I'm minded (as someone might have said) to visit some slow cities (less than 50000 pop...?) in the coming months. Would anyone know where I can find a list (and preferably a map) of such. I've visited the slow food site but can't find such a simple thing.

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I'm minded (as someone might have said) to visit some slow cites (less than 50000 pop...?) in the coming months.

Don't you mean "small cities"?

Naples might have that at Ferragosto and only then.

This is the website for Cittàslow.

Thanks for posting that link - I was recently trying to explain the slow cities to someone, and this will help.

I thought that being a slow city was more than just population size... ? I thought it also had to do with way of life...
...Here is an article in English talking a bit about it...

"The Slow City manifesto contains over 50 pledges, such as cutting noise pollution and traffic, increasing green spaces and pedestrian zones, backing farmers who produce local delicacies and the shops and restaurants that sell them, and preserving local aesthetic traditions."

The ones I can think of off the top of my head are Orvieto, Trevi, Todi...

Slow cities qualify by having a population of less than 50000 as I understand it. Of course there are other necessary qualities.

I would rather say that a population of over 50,000 people disqualifies a city from being a slow city, not the opposite. Alsol, beware that the requisites require that the city enacted policies to, for instnace, reduce the pollution, but it does not require the cities to be non polluted. In other words, there are no maximum parameters of pollution (for instance, again) for a city to become a slow city, but there is the requisite that the city be doing something to reduce the pollution. Another example, one of the requisites is that there is a URP (public relation open to citiszens) service, not that it actually works. For instance, I have been trying to call the URP of my local ASL, health district, for the whole morning yesterday: nobody ever answered the phone (about one call every 3-4 minutes)k but I found the line to be busy several times, which means that there was someone at the office that was talking to some other person over the phone: and yet, the ASL does have an URP!

Anyway, here's a more updated page.

yup! That's right...

If you read here you'll find that having a population of less than 50,000 is a requirement for even being considered.

But just having a population under 50,000 doesn't automatically make it a slow city. (Were that the case, there would be a lot more slow cities than there currently are.) The population size is one of several qualifications.

I heartily recommend a visit to Orvieto if you do go to a Slow City... it's the perfect place for a Sunday afternoon/evening walk, and you'll eat well there. What part of Italy are you in, Britaly?

I vote for...Cesenatico...even though it is not on the list...

Yes, my wording was rather cumbersome . Of course there are other requirements to satisfy, as subsequent posters state.

I only see one town in Puglia on the list, Trani. I would think most Puglia towns satisfy this!
Wait until the people from Martina Franca find out they aren't on the list!

I almost fell out of my chair laughing as I just noticed that Martina Franca is on the list "to be certified"... Puzzo sotto naso, the whole town.

Jeffo