Usignola / Lakeside & Coastal Villages
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Lakeside & Coastal Villages

Villages on the edge of open water — a lake, an estuary, or the sea.

4 villages

No. 009

Saint-Suliac

Brittany, France
Saint-Suliac sits on the Rance estuary, its slate-roofed houses arranged around a small fishing harbor.
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
No. 010

Orta San Giulio

Piedmont, Italy
Orta San Giulio occupies a promontory on Lake Orta, facing the small Isola San Giulio just offshore.
I Borghi più belli d'Italia
No. 019

Castiglione del Lago

Umbria, Italy
Castiglione del Lago occupies a promontory surrounded on three sides by Lake Trasimeno.
I Borghi più belli d'Italia
No. 026

Comillas

Cantabria, Spain
Comillas pairs a medieval core with an unusual concentration of late-19th-century modernist architecture, including El Capricho, one of only a handful of buildings Antoni Gaudí completed outside Catalonia.
Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España