Castelli e fortezze, palazzi, ponti storici e opere d'arte fuori dai circuiti, che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
A honey-stone village on a hilltop, a 10th-century castle, and a Cluniac collegiate church: Semur-en-Brionnais has the bearing of a capital without ever having had the population of one.
Aug 3, 2026
Just steps from the Duomo, a state museum tells the story of Florentine pietre dure mosaic art: Medici masterpieces and almost no tourists.
Jul 29, 2026
Thirty kilometres from Mostar, a 15th-century walled village clings to the rock above the Neretva as though the centuries never passed.
Jul 9, 2026
Dominating the Vallagarina from a solitary hill, Castel Beseno is Trentino's best-preserved medieval castle — yet it remains almost deserted.
Jul 9, 2026
Hidden in the greenery of the Vallagarina, Castello di Avio preserves fourteenth-century fresco cycles that no art textbook highlights enough.
Jul 9, 2026
Perched on a sandstone cliff in Locride, Gerace shelters the largest Norman cathedral in the south of Italy and alleys that breathe of bergamot.
Jul 5, 2026
Crespi d'Adda, a UNESCO workers' village in Lombardy: a 19th-century social experiment crystallised in time, from workers' cottages to factory chimneys.
Jul 5, 2026
Palmanova, Friuli's nine-pointed star fortress, is a masterpiece of Renaissance military urbanism still perfectly intact and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jul 5, 2026
Issogne hides a Renaissance courtyard with a wrought-iron pomegranate fountain and frescoes vividly depicting daily life in fifteenth-century Aosta Valley.
Jul 5, 2026