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Home » 10 Beautiful Italian Coastal Towns

10 Beautiful Italian Coastal Towns

September 26, 2014 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Italy offers one of the most beautiful European landscape. The long coastline harbors numerous small towns that can end up being wonderful surprises encountered in extended tourist routes. Many of them are former fishing towns and retained their old appearance. Even when new buildings are erected, they blend in the landscape, so no shiny glass finds its place there. Here are 10 beautiful Italian coastal towns.

1.      Positano

Positano is an Italian coastal town.

Aerial image of Positano.

Positano takes its place on Amalfi coast, one of the most popular Italian destination. After reaching its development peak in the 16th and 17th centuries, Positano lost many residents in the the 19th century. John Steinbeck writes that “Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.”

2.      Manarola

Manarola is an Italian coastal town

Image of Manarola at sunset.

Manarola is one of the five towns from the Italian Riviera region called Cinque Terre National Park. UNESCO classified the area a World Heritage Site. According to a date marked on the cornerstone of San Lorenzo church, Manarola was probably founded in 1338. The name of this beautiful Italian coastal town probably means “large wheel”, as a reference to the town’s mill wheel.

3.      Vernazza

The Italian coastal town of Vernazza

Image of Vernazza, an Italian town included in UNESCO Wrold Heritage list.

You can’t drive a car in Vernazza, another town from the Cinque Terre region. The classic fishing village was founded almost 1,000 years ago. Only 1,000 people live in what is considered one of the most classical Italian fishing villages.

4.      Corniglia

Corniglia is one of the Cinque Terre towns

Aerial view of vineyard surrounded Corniglia

Corniglia does not have direct access to the sea, but due to its higher altitude, it offers amazing panoramas. The small town is surrounded by vineyards. Corniglia dates back to the Romans and was mentioned by Boccaccio in a Decameron novel.

5.      Porto Ercole

Porto Ercole is a coastal Italian town .

Porto Ercole, the name of this Italian coastal town, means Port Hercules.

Porto Ercole is the Italian way of saying “Port Hercules”. The town is located on a small island connected to the main land by two land stripes. Porto Ercole was founded in the late 13th century and is just 150 miles north of Rome. The Dutch Royal family had a summer residence here in the second part of the last century.

6.      Ponza

Ponza is an Italian coastal town

Ponza is named after Pontius Pilat

Ponza is the name of an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, as well as the name of the town on the island found somewhere near the mainland between Rome and Naples. Allegedly, the island was named after Pontius Pilat, the judge who decided Jesus was an heretic. As most other coastal towns, Ponza lives of tourism and fishing.

7.      Otranto

Otranto is an Italian coastal town

Image of Otranto central harbor

If you want to find Otranto, you have to look right at Italy’s heel. The Adriatic and Ionic seas meet at Otranto, which is one of the closest Italian territories to Albania. Its geographical location makes Otranto’s history immensely rich. The famous pirate Barbarossa captured what was in the 16th century the city of Otranto, but the occupation lasted just for a short while.

8.      La Maddalena

La Maddalena is an Italian coastal town

La Maddalena during the summer

The town La Maddalena lies on a small homonymous island right next to Sardinia. Consequently, the almost 12,000 islanders speak one special dialect called Maddalenino, a blend of Sardinian and Corsican. To get there, you need to take a boat, but there are plenty of rides from the mainland.

9.      Camogli

Camogli is an Italian coastal town

Beach in Camogli.

This Northern Italian coastal town was once an important seaport. Out of 12,000 inhabitants in the 1880s, there were 500 ship captains living in the “city of a thousand white sails.” Camogli means “house of wives” (Cassa delle Mogli).

10. Praiano

Praiano is an Italian coastal town.

Hidden beach in Praiano.

Praiano is positioned in south west Italy on the famous Amalfi coast. People used to produce renowned silk in Praiano until the 19th century. After discovering corals nearby in the same period, fishing and tourism blossomed in Praiano. The town hosts the old Church of San Luca Evangelista built in 1123.

These are 10 beautiful Italian coastal towns, but the list is wide open. Drop us a line if you think we should include others!

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About Fred Mitchell

I like midnight surfing and going for jogs at sunrise with my my golden retriever, Charlie. When I'm not studying Russian literature or reading Dostoievski, you can find me playing video games like Witcher 3 or Battlefield Hardline, or hanging out in Starbucks sipping an Americano. I never leave the house without my phone and saying I am a social media addict would definitely not be an understatement.

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