Instead of Mykonos: Sifnos, the Greek Island Where You Come to Eat, Not to Dance
Three hundred white churches, handmade ceramics, and a culinary tradition unrivalled in the Cyclades. Sifnos is the anti-Mykonos by nature.
Jul 5, 202656 guides · tipo
Three hundred white churches, handmade ceramics, and a culinary tradition unrivalled in the Cyclades. Sifnos is the anti-Mykonos by nature.
Jul 5, 2026
Seventy multicoloured beaches, fishing villages and early Christian catacombs. The island where the Venus was born — still free of sprawling resorts.
Jul 5, 2026
In the Sulcis, a natural amphitheatre of rock guards more than forty tombs cut five thousand years ago: the necropolis of Montessu, in Sardinia.
Jul 1, 2026
Among the hills of Irpinia, the Abbey of Goleto: Romanesque towers, Roman stones and a roofless church tell the story of eight centuries.
Jul 1, 2026
In northern Portugal, the country's only national park stays in the shadow of the coastal beaches. Between waterfalls, garrano ponies and the ancient Roman road, the Gerês offers solitary trails and granite hamlets a short distance from Braga and Porto.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Maiella National Park, straddling the provinces of Chieti and Pescara, lunar plateaus and deep gorges shape Abruzzo's 'mother mountain'. A vast, wild massif, tucked away beside the nearby Gran Sasso and still little visited.
Jun 30, 2026
In the far south of Calabria, the Greek-speaking Grecanica area of the Aspromonte is an almost deserted land of ancient Hellenic roots: gravel climbs to abandoned villages and wide dry riverbeds trace out a harsh, silent journey, far from any tourist circuit.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Ionian slopes of the Aspromonte, at the very tip of Calabria, the Grecanic Area still endures: mountain villages where the Greek of Calabria is still spoken. A loop between Bova and Galliciano winds through half-abandoned villages overlooking a remote Ionian Sea, worlds away from the tourist circuits.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Tuff Area of the Maremma's interior, far from the crowded coast, the Etruscan Vie Cave are deep gorges carved into the rock linking Pitigliano, Sovana and Sorano: a journey among cliff-perched villages and necropolises, magnificent in the off-season.
Jun 30, 2026