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Étroubles: The Alpine Borgo with an Open-Air Museum
Étroubles weaves the Via Francigena, contemporary sculptures set among its lanes, and the authentic stillness of the Gran San Bernardo valley.
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Compiano: The Walled Borgo of the Val Taro Among Forests and Porcini
Compiano is a walled borgo in the Val Taro with a Landi castle turned hotel, the International Masonic Museum and forests teeming with porcini mushrooms.
Jul 5, 2026
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Pennabilli: Tonino Guerra's Borgo of Petrified Gardens and Forgotten Fruits
Pennabilli, in the heart of the Montefeltro, preserves the poetic legacy of Tonino Guerra: petrified gardens, forgotten fruits and wandering Madonnas.
Jul 5, 2026
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Dozza: The Painted Borgo Where Art Meets Wine
Dozza is a one-of-a-kind painted borgo: facades turned into artists' canvases, a Sforza fortress and the regional wine cellar of Emilia-Romagna.
Jul 5, 2026
Italian villages
Brisighella: The Borgo of Three Hills, Passatelli and DOP Olive Oil
Brisighella enchants with its elevated Via degli Asini, three iconic gypsum hills, award-winning DOP olive oil and the celebrated passatelli in broth.
Jul 5, 2026
Italian villages
Vigoleno: The Castle-Borgo Suspended Above the Hills of Piacenza
Vigoleno is a perfectly preserved medieval borgo in the Piacenza hills: intact walls, a panoramic keep and a DOC vin santo unique in all the world.
Jul 5, 2026
Italian villages
Roghudi Vecchio: The Greek Borgo of Calabria Perched Above the Void
Clinging to a cliff edge in the Grecanico Aspromonte, abandoned after a 1973 flood: houses gripping the rock face like swallows' nests.
Jul 5, 2026
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Balestrino: The Ligurian Medieval Borgo That a Landslide Emptied in a Single Night
A Del Carretto castle and a stone village abandoned above Loano: the historic centre has been sealed shut for sixty years, intact and inaccessible.
Jul 5, 2026
Italian villages
Isola Santa: The Submerged Village That Resurfaces in the Heart of the Apuane
A tiny quarrymen's village at the gateway to the Antro del Corchia, half-swallowed by an artificial lake: its houses rise roughly every ten years like a mirage, when the reservoir is periodically drained.
Jul 5, 2026