Castelli e fortezze, palazzi, ponti storici e opere d'arte fuori dai circuiti, che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
Beneath Copenhagen's Søndermarken park, a former water reservoir hides a cavernous underground gallery of contemporary art, unknown to most visitors.
Jun 28, 2026
The mausoleum of the dervish Gül Baba in Budapest: a sixteenth-century Ottoman tomb on the Rózsadomb, free to enter and hushed among the roses.
Jun 28, 2026
Michel de Klerk's Expressionist masterpiece in Amsterdam's Spaarndammerbuurt: social housing shaped like a ship, now a museum you can actually visit.
Jun 28, 2026
The Rotunda of St Martin at Vyšehrad, Prague: the city's oldest building, Romanesque, with a Prussian cannonball from 1757 lodged in the wall.
Jun 28, 2026
In Madrid, a metro station closed in 1966 is now a free museum: 1920s tilework and advertising signs left perfectly intact.
Jun 28, 2026
On the Epipoli plateau above Siracusa stands one of the most imposing Greek fortresses: walls, moats and tunnels that are almost always deserted.
Jun 23, 2026
In Rome, a few steps from the Tiber, Borromini's perspective gallery at Palazzo Spada enchants with its illusionistic trick, without the crowds.
Jun 21, 2026
In Caltagirone, 142 steps clad in hand-painted majolica tiles climb through the heart of Baroque Sicily, best taken slowly and on foot.
Jun 21, 2026
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