Haunted Places in Italy (89)

Explore 89 haunted places in Italy — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Catacombe dei Cappuccini Palermo, Sicilien 8,000 mummified bodies in Palermo's Capuchin catacombs.
• 👻 Volterra Asylum Toscana Fernando Nannetti carved his cosmic account 70 metres along the Ferri pavilion wall — and around that pavilion the cries are still heard.
• 👻 Palazzo Cenci Rom On the night of 11 September, Beatrice Cenci climbs the stairs of her childhood home — carrying her severed head in her hands. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Villa Stuart Rom Emmeline walled her lover into the cellar and left a hole to stroke his fingers — that is where Lord Allen's skeleton was found.
• 🏗️ Poveglia Island Veneto, Venedig The plague quarantine island in the Venetian Lagoon — later a geriatric hospital, abandoned since 1968.
• 🏗️ Balestrino Ligurien Ghost village on a mountainside in Liguria — abandoned after the 1887 earthquake.
• 👻 Consonno Lombardiet Italy's Las Vegas — a dream amusement town abandoned after a landslide in 1976.
• 🏗️ Craco Basilicata Italian ghost town abandoned after landslides — used as a film location for The Passion of the Christ and 007.
• 👻 Ca' Dario Veneto The palace on the Grand Canal is said to curse its owners - from Marietta Dario to modern millionaires, death and ruin have followed. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Castello della Rotta Piemonte A knight with an iron cross around his neck is said to ride through the castle where his skeleton was unearthed beside his horse. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Carini Castle Sicilien Every 4 December, Baroness Laura Lanza's bloody handprint is said to reappear on the wall of the room where she was murdered in 1563. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Fumone Castle Lazio Three-year-old marquis Francesco Longhi, poisoned by his own sisters, is said to still play in the castle halls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Norman-Swabian Castle of Gioia del Colle Apulien Bianca Lancia, locked in the tower by Frederick II, is said to still appear in the castle where legend says she took her own life. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Gropparello Castle Emilia-Romagna Rosania Fulgosio, walled up alive by her jealous husband in the 13th century, is said to still scream for justice. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Montebello Castle Emilia-Romagna Every fifth year at the summer solstice, the albino girl Azzurrina is said to weep in the castle vaults. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Mussomeli Castle Sicilien Three sisters walled in by their brother starved to death in the castle - in 'the chamber of the three women' they are said to lament still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Malaspina Castle, Bosa Sardinien The marchioness who bled to death after her husband cut off her fingers is said to still drift along the walls of Bosa's castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Mombello Abandoned Asylum Lombardia In the vast abandoned asylum of Limbiate, a doctor is said to have embalmed patients who were not yet dead.
• 🏰 Orsini-Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano Rom Legend says Isabella de' Medici was strangled in the bedchamber here — and she has walked the lakeshore in sixteenth-century dress ever since. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Galeria Antica Rom The village emptied after a run of unexplained deaths. Once a year hoofbeats return: the minstrel Senz'affanni rides in on a white horse.
• 👻 Doctor Tromba's House, Via del Governo Vecchio 57 Rom On 11 May 1861 mattresses, plates and cutlery flew out of Doctor Tromba's house — and dissolved in mid-air before reaching the street.
• 🚇 Muro Torto Rom Two carbonari walk the wall with their heads under their arms: Angelo Targhini and Leonida Montanari, beheaded without confession.
• 👻 Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo Rom In the room facing the inner courtyard, mother-in-law Livia is said to have been hanged on Pompeo Colonna's orders — and the noises began. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Ponte Sant'Angelo (Bridge of Angels) Rom At first light the executioner Mastro Titta crosses the bridge in his scarlet cloak and offers passers-by a pinch of snuff — as he always did.
• 👻 Ponte Sisto Rom On 7 January a black carriage tears across the bridge: the coachman has no head, and Donna Olimpia rides inside with the pope's gold.
• 👻 Salita dei Borgia Rom The street was called Vicus Sceleratus. A chariot is heard racing past that nobody can see, and bloody wheel tracks are said to linger.
• ⛪ Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo Rom Demons in the shape of crows gathered in the walnut tree on Nero's grave — so the pope felled it and built the church on the spot.
• 👻 Vicolo delle Grotte Rom Every night Cagliostro calls for the wife who denounced him — and a shawled woman vanishes down the alley with a single scream.
• 🚇 Triora Ligurien By the ruined quarter of La Cabotina the spirits of the accused witches are said to linger — here lived the women blamed for the famine of 1587.
• 👻 Villa De Vecchi Lombardiet In the abandoned 'Red House' of Valsassina, a smashed piano is said to play 19th-century music at night.
• 👻 Villa Magnoni Emilia-Romagna The witch of Cona is said to have shouted her curse from the villa's window – and three of the youths who heard it died that same night.
• 🏗️ Pentedattilo Kalabrien Ghost town in Calabria — legend of a wedding massacre in 1686.
• 👻 Bussana Vecchia Ligurien Town abandoned after the 1887 earthquake — today an artists' colony in the ruins.
• 🗡️ Castel Sant'Angelo Lazio, Rom Hadrian's mausoleum from 139 AD — the popes' refuge fortress and prison for 1900 years.
• 👻 Colosseum Rom The bloody arena of the Roman Empire — 500,000 people and millions of animals were killed here.
• 🛎️ Hotel Burchianti Florens, Toscana Hotel in central Florence — guests regularly report paranormal activity. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Casino degli Spiriti Veneto The painter Luzzo, who shot himself over his hopeless love for Giorgione's Cecilia, is said to still sigh in the lagoon-side palace. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Aragonese Castle of Otranto Puglia On August nights, a headless knight is said to ride through the tunnels beneath the castle that gave the world's first Gothic novel its name. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Cantelmo Castle Abruzzo Each evening after sunset, the White Lady is said to seek out young lovers in the castle ruin to tell how she was shot by both husband and lover.
• 🛎️ Castello Chiola Abruzzo Sharan, the Creole beauty who leapt from the tower to escape Count Silveri, is said to call out at night from the castle hotel's third floor. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Catajo Castle Veneto Lucrezia Obizzi, murdered in her bedchamber in 1654, is said to appear dressed in blue at the castle's highest windows. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Bardi Castle Emilia-Romagna The knight Moroello is said to still search the fortress for his Soleste, after mistake and grief drove both to their deaths. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Duino Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia The White Lady thrown from the cliff turned to stone as she fell - her rock is still visible by the old castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Fénis Castle Valle d'Aosta In the fairy-tale castle of Fénis, a murdered child is said to haunt the halls – hidden in the walls by a stepmother who wanted the inheritance. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gorizia Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia On Gorizia's castle hill hunts the White Lady – a countess whose body the devil claimed, and whose hounds tear apart anyone who meets her. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Miramare Castle Friuli-Venezia Giulia Empress Carlotta's curse is said to hang over Miramare - while Maximilian's gentle spirit strolls the park. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Castle of Charles V, Monopoli Puglia In Monopoli's harbour fortress, a ghost was seen walking straight through a wall – where a bricked-up doorway was later discovered. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Poppi Castle Toscana Countess Matelda, who sent her lovers to die in a booby-trapped passage and was walled up alive herself, is said to haunt Poppi's castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Sorci Castle Toscana The condottiero Baldaccio d'Anghiari, beheaded in the Palazzo Vecchio in 1441, is said to walk his old manor in armour.
• 🏰 Torre Alfina Castle Lazio The restless White Lady of Torre Alfina leaves footprints in the courtyard and moves objects on Christmas night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Dal Verme Castle, Zavattarello Lombardiet In the Room of Spirits a chair was moved every night - Pietro Dal Verme, poisoned in 1485, is said never to have left his castle. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Este Castle Emilia-Romagna In the dungeons of Ferrara's castle, the beheaded lovers Ugo and Parisina are said to still weep in the darkness. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏗️ Celleno Ghost Village Lazio In Tuscia's abandoned clifftop village, ravaged by plague and landslides, even a pope's ghost is said to wander the ruins.
• 🏛️ Museum of the Souls of Purgatory Lazio In a neo-Gothic church by the Tiber lie scorch marks that the souls of the dead are said to have left on the books and clothes of the living. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Donn'Anna Kampanien From the unfinished palace's empty windows over the sea, Anna Carafa's face is said to appear by the light of the full moon. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Sansevero Campania At Palazzo Sansevero in Naples, the murdered Maria d'Avalos is said to roam the nights – while the alchemist prince Raimondo watches over his palace. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Trucchi di Levaldigi Piemonte Behind Turin's infamous Devil's Gate, the ballerina Emma Cochet is said to haunt the halls where she was stabbed at a masked ball. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gradara Castle Marche Francesca da Rimini, slain alongside her beloved Paolo, is said to call for him at night from the castle battlements. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Rocca di Soragna Emilia-Romagna Donna Cenerina, murdered in 1573, appears in ash-grey robes as an omen of misfortune for the Meli Lupi family. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Roveresca Fortress of Senigallia Marche After Cesare Borgia's New Year's massacre of 1502, the souls of his strangled captains are said to still cry out from the fortress walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth) Rom Put your hand in the marble mouth and lie, and the jaws snap shut. One unfaithful wife tricked it — and the stone has not forgotten.
• 🚇 Campo de' Fiori Rom On quiet nights a cowled figure stands where the pyre was. Call him Filippo, his baptismal name, and Romans say he turns around.
• 👻 Lake Nemi Rom On March evenings the wind carries the ring of a sword across Diana's mirror — the forest king still waits for the challenger who will kill him.
• 👻 Palazzo Braschi Rom Heels click on the marble in the museum's empty halls — Duchess Costanza is still receiving guests nobody else can see. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo De Cupis Rom At full moon a pale, armless hand moves behind a window on Piazza Navona — all that is left of Costanza de Cupis, and it is watching. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Pantheon Rom The hole in the dome was torn open by demons fleeing the consecration — and at dawn King Umberto I is seen at his own tomb.
• 🚇 Piazza Farnese Rom A heavily cloaked figure crosses the square asking for Vannozza's inn — Pope Alexander VI is still searching for his mistress.
• 🚇 Piazza di Sant'Apollonia Rom A woman in a black veil walks weeping through Trastevere — Lorenza Feliciani forever atoning for denouncing her husband.
• 👻 Ponte Fabricio (Bridge of the Four Heads) Rom Four stone heads guard the bridge: the architects who quarrelled their way to the block now stand back to back, forever unable to meet.
• 🏚️ Portico of Octavia Rom Under the broken arches, Queen Berenice still waits for Emperor Titus, who promised marriage and then sent her home for good.
• ⛪ Basilica of St John Lateran Rom On the eve of St John's Day, Herodias and Salome fly over the Lateran — and the witches gather beneath the walnut tree.
• 🏚️ Sedia del Diavolo (The Devil's Chair) Rom The ruin looks like a giant throne. When fire flickered inside it at night, Romans knew exactly who was sitting there holding court.
• 👻 Torre della Scimmia (Tower of the Monkey) Rom A monkey carried the household's baby to the top of the tower. Ever since, a lamp burns up there that must never be allowed to go out.
• 👻 Villa Celimontana Rom A woman's figure searches the walls for her own bones — the courtesan Imperia, whose grand tomb was given away to an unnamed canon.
• 🏯 Villa Medici Rom A woman in a white peplos and heavy jewellery moves through the gardens on the Pincio — Messalina is still looking for a lover.
• 🏯 Villa Strohl-Fern Rom Romans called him Merlin the Magician. Since his death a white-bearded face has been seen behind the windows of the forgotten villa.
• 👻 Sant'Anna di Stazzema (Memorial Site) Toscana Tuscan village where the SS massacred 560 civilians in 1944 — today a memorial site. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Castel dell'Ovo Campania Beneath Naples' oldest castle, the sorcerer Virgil is said to have hidden a magic egg – if it breaks, the city falls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Toblino Castle Trentino-Alto Adige From the mists of Lake Toblino, the prince-bishop's drowned mistress Claudia Particella is said to rise again at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Zisa Castle Sicilia The devils in the Zisa's vault fresco are said to guard an enchanted treasure – and whoever manages to count them breaks the spell. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Moncalieri Castle Piemonte The king's commoner wife, Bela Rosin, is said to still drift along the walls of the royal castle of Moncalieri. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Sanluri Castle Sardegna In Sardinia's only still-inhabited medieval castle, a queen's voice is said to echo through the halls at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Monforte Castle Molise On Monforte hill in Campobasso, Delicata Civerra is said to wander – the girl who died locked away for her forbidden love. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Sforza Castle Lombardia Around Milan's mighty castle prowls the Black Lady – a veiled beauty who lures men into the darkness of Sempione Park. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera Umbria In this Renaissance palace in Città di Castello, Sora Laura is said to wander still – trapped in the house, weighed down by remorse and searching for forgiveness. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Devil's Bridge Toscana The devil is said to have raised this medieval bridge over the Serchio in a single night – in exchange for the first soul to cross it.
• 🏛️ Keats-Shelley House Rom John Keats died at twenty-five in the room above the Spanish Steps — he and Shelley are said to return to the square at dusk. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Vicolo di Mazzamurelli Rom The alley is named after its ghosts: mazzamurelli, small monk-robed sprites with golden curls who hide things and laugh about it.
• 🏯 Villa Foscari, La Malcontenta Veneto In Palladio's villa on the Brenta canal, Elisabetta Dolfin – locked away for thirty years by her husband – is said to still appear at dawn.

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Italy?

Haunted Places lists 89 haunted locations in Italy, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Italy?

Among the most notable in Italy: Catacombe dei Cappuccini, Volterra Asylum, Palazzo Cenci.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Italy?

Yes — 46 of the haunted places in Italy are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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