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Regions, Provinces and Communes in Italy

The mission of this website is to help in identifying the Italian region, province, commune and the correct spelling of places and surnames in Italy, as well as to give basic information on Italian regions, provinces, localities, their history, details on hotels, agritourism, B&B's, holiday homes and other accomodation, to help you plan a perfect holiday.
map of Italy Aosta Valley Liguria Piedmont Lombardy Trentino South Tyrol Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Emilia Romagna Umbria Marches Abruzzi Tuscany Latium Molise Sardinia Sicily Basilicata Apulia Campania Calabria
Italy is presently divided into 20 Regions, subdivided into 110 Provinces (including the 3 newly established and Aosta which is not actually a province), each Province is divided into municipalities (over 8000), which in their turn can consist of frazioni (hamlets or districts) for more than 35,000 localities. Choose a region from the map, or browse through the list of provinces in Italy.
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List of Italian Provinces: ABRUZZI: Chieti, L'Aquila, Pescara, Teramo || AOSTA VALLEY: Aosta || APULIA: Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Brindisi, Foggia, Lecce, Taranto || BASILICATA: Matera, Potenza || CALABRIA: Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Vibo Valentia || CAMPANIA: Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Naples, Salerno || EMILIA ROMAGNA: Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini || FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA: Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste, Udine || LATIUM: Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Rome, Viterbo || LIGURIA: Genoa, Imperia, La Spezia, Savona || LOMBARDY: Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantua, Milan, Monza-Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese || MARCHE: Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Fermo, Macerata, Pesaro-Urbino || MOLISE: Campobasso, Isernia || PIEDMONT: Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Verbania, Vercelli || SARDINIA: Cagliari, Carbonia Iglesias, Medio Campidano, Nuoro, Ogliastra, Olbia Tempio, Oristano, Sassari || SICILY: Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani || TUSCANY: Arezzo, Firenze, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Siena, || TRENTINO SOUTH TYROL: Bolzano, Trento, || UMBRIA: Perugia, Terni || VENETO: Belluno , Padova, Rovigo, Treviso, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza
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freccinaOfficial websites of Italian communes, which usually offer a wealth of news, latest and next events, history and images of the place, often contact details for the local civil records office and the municipal administration
freccinaOfficial websites of Regions and Provinces: a good starting point to increase knowledge of the specific areas
freccinaItalian Zip codes (Postal codes) for all localities: alphabetical lists of localities with zip code and province to help in sending to correctly normalized addresses
genealogy help:
freccinaGenealogy Research: A tutorial about Italian genealogical resources, how to research in civil records, parish books, notary and land records; the law of Italian citizenship, ethymology of surnames, lists of family names in Italian villages, how to use the white pages to find connections ...
freccinaCensus of 1742: to find if your ancestral place in the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was included
freccinaSurname distribution: Check the correct Italian spelling and frequency of surnames in the present villages
freccinaOrigin of Surnames: A work in progress, ethymology of many Italian surnames, ordered A-Z.
freccinaMessage Forums: Read and reply to the messages divided by Province or leave your own postings, over 70,000 messages on genealogy, family, ancestors, places, posted since 1998.
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