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~10 km southwest of Alicante city · near Elche · € Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC) — Airport Guide 2026 Alicante handled 18.38 million passengers in 2024 — a record — and tracked higher through 2025; easyJet reopened a full base here in 2026, joining Ryanair’s eighteen based aircraft in what is, by passenger volume, … Read more

~33 km northwest of Trieste · near Monfalcone · € Trieste Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) — Airport Guide 2026 Trieste’s airport is not in Trieste. It sits at Ronchi dei Legionari, 33 km northwest of the city near Monfalcone — roughly equidistant between Trieste and Udine — and it crossed a million passengers for … Read more

~10 km southwest of Verona · Veneto · € Verona Villafranca Airport “Valerio Catullo” (VRN) — Airport Guide 2026 Verona’s airport crossed 4 million passengers in 2025 — up roughly 9% on the year — and nearly all of that growth came through the summer gate to Lake Garda, which is the honest reason most … Read more

~16 km north of Turin · Piedmont · € Turin Sandro Pertini Airport (TRN) — Airport Guide 2026 The reconnection of the Torino–Ceres railway to the national network finally gave Turin a proper city-centre rail link — the airport train now runs all the way through to Porta Susa for €3.70, replacing years of awkward … Read more

€ Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) — Airport Guide 2026 The airport sits on a spit of reclaimed harbour land about 6 km west of central Genoa, with the medieval Lanterna lighthouse standing between the runway and the port — the city’s emblem for seven centuries and a useful visual marker on approach. Quick Reference … Read more

€ Brindisi Salento Airport (BDS) — Airport Guide 2026 Ryanair’s southern Puglia base handles around 2.5 million passengers a year, most of them heading straight through Brindisi to Lecce, Ostuni, or the Adriatic and Ionian coasts — which means the airport functions as an entry point to Salento rather than a destination in itself, and … Read more

~5 km northwest of Florence · € Florence Amerigo Vespucci Airport (FLR) — Airport Guide 2026 Florence’s airport sits at Peretola, 5 km northwest of the centre, with a runway of roughly 1,750 metres boxed in by the A11 motorway and the surrounding hills — a physical constraint that explains the route map, the airline … Read more

~3–4 km from central Olbia · northeast Sardinia (Gallura) · € Aeroporto Olbia Costa Smeralda – Prince Karim Aga Khan IV (OLB) — Airport Guide 2026 Northern Sardinia’s commercial airport handles more than 3 million passengers a year, almost entirely on European holiday flights that stack up from June to September and then dissolve — … Read more

€ Cagliari Elmas Airport (CAG) — Airport Guide 2026 Cagliari Elmas handled just over 5 million passengers in 2025 — Sardinia’s busiest airport and Italy’s roughly twelfth — with a single terminal 7 km from the city and a railway station a covered walk from the door, which is a better setup than airports three … Read more