In Tuscania, the frescoed Judgement of Santa Maria Maggiore
In Tuscania, off the beaten track, a medieval church preserves a cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes that almost no one comes to see.
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November — top 12 of 305 destinations
Staffarda Abbey: 12th-Century Romanesque Amid Rice Fields
A 12th-century Cistercian abbey set amid the Piedmont rice fields, Staffarda is one of Italy's best-preserved monastic complexes — and rarely visited.
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Amendolea: The Ghost Castle and the Lost Villages of Aspromonte
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.
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Apecchio, the Marche Capital of Craft Beer Among Truffles and Forests
Apecchio is a small Apennine village in the Pesaro hinterland known for prized white truffle and a unique craft brewing tradition in the Marche.
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Apice Vecchia: the Ghost Town Frozen by the 1962 Earthquake
In Irpinia, a village abandoned after the 1962 earthquake: furnished houses, rusted shop signs, and a clock stopped on the day that stopped everything.
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Bagan — A Thousand Pagodas in Myanmar's Golden Dust
Bagan, Myanmar's plain of two thousand ancient temples: hot-air balloons at dawn, lacquerware workshops and sunsets that stop time.
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Bagni di Lucca: Where the Romantics Came to Heal in the River
Thermal springs on the Lima river in the Garfagnana, once frequented by Byron and Shelley: the grand spa is shuttered, but the wild pools in the woods remain free.
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Balestrino: The Ligurian Medieval Borgo That a Landslide Emptied in a Single Night
A Del Carretto castle and a stone village abandoned above Loano: the historic centre has been sealed shut for sixty years, intact and inaccessible.
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Ban Bu, Bangkok's last hand-hammered bronze workshop
In Thonburi, along the Khlong Bangkok Noi, a single family still forges the khan long hin bronze bowl by hand. How to get there.
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The Walk of the Silent Villages in the Umbrian Amerino
In the Amerino, the south-western corner of Umbria, the Walk of the Silent Villages crosses woods and near-deserted hamlets. Born precisely as an escape from noisy tourism, it is a loop designed for those seeking silence, slowness and village hospitality.
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Cammino delle Terre Mutate: from Fabriano to L'Aquila
The Cammino delle Terre Mutate runs for roughly 250 kilometres across the earthquake-scarred lands of the central Apennines, from Fabriano to L'Aquila, through Marche, Umbria, Lazio and Abruzzo. A slow, solidarity-driven journey among the villages struck by the quakes, far from any tourist route.
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The Cammino di Santa Barbara: Hiking Through Sardinia's Mining Heartland
The Cammino di Santa Barbara winds 500km through south-western Sardinia between abandoned mines, deserted beaches and the lunar landscapes of the Sulcis-Iglesiente.
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