If you’re looking for a place to live that’s clean, wealthy and above all safe, you could do a lot worse than Belluno. The north-eastern province, dotted with snowy slopes and picturesque mountain villages, has been judged to have the best quality of life of anywhere in Italy.

Belluno climbed to the top of business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore’s annual liveability ranking of 110 Italian provinces, published last week. With a successful tourism industry as well as a growing manufacturing sector, Belluno scored highest overall across six different categories, with especially good marks for its low crime rate, high employment, substantial average wealth and lack of urban crowds.