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The most beautiful hilltop villages and mountainside villages around the world.
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Altomonte8 photos
Altomonte is a municipality in the province of Cosenza, in the region of Calabria. The city was first called Braal, then Bragalla, Bragallum, …
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Amalfi Coast192 photos
The Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana), on the south of Naples, extends from Positano in the west to Vietri sul Mare in the east.
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Arsoli26 photos
Arsoli, in the province of Rome, dates back to the 11th century and has nice narrow ancient streets, a medieval centre still preserved, as well as a…
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Bagnoregio65 photos
Bagnoregio is located about 90 km north-west of Rome and about 28 km north of Viterbo. Anciently it was called Novempagi and Balneum Regium, whence…
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Brienza78 photos
Brienza, is a town in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.
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Bundi68 photos
Bundi, is a city in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in north-west India. It is of particular architectural note for its ornate forts, palaces,…
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Calcata98 photos
Calcata, in the Province of Viterbo, is located 50 km north of Rome over the valley of the Treja River. In the 1930s, the fortified centre was…
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Caprarola38 photos
The Palazzo Farnese located in the medieval village of Caprarola was designed by Vignola and built between 1559 and 1575. It takes its pentagonal…
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Castelmezzano38 photos
Castelmezzano origins’ are dated to the 7th century BC. In the 19th century, it was an ideal refuge for many bandits due to its own territorial…
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Cervara di Roma58 photos
Cervara di Roma, located about 50 km east of Rome, was founded by Benedictine Monks in the 8th or 9th century. The historic centre of Cervara, this…
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Church village of Wamberg12 photos
The church village of Wamberg is part of the municipality of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Upper Bavaria) at 996 m. The place is on the north side of the …
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Craco228 photos
Craco, an abandoned Italian village located in the region of Basilicata and the province of Matera, was called the area “Grachium” which means “from…
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Farnese60 photos
Farnese in the Province of Viterbo is located about 100 km north-west of Rome and about 35 km north-west of Viterbo and is the origin of the…
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Ferrandina116 photos
Ferrandina is a town in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, famous for producing the highest level of quality …
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Ios46 photos
Ios (Ίος) is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides, situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. The Port of Ios (Gialos) is at…
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Labro44 photos
Labro, a municipality in the Italian region Latium, is located about 70 km north-east of Rome and about 15 km north-west of Rieti.
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Licenza16 photos
Licenza is a village located about 40 km north-east of Rome.
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Matera346 photos
Matera, a town in the region of Basilicata, is perched on the edge of a small canyon eroded by the Gravina. The lower Sassi (caves) district is…
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Meteora108 photos
The Metéora (Μετέωρα), lit. “middle of the sky”, “suspended in the air” or “in the heavens above”, is one of the largest and most important…
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Monte Sant’Angelo132 photos
Monte Sant’Angelo is a town in Puglia, about 15 km north of Manfredonia, on the southern slopes of Monte Gargano. Between 1081 and 1103, Monte…
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Morano Calabro34 photos
Morano Calabro is a town in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It inspired one of Escher’s obsessive, dreamlike…
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Olevano Romano24 photos
Olevano Romano is a municipality located about 45 km east of Rome. It is the birthplace of the composer Giovanni Gentile.
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Oria44 photos
Oria, a town in the Apulia region, was founded by the Messapians sometime after the abortive siege of the Sicanian city Camicus. Between 217 and 84…
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Ostuni172 photos
Ostuni, with its citadel build on the top of a hill, is still fortified with the ancient walls. It is reputed as an architectural jewel, and is…
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Patmos210 photos
Patmos (Πάτμος) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, one of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex. The highest point is Profitis…
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Patrica40 photos
Patrica is a village in the Italian region Lazio, located about 70 km south-east of Rome and about 10 km south-west of Frosinone. It is part of …
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Pentidattilo38 photos
Pentidattilo is an abandoned village in the Italian Calabria region.
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Pietrapertosa26 photos
Pietrapertosa is a town in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Pietrapertosa is inside the Park of Gallipoli…
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Pisticci52 photos
Pisticci is a town in the province of Matera known for its Rioni.
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Pitigliano66 photos
Pitigliano is a town located about 80 km south-east of Grosseto. The quaint old town is known as the little Jerusalem, for the historical presence…
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Polino30 photos
Polino, a village in the Italian region Umbria, is located about 70 km south-east of Perugia and about 15 km east of Terni.
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Rivello4 photos
Rivello is a town in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.
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Rocca Imperiale92 photos
Rocca Imperiale is a village situated on a rise about 200 m above sea level in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It…
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Rocchette32 photos
Rocchette is a village located in the heart of Sabina in the Lazio. A few kilometres from the border with Umbria, the twin strongholds of Rocchette…
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Romagnano al Monte132 photos
Romagnano al Monte is a village at the borders of Campania with Basilicata. It was destroyed in the Irpinia earthquake of 1980 and rebuilt a few…
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San Vito Romano16 photos
San Vito Romano, a municipality in the Italian region Latium, is located about 40 km east of Rome.
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Santorini200 photos
Santorini (Σαντορίνη), classically Thera, and officially Thira, is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and…
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Sant’Agata de’ Goti126 photos
Sant’Agata dei Goti in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, is located about 35 km north-east of Naples near the Monte Taburno.…
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Scanno22 photos
Scanno is a town with alleys and narrow streets in the province of L’Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.
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Sorano30 photos
Sorano is a town in the province of Grosseto, southern Tuscany. It has an ancient medieval hill town hanging from a tuff stone over the Lente River. …
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Toffia38 photos
Toffia is a village in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Lazio, located about 40 km north-east of Rome and about 25 km south-west of Rieti.
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Tolfa31 photos
Tolfa is a town of the Province of Rome. It is the main centre in the Tolfa Mountains, an extinct volcanic group between Civitavecchia and the Lake…
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Vallo di Nera76 photos
Vallo di Nera is a village in the region Umbria, located about 60 km south-east of Perugia.
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Vico del Gargano86 photos
Vico del Gargano is a village in the region Puglia and is part of the Parco Nazionale del Gargano. Vico del Gargano is also famous for the number of…
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Vitorchiano112 photos
Vitorchiano is a village in the Latium, located about 70 km north-west of Rome and about 7 km north-east of Viterbo.