Five comuni absorb 60.3%1 of all American overnight stays in Italy: Rome 25.5%1, Florence 14.6%1, Naples 7.0%, Venice 6.7% and Milan 6.5%.
69.9%
of comuni have fewer than 5,000 residents
16.4%
of Italians live in those comuni
On 1 January 2025 Italy had 7,8963 comuni, and 5,5223 of them had fewer than 5,0003 residents. Only 16.4%3 of the population lived there. Small-town Italy is most of the comuni and a minority of the people, and it's the Italy this section gives a page to as soon as there are two facts worth your trip.
Rome1,288 km²
The other seven, added up1,076 km²
Milan · Naples · Turin · Palermo · Genoa · Bologna · Florence
The comune of Rome covers 1,288 km²4, while Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Genoa, Bologna and Florence together reach 1,0764. Italy's second-largest comune by area isn't a big city at all: it's Ravenna, at 6544.
Morterone, in the province of Lecco, had 32 residents on 1 January 2025; Atrani, on the Amalfi Coast, covers 0.12 km²4. For altitude, ISTAT measures the spot where the town hall stands, not the highest peak in the comune.
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