Evening light over a hilltop village in the Marche countryside

5666 comuni across Italy · 9 ways to read a village

A small Italian village, warm and still awake.

Thousands of Italian villages are for sale. Only some still have a bar open in November. Search all 5666 of them by size, services and whether anyone is staying.

The atlas of Italy

Every Italian village, side by side

Filter by the things that decide a move: how many people are left, whether the shop and the doctor are still there, and whether the population is holding. Filtering on a score sets aside the villages where that axis is not yet measured. A gap is never filled with a guess.

5664 villages of 5666

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5666 comuni across 20 regions · browse them by region · photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their own licences · data refreshed 2026-07-31.

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Four ways into Italy

The same measured Italian villages, ranked for four different reasons to move.

Il nostro modo

We don't sell dreams of Italy. We walk into a village with a notebook: how far the train is, how many groceries are still trading, how old everyone is, what the summer does to a stone house at five hundred metres.

How we read a village

9 quiet questions

Every village is scored on the same axes, from open data, with the gaps left visible rather than filled in.

  • 01

    services

    Whether you can buy bread, post a letter and collect a prescription without the car.

  • 02

    access

    How long the road, the rail and the runway really take.

  • 03

    vitality

    Whether the village is holding its people or quietly emptying.

  • 04

    hospitality

    Bars, tables, beds — the signs that evenings still happen here.

  • 05

    cost

    What a house actually costs, per square metre.

  • 06

    community

    How many foreigners already made the same move.

  • 07

    climate

    Sun, the shape of the winter, the weight of the summer.

  • 08

    digital

    Measured download speeds, not advertised ones.

  • 09

    air

    What you breathe, against WHO guidelines.

Six questions

Which of the five thousand is yours?

Answer six questions and we rank all 5,664 measured Italian villages against them. Your top three appear straight away, no email.

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