Instead of the Cinque Terre: Tellaro, the Fishing Borgo That Byron Loved
A tangle of colourful houses clinging above the sea in the Gulf of Poets. No packed trains, no capped trails — just stone, waves and silence.
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A tangle of colourful houses clinging above the sea in the Gulf of Poets. No packed trains, no capped trails — just stone, waves and silence.
Jul 5, 2026
A fairy-tale castle, a river that wraps around the medieval town, and a Baroque theatre still in use. Hidden Bohemia, three hours from Prague.
Jul 5, 2026
Five fingers of rock above the Strait of Messina, a village abandoned in the 1960s and slowly coming back to life: the south's most alive ghost town.
Jul 5, 2026
In Irpinia, a village abandoned after the 1962 earthquake: furnished houses, rusted shop signs, and a clock stopped on the day that stopped everything.
Jul 5, 2026
A medieval village submerged beneath the artificial Lago di Vagli in Garfagnana: it re-emerges at each draining, the last one awaited for decades.
Jul 5, 2026
A village of red houses abandoned in the 1950s after floods, wedged into a gorge in Sardinia's Ogliastra: the island's most photographed ruin.
Jul 5, 2026
Roscigno Vecchia is Italy's abandoned stone village in Cilento, emptied by landslides yet perfectly preserved: empty streets, a fountain and silence.
Jul 1, 2026
Italy's authentic sagre and the village feasts still alive in the small towns: what they celebrate, when to go and which traditions to look for.
Jun 29, 2026
In Kispest, the garden district of Wekerle: houses with steep roofs and wooden gateways around Kós Károly tér. How to get there.
Jun 28, 2026