Italians have been building on cliffs since the Etruscans. The views are the reward for the stairs.
Plan a trip here →1. Positano — the Amalfi vertical icon. 2. Tropea — Calabria's cliff above turquoise. 3. Civita di Bagnoregio — the crumbling tufa island. 4. Polignano a Mare — Puglia's cliff-beach combo. 5. Orvieto — volcanic tuff plateau, Signorelli frescoes. 6. Pitigliano — tufa cliff, buildings and rock indistinguishable. 7. Castelmezzano — wedged into Lucanian Dolomites. 8. Scilla — Calabrian houses growing from the sea cliff. 9. Calcata, Lazio — artist colony on a tufa spire. 10. Pizzo, Calabria — tartufo gelato birthplace, castle where Murat was shot.
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