Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
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
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 borgo razed and rebuilt as a theme park in the 1960s, then left to ruin: the most surreal ghost town in the Lombard Prealps.
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
A trail carved into rock at 900 metres, running alongside a disused aqueduct above the Rhaetian Alps. Vertiginous, solitary, unforgettable.
Jul 5, 2026
70 km from Santhià to the Sanctuary of Oropa, from the Piedmontese plain to 1,160 metres in the Pre-Alps: a walk of faith and landscape without crowds.
Jul 5, 2026
Norcia, Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto: 250 km on foot through the places struck by the 2016 earthquake, where reconstruction is an act of defiance.
Jul 5, 2026
180 km and 13,000 metres of ascent along Corsica's mountain spine: the GR20 is legendary, but the southern half is within reach of any fit walker.
Jul 5, 2026
7,000 km from Friuli to Sardinia: the Sentiero Italia is the world's longest trekking route and almost no one knows it. A guide to the finest stretches.
Jul 5, 2026