Northwest Italy consists of four of Italy's regions: Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Valle d'Aosta. To the east lies Northeast Italy, to the north is Switzerland and to the west France. The Italian Lake District is mostly in Northwest Italy.

Regions

Aosta Valley a small region in the Alps

Liguria the coastal region

Lombardy the eastern part of Northwest Italy

Piedmont the western region, containing most of Italy's border with France

Cities

• 1 Aosta
• 2 Bergamo – a fairytale pastel-coloured city perched atop a hillside, and the gate to Bergamo Alps.
• 3 Brescia – a major industrial powerhouse since the Ancient Roman times, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 4 Genoa
• 5 La Spezia
• 6 Mantua (Italian: Mantova) – the Ducal Palace has a cycle of frescoes by Mantegna that no art lover should miss. This city is also an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 7 Milan (Italian: Milano) – shares with Paris the title of fashion capital of the world, and is Italy's second city and the main Italian economic centre.
• 8 San Remo
• 9 Turin (Italian: Torino) – After the Italian unification, on 17th March 1861, Turin was the first capital of modern Italy.
• 10 Courmayeur

Other destinations

• 1 Cinque Terre
• 2 Lake Como
• 3 Lake Maggiore

See

• The Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy – a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of nine groups of holy mountains featuring chapels and other Christian religious sites.

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• Northeast Italy