Borghi, arte e storia minore
Si occupa di borghi, centri storici, chiese e siti archeologici: paesi sotto i mille abitanti e architetture fuori dalle guide turistiche ufficiali.
At Altilia, three kilometres from Sepino, an intact Roman city emerges from the fields — with its walls, triumphal gates, and a theatre embedded in an eighteenth-century farmhouse.
Jul 9, 2026
Frosolone, in the Molisan mountains, is the Italian capital of knives and scissors: a centuries-old craft tradition that Benedetto Croce compared to Europe's great blade cities.
Jul 9, 2026
On Aspromonte's wildest slopes, Amendolea is an abandoned borgo ruled by a ruined Norman castle — a journey to Calabria's edge where nature reclaims what was once human.
Jul 5, 2026
In the heart of the Pollino, Civita is a village of Albanian origin where the houses seem to have eyes and the dialect breathes the Balkans — a timeless place above one of Italy's most spectacular canyons.
Jul 5, 2026
Perched on a cliff ten kilometres from the sea, Gerace holds Calabria's largest Norman cathedral and an intact medieval centre — the perfect alternative to Tropea for beauty without crowds.
Jul 5, 2026
In the Carnic Alps, this tiny borgo hides monumental clocks on every corner: three centuries of pendulum craftsmanship in an open-air museum outside of time.
Jul 5, 2026
Perched above 1,000 metres in the Carnic Alps, Sauris is a German-speaking village where Italy's rarest prosciutto is smoked. A place where the Alpine Middle Ages survive intact.
Jul 5, 2026
Deep in Calabria's Pollino massif, Civita is an arbëreshë borgo where ancient Albanian is still spoken and a breathtaking stone bridge spans a hundred-metre gorge.
Jul 5, 2026
On a sheer-sided plateau in the Marchesato Crotonese, Santa Severina shelters a unique Byzantine baptistery and an intact Norman castle.
Jul 5, 2026