page_title: Old town
section_title: Italy
hierarchical_section_title: Old town / Europe / Italy
caption_attribution_description: Assisi (PG)
context_page_description: In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the old town. This is a list of some famous old towns:
context_section_description: UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
  Assisi (Umbria)
  Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
  Florence (Tuscany)
  Mantua (Lombardy)
  Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
  Naples (Campania)
  Pienza (Tuscany)
  Pisa (Tuscany)
  Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)
  Rome (Lazio)
  San Gimignano (Tuscany)
  Siena (Tuscany)
  Siracusa (Sicily)
  Urbino (Marche)
  Venice (Veneto)
  Verona (Veneto)
  Vicenza (Veneto)
  I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest.
  Other notable old towns include:
  Northern Italy
  Bassano del Grappa (Veneto)
  Bergamo (Lombardy)
  Bologna (Emilia-Romagna)
  Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige)
  Castelfranco Veneto (Veneto)
  Chioggia (Veneto)
  Cittadella (Veneto)
  Milano (Lombardy)
  Genoa (Liguria)
  Palmanova (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
  Pavia (Lombardy)
  Polcenigo (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  Trento (Trentino-Alto Adige)
  Treviso (Veneto)
  Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  Turin (Piedmont)
  Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  Vittorio Veneto (Veneto)
  Central Italy
  Ancona (Marche)
  Arezzo (Tuscany)
  Camerino (Marche)
  Colle di Val d'Elsa (Tuscany)
  Gubbio (Umbria)
  Loreto (Marche)
  Lucca (Tuscany)
  Massa Marittima (Tuscany)
  Montalcino (Tuscany)
  Montefiascone (Lazio)
  Monteleone di Spoleto (Umbria)
  Montepulciano (Tuscany)
  Orvieto (Umbria)
  Perugia (Umbria)
  Tivoli (Lazio)
  Viterbo (Lazio)
  Volterra(Tuscany)
  Southern Italy
  Bari (Puglia)
  Catania (Sicily)
  Lecce (Puglia)
  Palermo (Sicily)
caption: Skyline of Assisi
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