Soave, where the Scaligeri castle watches over the Veneto's most elegant vineyards
Battlemented walls, medieval towers and hills of Garganega: Soave is a Veronese borgo uniting Scaligeri history and centuries of wine tradition.
Jul 5, 2026Borghi, 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.
Battlemented walls, medieval towers and hills of Garganega: Soave is a Veronese borgo uniting Scaligeri history and centuries of wine tradition.
Jul 5, 2026
Two kilometres of perfectly preserved medieval walls enclose a Venetian gem of DOP prosciutto, frescoes and the Palio dei 10 Comuni.
Jul 5, 2026
Clinging to a cliff edge in the Grecanico Aspromonte, abandoned after a 1973 flood: houses gripping the rock face like swallows' nests.
Jul 5, 2026
A Del Carretto castle and a stone village abandoned above Loano: the historic centre has been sealed shut for sixty years, intact and inaccessible.
Jul 5, 2026
A tiny quarrymen's village at the gateway to the Antro del Corchia, half-swallowed by an artificial lake: its houses rise roughly every ten years like a mirage, when the reservoir is periodically drained.
Jul 5, 2026
A handful of stone houses in the Samnium, abandoned after the 1980 earthquake and now suspended between ruin and rebirth through an open-air art project.
Jul 5, 2026
On the Euganean Hills, the borgo where Petrarch spent his final years retains its medieval spell among olive trees, jujubes and hillside silence.
Jul 5, 2026
Mel, one of Italy's Most Beautiful Villages in the Belluno Valbelluna: a frescoed square, a Renaissance palace and a pre-Roman necropolis.
Jul 5, 2026
Pieve di Cadore, birthplace of Titian Vecellio: a Dolomite borgo with the painter's birth house, the Eyewear Museum and alpine panoramas.
Jul 5, 2026