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Provincial capital of south-eastern Piedmont. Its landmark is the Cittadella, an 18th-century fortress the municipality describes as one of the largest permanent fortifications in Europe from that period. The city hosts the Alessandria-Asti Chamber of Commerce and the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo university hospital.

Provincial capital with a medieval Gothic centre, marked by the surviving towers of the roughly seventy ancient ones. The municipal tourism portal presents it through the Palio, "the oldest in Italy" with its first record in 1275, and the September season with the Douja d'Or and the Festival delle Sagre. An authentic provincial atmosphere, halfway between Turin and the Ligurian coast.

Provincial capital at the foot of the Alps in northern Piedmont. According to the municipality, UNESCO recognised it as a "Creative City" for its fabrics. It has ten neighbourhood councils, including the Piazzo, and hosts a Politecnico di Torino technology hub; the ASL hospital is in Ponderano.

Provincial capital on a plateau between the Stura river and the Gesso stream, from which it takes its name (cuneo means wedge). Pedestrian via Roma, the Tuesday market in piazza Galimberti, the Gesso and Stura river park all around: the tourist board presents it as the "green capital of Piedmont". It hosts University of Turin courses and is organised in 22 neighbourhoods and hamlets.

A city of the Piedmont plain with a small, quiet historic centre dominated by Alessandro Antonelli's dome of San Gaudenzio, about 121 metres high. It is one of the three poles of the University of Eastern Piedmont, with the School of Medicine and the clinics of the Maggiore della Carità hospital. From mid-September to mid-April the regional anti-smog traffic-light system applies.

Capital of Piedmont and Italy's fourth city by population, Turin is an industrial and university city with a grid plan, arcades and two large universities. It costs less than Milan, has a single metro line but a good tram and suburban rail network, and foggy winters with often polluted air.

Provincial capital, seat of the rectorate and of several facilities of the University of Eastern Piedmont. The historic centre is a limited-traffic zone active every day; main sights include the Basilica of Sant'Andrea, the Cathedral of S. Eusebio, the 1878 synagogue and the ARCA exhibition space. The ATL places it in the "Vercelli and the Rice Lands" area.

Capital of the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, on Lake Maggiore. According to the Distretto dei Laghi the city was created in 1939 by merging the municipalities of Intra and Pallanza; Suna is the best-preserved hamlet. The municipality is based at Palazzo Civico, in piazza Garibaldi 15.

Italy's smallest regional capital: a Roman and Alpine town of just over thirty thousand people on the floor of the Dora Baltea valley, Italian-French bilingual by statute. It lives on regional administration, health, trade and tourism; it has a small university and mountains within reach of a cable car.

A Lombard city in two parts: Città Alta, on the hill, enclosed by Venetian walls that have been UNESCO World Heritage since 2017, and the modern city below, linked by a funicular. A state university since 1992 with sites in Città Alta, via dei Caniana and Dalmine; the TEB tram to Albino and a second line being prepared; Orio al Serio airport ten minutes by bus from the station.

A Lombard city with an automatic metro since 2013 and a tram planned for 2030. The Santa Giulia complex and the Brixia archaeological park have been UNESCO World Heritage since 2011 and belong to the Fondazione Brescia Musei system. The state university, founded in 1982, was created for the area's business and healthcare strengths.

A lakeside city and the birthplace of Alessandro Volta (born 1745). The cathedral has a late Gothic façade, the Tempio Voltiano has honoured the scientist since 1928, and Como hosts a campus of the Università dell'Insubria. The economy is tied to the textile district, with silk as its historic core.

A city on the Lombard plain known worldwide for violin making: the traditional craftsmanship of Cremonese violins has been on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list since 2012. The Piazza del Comune is dominated by the Torrazzo, a 112-metre bell tower with an astronomical clock, and the cathedral; the city hosts a campus of the Politecnico di Milano.

A provincial capital in Lombardy and the seat of the Province of Lecco. Alessandro Manzoni is the cultural thread: the Comune runs a five-site urban museum system, including Villa Manzoni, and promotes the festival «Lecco Città dei Promessi Sposi», in its 18th edition in 2026. A regional campus of the Politecnico di Milano is based in the city.

A provincial capital in Lombardy with piazza della Vittoria, the centre's «piazza Maggiore» since the communal era, the Romanesque cathedral and the Lodi maiolica ware. Agri-food weighs on the local economy, with dairy exports in 2025 the highest among the provinces of Milan, Monza Brianza and Lodi; since 2018 the University of Milan's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has been based in the city.

A city of Roman origin renewed and extended by the Gonzaga in the 15th and 16th centuries, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008 together with Sabbioneta as testimony to Renaissance town planning. The Palazzo Ducale, the Gonzaga residence with Mantegna's Camera Picta, dominates Piazza Sordello; the city hosts a campus of the Politecnico di Milano.

Capital of Lombardy and Italy's economic capital: finance, fashion, design, media, pharmaceuticals and the country's highest concentration of universities. It is Italy's most expensive city for housing, the best served by public transport and one of the worst for air quality. Life is good if your income matches.

The Lombard city of the Cathedral with the Iron Crown and Theodelinda's chapel, of Piermarini's Royal Villa and of a 720-hectare walled park that contains the national motor-racing circuit of 1922. Transport is integrated with Milan in the STIBM fare system; ten neighbourhood Civic Centres.

A city on the Ticino, once capital of the Lombard Kingdom and then of the Kingdom of Italy, with one of Europe's oldest universities (Studium Generale of 1361) and its historic colleges. It hosts the Policlinico San Matteo; the Certosa is a few kilometres away. The Ponte Coperto links the centre to Borgo Ticino.

Capital of the province of Sondrio, in alpine Lombardy. The Comune is based in Palazzo Pretorio; Castello Masegra houses CAST, the Castle of Mountain Stories, and the MuMiVV minerals museum, Palazzo Sassi De Lavizzari houses the Valtellina museum MVSA, and there is the Teatro Sociale. The city is the seat of ATS della Montagna and of the bus company STPS.

A Lombard city in the Lake Varese area, with the Sacro Monte, one of the UNESCO sites of the province, and the Via Francisca del Lucomagno walking route crossing the centre. It is the legal seat of the Università dell'Insubria and home to the Ospedale di Circolo, the centre of the ASST Sette Laghi network.

Capital of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, a bilingual city where public offices must guarantee the use of German and Italian. Working in the public sector requires the bilingualism certificate. Home of the trilingual Free University (1997), the NOI Techpark and the Ötzi museum.

Capital of the autonomous Province and of the Trentino-South Tyrol region, Trento is a mid-sized city in the Adige valley, prosperous thanks to its autonomy, with a quality university and a research hub (FBK). Public services among the best in Italy, housing costs high for its size, mountains and Lake Garda half an hour away.

Belluno is the legal seat of ULSS 1 Dolomiti (via Feltre 57) and of the Belluno Hospital, has an employment centre in via Feltre 109 and an office of the Treviso-Belluno | Dolomiti Chamber of Commerce in piazza Santo Stefano. The Comune runs a tourist office in piazza del Duomo.