Your Guide to Italy

Regions, Provinces, Communes, Accommodation, Events

Our mission is to provide information on Italian regions, provinces, communes, on the history of places, points of interest and natural parks and accommodation in Italy, images, events and songs, as well as help with Italian 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 list for Italian localities: Abruzzo, Apulia, Aosta Valley, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Latium, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Trentino - Alto Adige, Umbria, Veneto

In the Spotlight: From BBC News: Deadly northern Italy earthquake hits heritage sites

The snowfall of winter 1956

Google News on Italy

An Italian Course for beginners
New lesson: Italian adjectives.

Italian Heritage

Save the Children
"Creating lasting change for children in need"

150 years after the Unity of Italy: official website

Updates:
» Hotels in the Province of Parma
» Anzano di Puglia and Accadia, Apulia
» new Unesco Heritage Sites: Dolomites and Monte San Giorgio.

Accommodation: 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

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 of the over 8100 comuni may be subdivided into frazioni or hamlets - see the list of the Italian Frazioni.

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

Italian Landmarks: dedicated to the points of interest in Italy: archeological sites, Roman towns, museums, castles, monasteries and abbeys.
In the spotlight: the Fountain of 99 Spouts in L'Aquila

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

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

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

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, 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