Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
A Tyrrhenian island with 700 inhabitants, an intact Roman harbour and the manifesto that founded the EU: the greatest story in the smallest of places.
Jul 5, 2026
Thermal springs on the Lima river in the Garfagnana, once frequented by Byron and Shelley: the grand spa is shuttered, but the wild pools in the woods remain free.
Jul 5, 2026
Three natural sulphurous pools at 26°C along the Luretta stream in the hills of Piacenza — countryside thermal baths with no signs and no infrastructure.
Jul 5, 2026
A cascade of sulphurous water at 43°C in the heart of the Maremma, completely free and open to all: Tuscany's thermal secret that costs absolutely nothing.
Jul 5, 2026
A handful of stone houses in the Samnium, abandoned after the 1980 earthquake and now suspended between ruin and rebirth through an open-air art project.
Jul 5, 2026
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
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
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
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