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.
When the white swallows the medieval stones of this Abruzzese village at 1,251 metres, Santo Stefano di Sessanio becomes something else: quieter, truer.
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In January Scanno empties of everything but the essentials: medieval lanes, the scent of arrosticini and cold light on the heart-shaped lake.
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In the Majella mountains near L'Aquila, Pescocostanzo hides Baroque palaces and centuries of lace-making under snow-covered beech woods in winter.
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In 1223 Francis of Assisi invented the living nativity scene here. Every December the cliff-side sanctuary of Greccio does it again, in the exact spot where it first happened.
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Matera in peak season is packed. In February, the Sassi return to what they've always been: a city carved in tufa, silent and ancient like few places in Europe.
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Second city of North Macedonia, Bitola was an Ottoman diplomatic capital and crossroads of the ancient Via Egnatia — its mosques and cafés are still waiting to be discovered.
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At 850 metres above sea level among the mountains of south-eastern Albania, Korçë boasts the first school in the Albanian language, French-style boulevards and a bazaar that defies comparison.
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Thirty kilometres from Mostar, a 15th-century walled village clings to the rock above the Neretva as though the centuries never passed.
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At the foot of the Rugova Gorge, Peja/Peć hides the medieval Serbian Patriarchate — four churches in one, frescoed since the 14th century — a twenty-minute walk from the centre.
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