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The 20 Most Beautiful Places in Italy to Visit

by YPB Team4 votes

Cliff villages, lake towns, a city of caves and one volcano that never quite goes quiet. Some are on every postcard; a few still get missed by the tour buses.

  1. Venice — ranked #11
    Venice
    Lagoon city spread over more than a hundred small islands in the Veneto, crossed by canals instead of streets.
    1000pts
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  2. Lake Como — ranked #22
    Lake Como
    Deep glacial lake in Lombardy lined with villas and the towns of Bellagio, Varenna and Menaggio.
    800pts
  3. Siena — ranked #33
    Siena
    Medieval Tuscan city built around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, where the Palio horse race runs twice each summer.
    535pts
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  4. Matera — ranked #44
    Matera
    Basilicata city of the Sassi, cave dwellings carved into a ravine and lived in for thousands of years.
    525pts
  5. Cinque Terre — ranked #55
    Cinque Terre
    Five fishing villages on the Ligurian coast, joined by cliff footpaths and listed by UNESCO in 1997.
    525pts
  6. Taormina — ranked #66
    Taormina
    Hilltop town on Sicily's east coast, famous for an ancient theatre that frames the slopes of Mount Etna.
    463pts
  7. Portofino — ranked #77
    Portofino
    Small Ligurian fishing port whose ring of painted houses around the harbour made it a favourite of the yacht set.
    463pts
  8. Lake Garda — ranked #88
    Lake Garda
    Italy's largest lake, shared by Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino, with the castle town of Sirmione on its southern shore.
    463pts
  9. Florence — ranked #99
    Florence
    Tuscan birthplace of the Renaissance, its skyline dominated by Brunelleschi's dome over the cathedral.
    463pts
  10. Alberobello — ranked #1010
    Alberobello
    Puglia town filled with trulli, whitewashed stone houses with conical roofs, listed by UNESCO in 1996.
    392pts
  11. Aeolian Islands — ranked #1111
    Aeolian Islands
    Volcanic archipelago off northern Sicily that includes Lipari, Vulcano and the still-active Stromboli.
    392pts
  12. Polignano a Mare — ranked #1212
    Polignano a Mare
    Town perched on limestone cliffs above the Adriatic in Puglia, with the Lama Monachile cove at its heart.
    392pts
  13. Cala Goloritzé — ranked #1313
    Cala Goloritzé
    Secluded cove on Sardinia's Gulf of Orosei, reached by boat or a mountain trail and marked by a natural rock arch.
    392pts
  14. Amalfi Coast — ranked #1414
    Amalfi Coast
    About fifty kilometres of cliffs, lemon terraces and pastel towns such as Positano on Campania's Sorrentine Peninsula.
    392pts
  15. Capri — ranked #1515
    Capri
    Island in the Bay of Naples known for the Faraglioni sea stacks and the Blue Grotto.
    309pts
  16. Rome — ranked #1616
    Rome
    Italy's capital, where the Colosseum, the Pantheon and St Peter's Basilica stand within a few kilometres of each other.
    309pts
  17. The Dolomites — ranked #1717
    The Dolomites
    Pale limestone peaks spread across three regions of north-eastern Italy, a UNESCO site since 2009.
    210pts
  18. Civita di Bagnoregio — ranked #1818
    Civita di Bagnoregio
    Hilltop village in Lazio reachable only by a footbridge, slowly crumbling as its clay ridge erodes.
    210pts
  19. Val d'Orcia — ranked #1919
    Val d'Orcia
    Tuscan valley of rolling hills and cypress-lined roads between Montalcino and Pienza, on the UNESCO list since 2004.
    210pts
  20. Tropea — ranked #2020
    Tropea
    Calabrian clifftop town facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, crowned by the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Isola.
    0pts

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