Zambujeira do Mar: the wild beach Portugal keeps secret
Ochre cliffs on the Sudoeste Alentejano Natural Park, a beach that's still real, icy waters, and no concrete towers. The Algarve as it was twenty years ago.
Jul 9, 2026Natura e viaggio lento
Cura le guide su parchi, sentieri e aree naturali: quando andare per non affollare un luogo fragile e le alternative alle mete più battute.
Ochre cliffs on the Sudoeste Alentejano Natural Park, a beach that's still real, icy waters, and no concrete towers. The Algarve as it was twenty years ago.
Jul 9, 2026
Off Praia a Mare, on the Calabrian Tyrrhenian coast, a sea cave that rivals Capri's Blue Grotto: few tourists know it. Boat trip included.
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A former penal colony and then a supermax prison for terrorists and mafia bosses, Asinara is now a national park open only to guided excursions: a place of rare power.
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No cars, no scooters, no tarmac: on Alicudi you get around on foot or by mule. It is the most isolated of the Aeolian Islands, and perhaps the most genuine.
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Dante cited it in the Inferno, the Romans came here for cures: Viterbo's Bullicame is a bubbling spring surrounded by white limestone deposits, free and ancestral.
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Between the Lamezia plain and the Reventino massif, the waters of Caronte gush warm among white clay: free thermal springs in the silent heart of Calabria.
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Among the gorges of the Pollino, in Cerchiara di Calabria, a natural spring feeds a pool among the rocks: an ancient place of worship and crystal-clear waters.
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The lesser-known stretch of the Path of the Gods runs along the ridges above Agerola, past abandoned terraces, prickly pears and vertiginous views over the Gulf of Salerno.
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Filicudi lacks Stromboli's fame and Panarea's glamour, but it has something rarer: silence, time, and a fishing village that has remained intact.
Jul 9, 2026