Month by month, the least crowded destinations to visit. Choose when you travel and we'll tell you where to go.
In the province of Pordenone, High Route number 6 crosses the Friulian Dolomites, the wildest and most rugged of the entire Dolomite range, with no ski lifts at all. The huts are few and far apart, and encounters on the trails rarer still: it is the realm of solitude in the high mountains.
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A vast highland of primeval forests and crystalline lakes above 1,000 metres, where summers are cool and winters bring skiing among ancient larch pines. Calabria's mountain secret.
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In the Belluno Dolomites National Park, the Cimonega group is an isolated corner of the Vette Feltrine, watched over by the Feltre-Bodo bivouac. It is one of the few places in the Dolomites where solitude is truly guaranteed, far from the great tourist flows.
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Between the Po Valley and the Varaita Valley, in the Cottian Alps of the Cuneo area, a multi-day circuit around the pyramid of Monviso, crossing over into France. High-altitude trails and refuges light years away from the beach and city tourism of summer.
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In a village with an almost-unknown Romanesque castle, they produce Arnad DOP lard, cured in wooden containers with alpine herbs according to a centuries-old recipe.
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Bakkehuset, the Rahbeks' home in Frederiksberg: period rooms, a historic garden and the literary salons frequented by H.C. Andersen.
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Tapia pisada walls, artisan workshops, a pre-Columbian trail and silence: Barichara is Colombia's most beautiful borgo and its least crowded.
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Biertan's UNESCO fortified church in Transylvania: medieval bastions, watchtowers, and a room where quarreling couples were locked in to make peace.
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Biogradska Gora shelters one of Europe's last primordial forests: ancient trees, an emerald-green lake, and absolute silence.
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Birka, Scandinavia's first urban settlement, rises on an island in Lake Mälaren: Viking ruins, an evocative museum, and deep silence just one hour from Stockholm.
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The Toce Waterfall in Val Formazza plunges 143 metres of granite in a nearly uninhabited valley on the Swiss border: an Italian record that few have heard of.
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Hidden in the greenery of the Vallagarina, Castello di Avio preserves fourteenth-century fresco cycles that no art textbook highlights enough.
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