Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
The Val Resia, in the Julian Alps in the province of Udine, at the foot of Monte Canin, is one of the most peculiar and least touristy valleys of the whole alpine arc. A community with a language, music and dances all its own, keeper of traditions found nowhere else: a slow journey into a world apart, still far from the mass routes.
Jun 30, 2026
The Oltrepò Pavese is the corner of the Apennines south of Pavia, a wine country an hour from Milan and yet still authentic and out of the spotlight. A slow road trip along the ridge roads, among vineyards, castles and Apennine villages where mass tourism has never arrived.
Jun 30, 2026
The Val Camonica, in the province of Brescia, holds one of the largest complexes of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, the first Italian site inscribed on the UNESCO list. And yet its parks remain surprisingly little visited: a walking itinerary among engraved rocks, villages and medieval churches, far from mass tourism.
Jun 30, 2026
The Cammino Balteo is a long loop that crosses the lower and middle Aosta Valley following the Dora Baltea, among castles, heroic vineyards and valley-floor villages. While the high mountains fill up in summer, here you can walk in spring and autumn too, along a little-trodden route made for slow travel.
Jun 30, 2026
Sauris (Zahre) is a German-speaking linguistic island in the Carnic Alps, in the province of Udine, reachable only through a narrow gorge: getting there takes time, and that is exactly what keeps it far from the crowds. A loop among a turquoise lake, alpine huts and ham, in the heart of one of Friuli's most secluded valleys.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Brescia shore of Lake Iseo, the least fashionable of the Lombard lakes, the ancient Via Valeriana runs along the hillside among villages, country churches and olive groves. A historic route of Roman origin, perfect in the shoulder seasons, far from the crowds of the more famous lakes.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Polesine, where the Po frays into branches and lagoons before the sea, the Delta is one of the most important wetlands in Europe and yet almost ignored by Veneto tourism. By bike, on flat roads among lagoons, sandbars and reserves, you ride in silence among flamingos and herons.
Jun 30, 2026
Val d'Ultimo (Ultental), a side valley above Bolzano, has deliberately stayed off the great South Tyrolean circuits. Among historic farmsteads, steep meadows and some of the oldest larches in Europe, it preserves an archaic rhythm and a silence rare in South Tyrol.
Jun 30, 2026
The Monte Grappa massif, straddling Belluno, Treviso and Vicenza, is an isolated, silent mountain marked by the Great War. Far from the more fashionable Dolomites, here you walk among huts, plateaus and memorials frequented almost only by local hikers.
Jun 30, 2026