Italian Hilltowns

This is the first edition cover flap, printed in 1979...These remarkable photographs document what may be the most influential towns in history - towns that have beguiled travelers, architects and painters for centuries - towns so humane they are the standard against which other cities in the modern world are now measured. This book covers all regions of Italy with particular emphasis on little-known places where we can still glimpse a way of life and an atmosphere hardly changed in hundreds of years.