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Italy by region

Twenty regions, one open file

Every link below leads to a town profile or field note already published on this site. The directory grows with the reporting; it does not pretend every region is equally covered yet.

Current site index · Last editorial check 2026-09-12
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Piedmont

PlaceOstanaBy the 1980s Ostana had five year-round residents. Its recovery made restored hamlets and living Occitan culture part of the same project. Field noteThings that never stoppedA quarry working since 1387, a forest owned collectively since 1111, a mountain road cut by hand in nine months
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Aosta Valley

Field noteBorders that make no senseSix places where the map of Italy stopped agreeing with itself
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Lombardy

Field noteBorders that make no senseSix places where the map of Italy stopped agreeing with itself Field noteThe villages the state tried to moveWhat happens when a government orders a town to stop existing
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Trentino-Alto Adige

Field noteThings that never stoppedA quarry working since 1387, a forest owned collectively since 1111, a mountain road cut by hand in nine months
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Veneto

Field noteThe rules Italians live withDress codes, entry fees, tourist taxes and a bridge waiting on an accounting court
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Friuli Venezia Giulia

PlaceVenzoneTwo earthquakes broke the medieval centre in 1976. Residents rebuilt it in place, cataloguing 8,000 shaped stones from the cathedral alone.
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Liguria

PlaceTrioraDuring a famine that had lasted more than two years, Triora arrested twenty people in a witchcraft prosecution. The case records still survive.
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Emilia-Romagna

PlaceCompianoOne castle holds both the last marchioness's house museum and what the Ministry of Culture calls Italy's first and only museum of Freemasonry. Field noteFound by accidentA plough, a fishing net, a road widening, a wall that needed underpinning
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Tuscany

Field noteThings that never stoppedA quarry working since 1387, a forest owned collectively since 1111, a mountain road cut by hand in nine months
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Umbria

Field noteBorders that make no senseSix places where the map of Italy stopped agreeing with itself
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Marche

PlaceOffidaA seven-room lace museum and two street rites - a mock ox and bundles of burning reeds - make Offida's craft and Carnival unusually legible. Field noteFound by accidentA plough, a fishing net, a road widening, a wall that needed underpinning
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Lazio

PlaceCalcataThe old village survived a state-planned transfer and later revived through artists, writers and craftspeople living in its tufa houses. Field noteThe villages the state tried to moveWhat happens when a government orders a town to stop existing
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Abruzzo

PlaceSanto Stefano di SessanioThe 2009 earthquake brought down the Medici tower. Twelve years later it reopened after a reconstruction that reused recovered stone. Field noteThings that never stoppedA quarry working since 1387, a forest owned collectively since 1111, a mountain road cut by hand in nine months
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Molise

PlaceSepinoAt Roman Saepinum, an ancient drove road becomes the paved decumanus: the route of the flocks is still the route through the town.
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Campania

PlaceRoscignoSpecial landslide laws forced the transfer from Roscigno Vecchia. Its former rectory now holds about 800 objects from the abandoned settlement. Field noteThe villages the state tried to moveWhat happens when a government orders a town to stop existing Field noteWhat Vesuvius keptThe eruption of 79 is still producing new information, almost every month Field noteThe ground is movingVolcanoes, glaciers and a caldera with half a million people living inside it
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Puglia

PlaceSpecchiaGuided routes beneath Specchia enter the underground olive presses used from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Field noteFound by accidentA plough, a fishing net, a road widening, a wall that needed underpinning
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Basilicata

PlaceCastelmezzanoFifty-four steps cut into a sandstone spire once reached the watch point of Castrum Medianum. Today the climb is supervised and equipped. Field noteThe villages the state tried to moveWhat happens when a government orders a town to stop existing
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Calabria

PlaceStiloA five-domed Byzantine church founded around the year 1000 stands above the birthplace of philosopher Tommaso Campanella. Field noteThe rules Italians live withDress codes, entry fees, tourist taxes and a bridge waiting on an accounting court
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Sicily

PlacePetralia SopranaAn active rock-salt mine at Raffo contains a contemporary-art museum that opens only on announced, bookable dates. Field noteFound by accidentA plough, a fishing net, a road widening, a wall that needed underpinning Field noteThe ground is movingVolcanoes, glaciers and a caldera with half a million people living inside it Field noteThe rules Italians live withDress codes, entry fees, tourist taxes and a bridge waiting on an accounting court
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Sardinia

PlaceOrgosoloA 1969 mural and the peaceful Pratobello mobilisation belong to the same political moment. More than 150 works now carry that archive across the town. Field noteThe villages the state tried to moveWhat happens when a government orders a town to stop existing Field noteThings that never stoppedA quarry working since 1387, a forest owned collectively since 1111, a mountain road cut by hand in nine months

Boundary reference: Istat, 1 January 2026, reused under CC BY 4.0.