Cities
Matera · Basilicata
Some Italian cities were not built on the landscape but out of it. The Sassi of Matera are dwellings cut straight into the tufa, lived in for millennia, and protected as a UNESCO site since 1993.
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The widest of the six doors. Everything here is example material — the pages written by the people who live in these places come first.
Villages
Civita di Bagnoregio · Lazio
A village on a tufa spur, reached by a single footbridge. Erosion has been taking its edges for centuries, and a handful of people still live there.
Coast
Cinque Terre · Liguria
Five villages above the sea, joined by paths and a railway rather than roads. A UNESCO site since 1997 — and a reminder that the Italian coast was settled from the water, not from the land.
Islands
Burano · Venetian lagoon
Houses painted in strong colours, so the story goes, so that fishermen could find their way home through the fog. Italy has hundreds of islands; many of them keep their own dialect and their own feast day.
Mountains
Dolomites · Trentino-Alto Adige
Pale limestone towers where three languages are spoken in the same valley. The paths across them were front lines between 1915 and 1918, and the mountain huts still keep the same names.
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