historic village centers, small places with stone houses, narrow lanes, and compact squares. It suits anyone looking for a day trip out of the city, a walk through old streets, or a calm base for exploring the surrounding area.
Places: Hill town (120)
Accumoli (RI)You reach Accumoli from State Road 4 Salaria, at around kilometer 142, at an elevation of 855 meters, in the province of Rieti. The town hall is at…- Acquapendente (VT)You can walk around Acquapendente freely, but the three places that justify the trip have different rules. The Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, in P…
- Alatri (FR)Alatri (FR) - Via del Duomo, 31, 03011 Alatri FR
- Albano Laziale (RM)Albano Laziale is in the province of Rome, in the Alban Hills, just under 25 kilometers from the center of the capital along Via Appia (State Road…
- Allumiere (RM)Allumiere sits at 522 meters above sea level in the Monti della Tolfa, in the province of Rome, and its administrative center and its tourist cente…
- Alvito (FR)Alvito (FR) is a municipality of about 2,500 inhabitants in the Val di Comino, in the province of Frosinone, at 738 meters above sea level on the s…
- Amalfi CoastAbout 3 hours from Rome, the Amalfi Coast is the stretch of Campanian coast on the southern Tyrrhenian Sea in the province of Salerno, located sout…
- Amatrice (RI)Amatrice stands at 955 meters above sea level in the province of Rieti, at the far northeast of Lazio, where the region touches Umbria, Marche and…
- Anagni (FR)Anagni (FR) -
- Anguillara Sabazia (RM)Anguillara Sabazia is on the southeastern shore of Lake Bracciano, in the province of Rome, about 40 kilometers from the center of the capital alon…
- Anticoli Corrado (RM)Anticoli Corrado (RM) is a municipality of about 850 inhabitants perched at 508 meters above sea level, on a ridge of the Monti Ruffi that overlook…
- Antrodoco (RI)Antrodoco (RI) is a municipality of a little over 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, spread out at about 500 meters of elevation at the so…
- Antuni – ghost town (RI)Antuni is the uninhabited hamlet of the municipality of Castel di Tora, in the province of Rieti. You reach it from the turnoff for Castel di Tora…
- Anzio (RM)Anzio (RM) - Via Fanciulla d’Anzio, 00042 Anzio RM
- Aquino (FR)Aquino is in the province of Frosinone, in the Liri Valley, about 130 kilometers southeast of Rome and less than 20 kilometers from Cassino. The me…
- Arcinazzo RomanoArcinazzo Romano is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital at about 850 meters of elevation, with just over 1,200 residents, barel…
- Ardea (RM)Ardea (RM) is reached from Rome in about 40 minutes: from the Grande Raccordo Anulare you take via Laurentina (SP 95a) southbound and continue for…
- Argentario (GR)Argentario (GR) - Porto Santo Stefano, Province of Grosseto
- Ariccia (RM)Ariccia is the town of the fraschette, one of our favorite destinations in the Castelli Romani for spending a day or an evening with friends withou…
- Arpino (FR)Arpino (FR) -
- Arsoli (RM)Arsoli sits 470 meters above sea level on the last rocky spur of the Aniene Valley before the Abruzzo border, in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capi…
- Artena (RM)Artena occupies the northern slope of the Monti Lepini about 30 kilometers from Rome, with the town hall in Piazza della Vittoria and the built-up…
- Atina (FR)Atina is in the province of Frosinone, in the Valle di Comino, about 490 meters above sea level and a little under two hours by car from Rome: you…
- Barbarano Romano (VT)You reach Barbarano Romano (VT) by car along Via Cassia and then on the provincial roads of the lower Tuscia, or by Cotral buses, which connect the…
- Bassano in Teverina (VT)Bassano in Teverina is a comune in the province of Viterbo of about 1,300 inhabitants, at 304 meters above sea level on a spur of volcanic rock tha…
- Bassano Romano (VT)Bassano Romano is a village in the Tuscia that you can walk around freely, and its main monument, Villa Giustiniani-Odescalchi in Piazza Umberto I,…
- Bassiano (LT)Bassiano is a town of just over 1,400 inhabitants in Latina Province, perched at 562 meters on the Pontine side of the Lepini Mountains, on a munic…
- Blera (VT)Blera is a town in the province of Viterbo with about 2,900 inhabitants, at 260 meters above sea level, lying on a tuff spur a kilometer and a half…
- Bocchignano (RI)Bocchignano is a hamlet of the municipality of Montopoli di Sabina, in the province of Rieti, about 55-60 kilometers from Rome. The village is an i…
- Bolsena (VT)Bolsena is a town of about 3,000 600 people in the province of Viterbo, on the northeastern shore of the lake that bears its name, in the upper Tus…
- Borgo Velino (RI)You reach Borgo Velino from the Salaria, State Road 4, at the kilometer that separates Antrodoco from Castel Sant'Angelo. The town hall and the Civ…
- Boville Ernica (FR)Boville Ernica is a comune in the province of Frosinone of about 8,300 inhabitants (a few hundred inside the walls), at 487 meters above sea level…
- Bracciano (RM)Bracciano (RM) is a town of about 18,400 residents in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, set on the Sabatini Mountains about 40 kilometers from…
- Calcata (VT)Calcata is a village “out of the world and out of time,” a town of witches, hippies and artists less than an hour from Rome's G.R.A.
- Campodimele (LT)Campodimele (LT) is a town of a little over 500 residents perched on a karst hill between the Ausoni Mountains and the Aurunci, in the province of…
- Campoli Appennino (FR)Campoli Appennino is a municipality of about 1,600 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, at 650 meters above sea level, resting on the edge of…
- Canale Monterano (RM)Canale Monterano can be reached in a little under an hour from the Grande Raccordo Anulare: the town hall is at Piazza del Campo 9, at 378 meters a…
- CaninoCanino is a comune in the province of Viterbo, in the Lazio Maremma, and the town can be walked freely, with no tickets and no reservation. The tow…
- Cantalice (RI)Cantalice is a municipality of a little over 2,400 residents in the province of Rieti, perched on the southwestern slopes of the Reatini Mountains…
- Canterano (RM)Canterano (RM) is a municipality of just over 350 inhabitants in the upper Aniene valley, in the province of Rome, set at 602 meters above sea leve…
- Capalbio (GR)Capalbio (GR) - Capalbio 58011 GR
- Capodimonte (VT) – Lake BolsenaCapodimonte is a town in the province of Viterbo of about 1,650 inhabitants, at 334 meters above sea level, built on a promontory of volcanic rock…
- Capranica (VT)Capranica (VT) is a municipality of just over 6,300 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, on the southern foothills of the Cimini Mountains, at k…
- Caprarola (VT)Caprarola (VT) - Via Filippo Nicolai, 561, 01032 Caprarola VT
- Carpineto Romano (RM)Carpineto Romano (RM) is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Roma Capitale in the Monti Lepini, about 60 kilometers southeast of the capital…
- Cascia (PG)Cascia (PG) is in Umbria, in the southeastern corner of the province of Perugia, on the Sant'Agostino hill, above the valley of the Corno river. Th…
- Casperia (RI)Casperia (RI) - Via Rivellini, 02041 Casperia RI
- Castel di Tora (RI)Castel di Tora is one of the wonders of Lazio, set in an evocative scenery of woods, gorges, streams and lakes. About an hour from Rome, it is cons…
- Castel Gandolfo (RM)Castel Gandolfo can be reached from Rome in just under an hour. The regional train on the Roma Termini - Albano Laziale line stops at Castel Gandol…
- Castel MadamaCastel Madama is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Rome, at 428 meters above sea level on the slope that overlooks the Aniene valley, abou…
- Castel San Pietro Romano (RM)Castel San Pietro Romano is a small Italian town with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.
- Castel Sant’Elia (VT)Castel Sant'Elia (VT) is a town of about 2,400 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, in the Agro Falisco, built on the edge of a tuff cliff that…
- Castelnuovo di Farfa (RI)Castelnuovo di Farfa can be reached in a little over an hour from Rome: the town hall and municipal offices occupy Palazzo Perelli, on Viale Regina…
- Castelnuovo di Porto (RM)Castelnuovo di Porto is a municipality of a little under 9,000 inhabitants on Via Flaminia, about 30 kilometers north of Rome, with the old village…
- Castiglione in Teverina (VT)Castiglione in Teverina is in Viterbo Province, on the ridge that separates Lazio from Umbria, 228 meters above sea level and about 40 kilometers f…
- Castro dei Volsci (FR)Castro dei Volsci is a municipality of about 4,300 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, at an elevation of 384 meters, on the last spur of the…
- Ceccano (FR)Ceccano (FR) is a municipality of about 22,000 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, set on a limestone ridge that overlooks the middle Sacco V…
- Celleno (VT)The ghost village of Celleno (VT) occupies a tuff spur 341 meters above sea level, in the Teverina area of Viterbo, about a kilometer and a half fr…
- CeriCeri is an inhabited hamlet of the Municipality of Cerveteri, built on a tuff cliff, and can be visited freely: you enter the village on foot, with…
- Cervara di Roma (RM)Cervara di Roma (RM) is the highest town in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital: the built-up center sits at 1,053 meters above sea level, and th…
- Cerveteri (RM)Cerveteri is a little over half an hour from Rome by car: 42 kilometers along the Aurelia or the Rome-Civitavecchia highway, exit Cerveteri-Ladispo…
- Chia ghost town (Soriano nel Cimino)Chia is a hamlet of the municipality of Soriano nel Cimino, in the province of Viterbo, at about 300 meters above sea level and seven kilometers fr…
- Cittaducale (RI)Cittaducale (Cìeta in the local dialect) is a late medieval town of fewer than 7,000 inhabitants gently set on the Colle di Cerreto Piano along Via…
- Cittareale (RI)Cittareale (RI) -
- Civita Castellana (VT)Civita Castellana is in the province of Viterbo, in the southern Tuscia, perched on a spur of red tuff about 80 kilometers from Rome along Via Flam…
- Civita di Bagnoregio (VT)Civita di Bagnoregio (VT) -
- Civitavecchia (RM)Civitavecchia (RM) is the main town of the northern area of the province of Rome, just over 51,000 inhabitants, with 71 kilometers of Tyrrhenian co…
- Civitella d’Agliano (VT)Civitella d’Agliano is a municipality of just over 1,500 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, postal code 01020, area code 0761, set at 262 mete…
- Civitella San Paolo (RM)Civitella San Paolo is a walled village of just over 2000 inhabitants in the province of Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber, about 40 kilometers…
- Collalto Sabino (RI)Collalto Sabino is a municipality in the province of Rieti, perched at 980 meters on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo, inside the boundaries of…
- Collepardo (FR)Collepardo is in Frosinone Province, in southern Lazio, at 674 meters of altitude on the slopes of the Ernici Mountains. The distance from Rome is…
- Contigliano (RI)Contigliano is a municipality of about 3,600 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, seven kilometers west of the provincial capital, on the southwes…
- Cori (LT)Cori is in Latina Province, perched on the north slope of the Lepini Mountains at an altitude ranging from about 220 meters at Cori Valle to nearly…
- Fabrica di Roma (VT)Fabrica di Roma is a town in Viterbo Province at the foot of the Cimini Mountains, a short distance from Lake Vico and about an hour by car from th…
- Faleria (VT)Faleria is a town of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at the southern tip of the province, where the countryside of the nort…
- Fara in Sabina (RI)Fara in Sabina is a medieval village in the province of Rieti, in Lazio, perched at 482 meters above sea level on a ridge that looks over the Tiber…
- Farfa Abbey (RI)Farfa Abbey is at Via del Monastero 1, in Fara in Sabina, province of Rieti, at the foot of Monte Acuziano and about a hundred meters from the stre…
- Farnese (VT)Farnese is a town in Viterbo Province, postal code 01010, at 343 meters above sea level on a spur of tuff that looks west to Lake Bolsena and north…
- Ferentino (FR)Ferentino rises on a hill of the Monti Ernici about 75 kilometers from Rome, in the province of Frosinone, and overlooks the Valle del Sacco from a…
- Filacciano (RM)Filacciano is at Via Oreste Leonardi 5, postal code 00060, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, on the tuff spur that closes the Roman Tiber Valley t…
- Filettino (FR)Filettino (FR) is the highest municipality in Lazio: the town center is at 1,063 meters above sea level, in the province of Frosinone, at the easte…
- Fiuggi (FR)Fiuggi (FR) is reached from Rome in just over an hour. Take the Autostrada A1 heading south, exit at Anagni-Fiuggi, and climb along regional road 1…
- FondiFondi can be visited in half a day on foot, and what sets it apart from the other towns of southern Lazio is not the castle: it's the layout. The h…
- Formia (LT)Formia, on the Riviera di Ulisse, is known for its gardens, but above all for its vast artistic and cultural heritage, as well as its historical an…
- Frascati (RM)Frascati (RM) - Frascati 00044 RM
- Fumone (FR)Fumone (FR) stands 783 meters above sea level, on an isolated hill between the Ernici Mountains and the Lepini Mountains, in Frosinone Province. Th…
- Gaeta (LT)Gaeta (LT) -
- Genazzano (RM)Genazzano (RM) - 00030 Genazzano RM
- Genzano di Roma (RM)Genzano di Roma (RM) - Genzano di Roma 00045 RM
- Giglio IslandGiglio Island, a few kilometers by ship from Porto Santo Stefano and the Argentario, is an unspoiled paradise to visit at least once in a lifetime.
- Gradoli (VT)Gradoli is a town of about 1,200 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at 470 meters above sea level, on a tuff spur on the northwestern shore of…
- Graffignano (VT)Graffignano is a municipality of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at 187 meters above sea level, on a tuff plateau overlooki…
- Grottaferrata (RM)A small, elegant town at the gates of Rome, Grottaferrata is known for the Abbey of San Nilo and for the historic fair of medieval origin held here…
- Grotte di Castro (VT)Grotte di Castro is a town of about 2,400 residents in the province of Viterbo, 467 meters above sea level on the northern rim of the Vulsini calde…
- Guarcino (FR)Guarcino (FR) is a town of about 1,500 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, resting on a ridge of the Ernici Mountains at a little over 600 me…
- Guidonia MontecelioGuidonia Montecelio is a municipality of the metropolitan city of Rome, about 22 kilometers from the capital according to the Lazio Region's touris…
- Ischia di CastroIschia di Castro can be visited freely, on foot, on any day. The fixed point is the Pietro and Turiddo Lotti Civic Archaeological Museum, at Piazza…
- Isola del Liri (FR)Isola del Liri (FR) -
- Itri (LT)Itri (LT) is a municipality of a little over 10,000 residents in Latina Province, at 170 meters above sea level, in a valley of the Aurunci Mountai…
- Labro (RI)Labro is visited freely and on foot: it's a stone village in the province of Rieti, right on the border with Umbria, built on a hill overlooking La…
- Lake Fogliano (LT)Lake Fogliano (LT) - Str. Lungomare, 3657, 04100 Latina LT, Italy
- Lariano (RM)Lariano sits on the provincial road that climbs from Velletri toward the Lepini Mountains, about 30 kilometers from Rome, and the town hall is at V…
- Lenola (LT)Lenola is a town of a little over 4,000 inhabitants in the province of Latina, set at 425 meters above sea level on a hill that closes off the Fond…
- Leonessa (RI)Leonessa rises on the Apennine plateau that separates Lazio from Umbria, at about 1,013 meters above sea level, in the province of Rieti. The munic…
- Marino (RM)Marino (RM) - Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 5, 00047 Marino RM
- Marta (VT) on Lake BolsenaMarta is on the southern shore of Lake Bolsena, in the province of Viterbo, at an elevation of 315 meters, at the exact point where the lake emptie…
- MentanaMentana is the town where the Italian Risorgimento stopped for three years. On November 3, 1867 Garibaldi's volunteers were beaten here, 22 kilomet…
- Minturno (LT)Minturno (LT) is a town in southern Lazio, at the southern tip of the province of Latina, set on the coastal foothills of the Aurunci Mountains as…
- Montalto di Castro (VT)Montalto di Castro, about an hour and a half from Rome, is a small municipality with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a jewel of the Tuscia in Lazio,…
- Monte Compatri (RM)Monte Compatri (RM) is a municipality of about 11,800 inhabitants on the eastern side of the Vulcano Laziale, 576 meters above sea level: the third…
- Monte Porzio Catone (RM)Monte Porzio Catone (RM) is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Roma Capitale, on the northern slope of the Alban Hills, between Frascati to…
- Montebuono (RI)Montebuono is a municipality of just over 800 inhabitants in lower Sabina, in the province of Rieti, at 325 meters above sea level on the slopes of…
- Montefiascone (VT)Montefiascone is in the province of Viterbo, in the Upper Tuscia of Lazio, perched on the cone of an ancient volcano that closes off the southeast…
- Montelanico (RM)Montelanico (RM) is a municipality of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, lying on the northern slope of the Lepi…
- Monterano Ghost TownAntica Monterano is reached from Canale Monterano, in the province of Rome: the town hall is at Piazza del Campo 9, the operations office of the Mo…
- Nemi (RM)Nemi (RM) - Piazza Roma, 00074 Nemi RM
- Nepi (VT)Nepi is in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, about 50 kilometers north of Rome, perched on a triangular spur of tuff that the ravines hav…
- Nettuno (RM)Nettuno (RM) - Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini, 9, 00048 Nettuno RM
- Norcia (PG)Norcia (PG) is in Umbria, province of Perugia, at about 600 meters above sea level on the northern edge of the Santa Scolastica plain, inside the M…
- Norma (LT)Norma is a comune in the province of Latina, in the Monti Lepini, about 80 kilometers from Rome and an hour and a half by car from the Grande Racco…
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