Militello in Val di Catania is the most beautiful village in Italy of 2025. Located in the Etna province, with its 6600 inhabitants it is 45 km from the provincial capital and 38 km from Caltagirone. Sicily, therefore, triumphs in the Borgo dei Borgi review aired tonight on Raitre. Militello in Val di Catania, however, It is the country where Pippo Baudo was born, where the famous conductor (to whom one of the main streets of the country is dedicated) married among other things Katia Ricciarelli in 1986.
In its historic center, 1600 inhabitants live. It was presented by the dancer Giusy Garrasi and by the student Niccolò Vaccaro between history, nature and traditions. With its 21 churches, it is part of the UNESCO heritage of the Val di Noto between baroque influences and beyond. There is also an all -female church, that of the Madonna della Catena. And then the monastery of San Benedetto. There is no shortage of typical products such as the carpet Milithellese.
Calabria at the foot of the podium: Aieta in fourth place
In fourth place Calabria (first in 2021 with Tropea) with Aieta, the small and characteristic center of the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino in the province of Cosenza. Among others, to present the characteristics of the village in the program aired on Raitre was the young student Rebecca Maiorana. Aieta famous for her churches (above all the matrix church of Santa Maria della Visitation) and for Palazzo Spinelli.
The jurors and other villages in the race
Three exceptional jurors were the travel companions of Camilla Raznovich in this path culminating with the episode aired tonight on Raitre: Alberta Campitelli, historian of the gardens and member of the Superior Council for cultural and landscape heritage at the Ministry of Culture, which was in Valeggio sul Mincio, to discover the blooms and wonders of the Sigurtà garden park, one of the most beautiful gardens of the world; The biologist and scientific popularizer Barbara Gallavotti, who was in Val Trebbia, in the Piacenza hills, to tell the link with the territory and the fascinating story of Bobbio, winner of ‘The village of the Borghi 2019’; The historian and art popularizer Jacopo Veneziani, who instead was at the banks of Lake Garda, between the breathtaking views of Sirmione and the Vittoriale of the Italians.
The other villages in the race were: ALLIE (Piedmont), Agnone (Molise), Ala (Trentino Alto-Adige), Buggerru (Sardinia), Corenno Plinio (Lombardy), Deiva Marina (Liguria), Grado (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Ischitella (Puglia), Lazise (Veneto), Maiori (Campania), Montalbano Ionian (Basilicata), Montechiarugolo (Emilia-Romagna), Nus (Valle d’Aosta), Penne (Abruzzo), San Gemini (Umbria), Scarperia (Tuscany), Sirolo (Marche), Vignanello (Lazio).