The Balconies of Italy: Six Foothill Towns You Should Get to Know 

Italy is bursting at the seams with charming hilltop towns and languishing seaside villages. Lesser-known and often overlooked, foothill towns spill down the lower slopes of some of the country’s most dramatic mountain ranges, offering sweeping vistas as far as the eye can see. (And many times, without the crowds such vistas tend to attract.) 

While Italy's three main mountain ranges of the Alps, Apennines and Dolomites dominate travelers' imaginations, the minor mountain