The Ricetto di Candelo, the fortified village where wine was kept safe
Near Biella, the Ricetto di Candelo is a maze of alleys and two hundred stone houses where medieval peasants safeguarded their harvest.
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Near Biella, the Ricetto di Candelo is a maze of alleys and two hundred stone houses where medieval peasants safeguarded their harvest.
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Triora, the witches' borgo in the Ligurian Alps: a journey through dark history, enchanted forests, and the authentic mountain flavours of Liguria.
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Fewer than a thousand people live inside Glorenza's medieval walls in Val Venosta. Alpine arcades, watchtowers and centuries that barely moved.
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Between Irpinia and Apulia, Bisaccia preserves a ducal castle and a quiet village, still untouched by the great tourist flows.
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Poggioreale Antica, in the Belice Valley of Sicily: the town emptied by the 1968 earthquake, walkable again since 2026 through its old streets.
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Elcito, a handful of stone houses at 820 metres beneath Monte San Vicino: fewer than five residents and a rare, total silence in the Marche.
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At 405 metres above sea level, within Aldobrandeschi walls and views that reach as far as Corsica on clear days, Giglio Castello is the Isle of Giglio without the port's bustle.
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Castle, canal-port and the Tombolo pine forest stretching east: Castiglione della Pescaia is the Maremma coast at its most intimate, between Etruscans and reclaimed marshland.
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167 metres above the sea, among medieval alleys and views over the gulf, Capoliveri is Elba seen from up high, far from the bustle of Portoferraio's port.
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