Regions
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Your Guide to Italy:

Regions, Provinces & Communes, Accommodation, Culture & Traditions, Images, Events

Our mission is to provide information on Italian regions, provinces, communes, on the history of places, points of interest and natural parks, to guide through accommodation in Italy, inform on major Italian events, spread Italian culture through images, songs, language and literature, as well as help descendants of Italians abroad with genealogy research.

The Regions

Italy is is divided into 20 Regions, furtherly divided into Provinces, "Comuni" (= municipalities), "Frazioni" (= hamlets or districts) for over 35,000 localities. Select a region from the map or from the list below: Abruzzo, Aosta Valley, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Latium, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Puglia [Apulia], Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Trentino - Alto Adige, Umbria, Veneto

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The Comuni: each of the 110 Provinces is divided into municipalities or communes (over 8100) - see the alphabetical list of Italian Communes.

The Frazioni: each comune may be subdivided into frazioni or hamlets - see the list of the Italian Frazioni.

Italian Landmarks: dedicated to the points of interest in Italy: archeological sites, Roman towns, museums, castles, monasteries and abbeys.

Genealogy: a guide to genealogy research in Italy, with surname etymologies, surname lists by place, useful resources...

Learn Italian: a section devoted to improve your Italian language including exercises, literature with parallel texts, videorecipes in Italian with text transcriptions and translations...

Images from Italy: a growing collection of photos divided by region and locality, and Italian Vintage Cards divided by region & locality, a flavor of times gone by....

More resources: Official websites of Italian communes, which usually offer news, upcoming events, history, contact details of civil records offices; Official websites of Regions & Provinces: a good starting point to increase knowledge of specific areas.

Italian Zip (Postal) codes : alphabetical lists of localities with their zip code and province useful to send to correctly normalized addresses.

Accommodation: Hotels, agritourisms, campings, holiday homes & other accommodation in Italy, divided by region: Abruzzo, Apulia, Aosta Valley, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Latium, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Trentino South Tyrol, Umbria, Veneto

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The Provinces: Each of the 20 Regions is divided into Provinces for a total of 110 (including newly established ones & Aosta which is not actually a province):
Agrigento, Alessandria, Ancona, Aosta, Arezzo, Ascoli Piceno, Asti, Avellino, Bari , Barletta-Andria-Trani, Belluno , Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Brescia, Bologna, Bolzano, Brindisi, Cagliari, Caltanissetta, Campobasso, Carbonia Iglesias, Caserta, Catania, Catanzaro, Chieti, Como, Cosenza, Cremona, Crotone, Cuneo, Enna, Fermo, Ferrara, Florence, Foggia, Forlì-Cesena, Frosinone, Genoa, Gorizia, Grosseto, Imperia, Isernia, L'Aquila, La Spezia, Latina, Lecce, Lecco, Livorno, Lodi, Lucca, Macerata, Mantua, Massa-Carrara, Matera, Medio Campidano, Messina, Milan, Modena, Monza-Brianza, Naples, Novara, Nuoro, Ogliastra, Olbia Tempio, Oristano, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Pesaro-Urbino, Pescara, Piacenza, Pisa, Pistoia, Pordenone, Potenza, Prato, Ragusa, Ravenna, Reggio Calabria, Reggio Emilia, Rieti, Rimini, Rome, Rovigo, Salerno, Sassari, Savona, Siena, Siracusa, Sondrio, Taranto, Teramo, Terni Trapani, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Udine, Varese, Venice, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli, Verona, Vibo Valentia, Vicenza, Viterbo