Regioni e cittadine europee dimenticate dal turismo di massa: borghi medievali, valli remote e capitali secondarie da scoprire lontano dalla folla.
In Blagaj, Bosnia, a river erupts from a cave beneath a 200-metre cliff face and a sixteenth-century Sufi monastery watches over the turquoise water.
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Travnik, once the Ottoman capital of Bosnia, guards a colourful fortress, painted mosques, and the oldest burek tradition in the country.
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Zlatibor is a golden plateau in western Serbia: wooden villages, crystal-clear air, extraordinary cheeses and trails through pine forests and meadows.
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Sighișoara is Romania's most colorful medieval Saxon citadel — pastel houses, ancient towers, and Vlad Dracula's birthplace, without the crowds.
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Sibiu, Transylvania's Saxon jewel: pastel squares, eyelid-shaped attic windows, and a vibrant cultural life far from the tourist trail.
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Telč is the crowd-free alternative to Český Krumlov: a fairytale Renaissance square, sgraffito-decorated houses and a castle reflected in the lake.
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Kutná Hora, Bohemia's ancient silver city: the Cathedral of St Barbara, the Sedlec Ossuary and an intact UNESCO old town just an hour from Prague.
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Kazimierz Dolny, an artists' borgo on the Vistula: Renaissance granaries, galleries, castle ruins and Poland's most photographed stretch of countryside.
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Szentendre, artists' village on the Danube bend: Serbian Orthodox churches, galleries, colourful houses and an open-air museum of Hungarian rural life.
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