The white marble cathedral of Pisa on a green lawn, the Leaning Tower behind it, with crowds in front

Pisa province

Villages of Tuscany Pisa province

The towers and rooftops of San Miniato along a hilltop ridge
San Miniato

Pisa province

Most people know Pisa for one tower, and the Piazza dei Miracoli really is as good as they say. But the province reaches a long way inland.

37 towns · 476 villages · 2 town guides

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A small red van filling a narrow street of old houses in Vicopisano
A van in a narrow street in Vicopisano, photographed December 2017

Along the Arno are Vicopisano, with its medieval towers, and San Miniato, famous for its white truffle fair every November. South-east are the Valdera hills, where Lajatico hosts Andrea Bocelli’s open-air Teatro del Silenzio near his home village, and Peccioli and Palaia sit on their ridges. Further south, Volterra stands high on its plateau, an Etruscan city still known for carving alabaster. Beyond it, around Larderello in the comune of Pomarance, steam pours out of the ground, and in 1904 it was the first place in the world to make electricity from geothermal power.

On the coast, the San Rossore park runs between Pisa and the sea, with Marina di Pisa and Tirrenia for the beaches.

There are 37 towns (comuni) here, with 476 villages and hamlets between them. Each town has its own card below: open it to see its villages, in alphabetical order. The lists come from my own records, so the odd tiny hamlet may be missing.

The towers and rooftops of San Miniato along a hilltop ridge
San Miniato
The Palazzo Gotti, a pale stone palazzo in the centre of Lajatico
Lajatico · Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

37 towns 476 villages 2 town guides

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Bientina Buti Calci Calcinaia Capannoli Casale Marittimo Casciana Terme Lari Cascina Castelfranco di Sotto Castellina Marittima Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina Chianni Crespina Lorenzana Fauglia Guardistallo Lajatico Montecatini Val di Cecina Montescudaio Monteverdi Marittimo Montopoli in Val d’Arno Orciano Pisano Palaia Peccioli Pisa Pomarance Ponsacco Pontedera Riparbella San Giuliano Terme San Miniato Santa Croce sull’Arno Santa Luce Santa Maria a Monte Terricciola Vecchiano Vicopisano Volterra

Bientina across flat fields, with its bell towerPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bientina

6 villages

Villages (6)

Bosco di Piccione, Caccialupi, Case Puntone, Puntone, Quattro Strade, Santa Colomba

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Buti below a rounded wooded hillPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Buti

3 villages

Villages (3)

Cascine – La Croce, Castel di Nocco, La Croce

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Rooftops of Calci seen from abovePhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Calci

10 villages

Villages (10)

Castelmaggiore, Crespignano, Culminezza, Gabella, La Gabella, Montemagno, Pontegrande, San Donato, Tiricella, Villa

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Calcinaia’s houses along the bank of the Arno, with hills behindPhoto: Lucarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Calcinaia

8 villages

Villages (8)

Case Bianche, Case Sardina, Chiesino – Allori, Chiesino – Collodi, Fornacette, La Botte, Ponte Alla Navetta, San Teodoro – Cignoni

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Capannoli in the valley among fields and treesPhoto: Mongolo1984, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Capannoli

3 villages

Villages (3)

Pian di Roglio, San Pietro Belvedere, Santissima Annunziata

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Casale Marittimo on its hilltop above green fieldsPhoto: Mongolo1984, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Casale Marittimo

Town

I have no separate villages on record for this one: the town itself is the place to visit.

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Casciana Terme spread among the hillsPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Casciana Terme Lari

30 villages · formerly Casciana Terme and Lari

Casciana Terme villages (6)

Ceppato, Collemontanino, La Muraiola, Le Cave, Parlascio, Sant’Ermo

Lari villages (24)

Aiale, Boschi, Capannile, Casciana Alta, Cevoli, Colle, Gramugnana, I Princi, I Visconti, La Capannina, La Turchia, Lavaiano, Le Casine, Le Casine – Perignano – Spinelli, Le Cave – San Frediano, Le Selve, Orceto, Perignano, Quattro Strade, Querceto, Ripoli, San Ruffino, Spinelli, Usigliano

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The striped stone front of the church of Santa Maria in CascinaPhoto: Attilakk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cascina

27 villages

Villages (27)

Arnaccio, Casciavola, Case di Gosto, Chiesanuova, Garzella, La Gronchia, Laiano, Latignano, Marciana, Montione, Musigliano, Navacchio, Pardossi, Pettori, Podere Pratale, Ripoli, San Benedetto a Settimo, San Casciano, San Frediano a Settimo, San Giorgio, San Lorenzo a Pagnatico, San Lorenzo alle Corti, San Sisto al Pino, Titignano, Vicarello, Visignano, Zambra

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The brick and plaster side of the Collegiata in Castelfranco di SottoPhoto: sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Castelfranco di Sotto

27 villages

Villages (27)

Bacarino, Camillini, Cavallini, Chimenti, Ciani, Corte Basilio, Corte Brogi, Corte Dori, Corte Mennino, Corte Nardi, Corte Pelato, Fiorindi, Frediano, Galleno, Lelli, Melai, Montanelli, Nencettino, Orentano, Pereta, Poggetto, Rossi, Seri, Signorini, Staffoli, Urbano, Villa Campanile

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Castellina Marittima on a green hillside below wooded hillsPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Castellina Marittima

15 villages

Villages (15)

Badie, Badione, Ceppo Nero, Farsiche, Fornaci, Lame, Le Badie, Le Conche, Malandrone, Papacqua, Poggio al Sasso, Pontratico, San Girolamo, Spicciano, Terriccio

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Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina on a wooded hillsidePhoto: Peter von Wesendonk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina

6 villages

Villages (6)

Bagno al Morbo, Lagoni, Lagoni del Sasso, Leccia, Montecastelli Pisano, Sasso Pisano

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The church and houses of Chianni lit by the evening sunPhoto: Eric Perrone. Original uploader was Deep also it at it.wikipedia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Chianni

9 villages

Villages (9)

Garetto, I Gulfi, La Cascina, La Fornace, La Pescaia, La Pieve, Pieve di Rivalto, Rivalto, Sassi Bianchi

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Lorenzana on a low hill beyond a fieldPhoto: Lucarelli, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Crespina Lorenzana

16 villages · formerly Crespina and Lorenzana

Crespina villages (11)

Botteghino, Cenaia, Ceppaiano, Lavoria, Le Lame, Migliano, Poggio al Tesoro, Siberia, Tripalle, Villa Il Poggio, Volpaia

Lorenzana villages (5)

I Greppioli, Laura, Roncione, Tremoleto, Vicchio

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Fauglia along its ridge, seen through treesPhoto: Lucarelli, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fauglia

12 villages

Villages (12)

Acciaiolo, Casabianca, Ferrucci, Fondo La Grotta, Il Palazzaccio, Luciana, Poggio Pallone, Pontita, Pugnano, San Regolo, Valtriano, Villa Petri

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Guardistallo along the top of a wooded hillPhoto: Tyrrhenus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Guardistallo

2 villages

Villages (2)

Casino di Terra, Valserena

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The Palazzo Gotti, a pale stone palazzo in the centre of LajaticoPhoto: Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lajatico

3 villages

Villages (3)

La Sterza, Orciatico, San Giovanni

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Montecatini Val di Cecina with its square towerPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Montecatini Val di Cecina

11 villages

Villages (11)

Casaglia, Casino di Terra, Castello di Querceto, Gabella, La Miniera, Ligia, Miemo, Ponteginori, Querceto, San Michele, Sassa

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Montescudaio on its hillPhoto: Tyrrhenus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Montescudaio

5 villages

Villages (5)

Bandello, Casagiustri, Fiorino, Poggio Gagliardo, Rio del Sole

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Monteverdi Marittimo on its hill, with mountains behindPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Monteverdi Marittimo

1 village

Villages (1)

Canneto

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The arch and tower of Castruccio Castracani in Montopoli in Val d’ArnoPhoto: Bucciano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Montopoli in Val d’Arno

14 villages

Villages (14)

Angelica, Capanne, Castel del Bosco, Fontanelle, Gasparrino, Marti, Masoria, Mazzana, Montopoli, Musciano, San Lorenzo, San Romano, Sant’Andrea alle Fornaci, Varramista

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Ploughed fields in the hills around Orciano PisanoPhoto: No machine-readable author provided. Lucarelli assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Orciano Pisano

2 villages

Villages (2)

Convento, Pieve Vecchia

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The civic tower of Palaia at the end of a streetPhoto: Eric Perrone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Palaia

19 villages

Villages (19)

Alica, Alica – Baccanella, Baccanella, Chiecinella, Chiesina Vallicella, Colleoli, Forcoli, Gello, La Palazzina, Montacchita, Montanelli, Montechiari, Montefoscoli, Partino, San Gervasio, San Jacopo, Sant’Andrea, Toiano, Villa Saletta

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Peccioli on its hill above the green Era valleyPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Peccioli

8 villages

Villages (8)

Cedri, Fabbrica, Ghizzano, La Bianca, Legoli, Libbiano, Montecchio, Montelopio

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Pisa

32 villages

From my blog: Pisa or Florence airport to Lucca, Pescia and Pistoia

Villages (32)

Argine, Azienda Agricola Tirrenia, Barbaricina, Cascine Nuove, Cascine Vecchie, Case Guidotti, Coltano, Coltano Radio, Corte Vivaldi, Cresam, Fagiana Sud, La Bigattiera, La Punta, La Vettola, Luicchio, Maggiore Oratoio, Marina di Pisa, Marina di Pisa – Tirrenia – Calambrone, Palazzi, Pierdicino, Porta a Mare, Pratale, Putignano Pisano, San Biagio, San Iacopo, San Piero a Grado, Sant’Ermete, Scuderie Nuove, Stagno, Tirrenia, Tombolo, Villa Filippi

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Piazza De Larderel in Pomarance, with the bell tower of San GiovanniPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pomarance

10 villages

Villages (10)

Fabbriche, Lagoni Rossi, Larderello, Libbiano, Lustignano, Micciano, Montecerboli, Montegemoli, San Dalmazio, Serrazzano

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Rooftops of Ponsacco seen from abovePhoto: Garrison, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ponsacco

1 village

Villages (1)

Giardino

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A bridge over the river Era in Pontedera, with houses above the grassy bankPhoto: Taccolamat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pontedera

18 villages

Villages (18)

Chiesa di Gello, Gello di Lavaiano, Granchi, I Fabbri, Il Romito, La Borra, La Cava, La Pineta, La Porzia, La Rotta, Le Cantine, Le Vallicelle, Magazzini, Montecastello, Pardossi, Santa Lucia, Tiro a Segno, Treggiaia

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Rooftops and the church tower of Riparbella among treesPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Riparbella

3 villages

Villages (3)

Apparita, Fagiolaia, San Martino

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Piazza Italia and the thermal baths building in San Giuliano TermePhoto: Roberto Narducci, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

San Giuliano Terme

47 villages

Villages (47)

Agnano, Arena, Arena – Metato, Asciano, Campo, Cardeta, Carraia, Casini, Colognole, Farneta, Gello, Ghezzano, La Bugnotta, La Casina, La Fattoria, Le Caselline, Le Maggiola, Legnaia, Madonna dell’Acqua, Mezzana, Mezzana Colignola Ghezzano, Molina di Quosa, Molina – Rigoli – Pappiana, Monsello, Orzignano, Palanche, Palazzetto, Pappiana, Patrignone, Piaggia I, Poggio Vecchio, Poggionuovo, Pontasserchio, Ponte d’Oro, Prata I, Prata II, Puccini, Pugnano, Puntata, Rigoli, Ripafratta, San Iacopo, San Martino a Ulmiano, Sant’Andrea in Pescaiola, Simonelli, Tabaccaia, Tre Ponti

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The towers and rooftops of San Miniato along a hilltop ridge

San Miniato

53 villages

Villages (53)

Alberaccio, Balconevisi, Borghigiana, Bottega Genovini, Bucciano, Calenzano I, Calenzano II, Calpetardo, Canneto, Casastrada, Case Altini, Case Nuove di Roffia, Casotti di Moriolo, Catena, Cigoli, Corazzano, Cusignano, Fondo Scesa Balconevisi, Fornacino, Gargozzi, Genovini, Giovanastra, Guerrazzi, Isola, La Dogaia, La Scala, La Serra, Le Case, Le Colonne, Le Tombe, Mezzopiano, Molino d’Egola, Molino Vecchio, Montenaso, Montorzo, Moriolo, Ontraino, Palagetto, Palagio, Palazzo Torto, Parrino, Piano di Moriolo, Poggio a Isola, Ponte a Egola, Ponte a Elsa, Roffia, San Donato, San Miniato Basso, San Quintino, San Romano, Sant’Angelo, Scala, Stibbio

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A quiet square of pastel houses in Santa Croce sull’ArnoPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Santa Croce sull’Arno

12 villages

Villages (12)

Baldacci, Bocciardi, Carmignano, Casoni, Castellare, Cerri, Ghimenti, Pieraccioni, Sartini, Staffoli, Tramontano, Usciana

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The houses and church of Santa Luce under a cloudy skyPhoto: Mongolo1984, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Santa Luce

4 villages

Villages (4)

Il Poggio, Pastina, Pieve di Santa Luce, Pomaia

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Santa Maria a Monte on its hill under a blue skyPhoto: Lucarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Santa Maria a Monte

10 villages

Villages (10)

Cerretti, Cinque Case, Falorni, Melone, Montecalvoli, Pagnaccio, Pregiuntino, San Donato, Tavolaia, Villa Fantoni

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Terricciola on its hill above the woodsPhoto: LigaDue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Terricciola

12 villages

Villages (12)

Aia Bianca di Sopra, Aia Bianca di Sotto, Casanova, Chientina, La Rosa, La Sterza, Le Case, Morrona, Selvatelle, Soiana, Soianella, Stibbiolo

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The stone tower of the Rosaiolo castle at Avane, on a scrubby hillsidePhoto: Daniele Napolitano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vecchiano

11 villages

Villages (11)

Acquedotti, Avane, Casa delle Guardie, Case Il Troncolo, Filettole, La Presa, Laiano, Malaventre, Migliarino, Nodica, Pratavecchie

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A small red van in a lane of old ochre and orange houses in Vicopisano

Vicopisano

11 villages

Villages (11)

Caprona, Caselle, Cucigliana, Guerrazzi, Il Tinto, Lugnano, Noce, Novi, San Giovanni Alla Vena, Sant’Annunziata, Uliveto Terme

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I’m adding proper pages for the towns and villages bit by bit, so do pop back. For the rest of Tuscany, head back to Villages of Tuscany.

Header photo: The cathedral and the Tower in the Piazza dei Miracoli (photo: Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).