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Regions, Provinces, Communes in Italy

Our mission is to provide information on the Italian regions, provinces, communes and localities, help with spelling and location of places in Italy, their history and points of interest, museums and natural parks as well as accommodation facilities, a general guide to genealogy research in the country, and a collection of images and vintage postcards.
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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 to browse through localities in Italy:
map of Italy Aosta Valley Liguria Piedmont Lombardy Trentino South Tyrol Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Emilia Romagna Umbria Marches Abruzzi Tuscany Latium Molise Sardinia Sicily Basilicata Apulia Campania Calabria
freccinaThe Comuni: each of the 110 Provinces is divided into municipalities or communes (over 8100) - see the alphabetical list of Italian Communes.
freccinaThe Frazioni: each of the over 8100 comuni may be subdivided into frazioni or hamlets - see the alphabetical list of the Italian Frazioni.
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freccinaItalian Zip (Postal) codes : alphabetical lists of localities with their zip code and province useful to send to correctly normalized addresses.
freccinaImages from Italy: a growing collection of photos divided by region and locality.
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More resources:
freccinaOfficial websites of Italian communes, which usually offer a wealth of news, latest & next events, history & images of the place, often contact details for the local civil records office & municipal administration.
freccinaOfficial websites of Regions & Provinces: a good starting point to increase knowledge of specific areas.
divided by region & locality, a flavor of times gone by.
freccinaAccommodation: Directory of hotels, agritourisms, campings, holiday homes & other lodging solutions 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

freccinaThe Provinces: Each of the 20 Regions is divided into Provinces for a total of 110 (including 3 newly established & Aosta which is not actually a province) - alphabetical list of Italian Provinces: Agrigento, Alessandria, Ancona, Aosta, Arezzo, Ascoli Piceno, Asti, Avellino, Bari Barletta-Andria-Trani, Belluno , Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Brescia, Bologna, Bozen, 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
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