Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
Poggioreale Antica, in the Belice Valley of Sicily: the town emptied by the 1968 earthquake, walkable again since 2026 through its old streets.
Jun 23, 2026
On the Epipoli plateau above Siracusa stands one of the most imposing Greek fortresses: walls, moats and tunnels that are almost always deserted.
Jun 23, 2026
A few km from Selinunte, the Cave di Cusa preserve Greek column drums left half-cut in the 5th century BC, as if the stonemasons had walked out yesterday.
Jun 23, 2026
Above Bojano, at a thousand metres in the Matese, the Hermitage of Sant'Egidio and the transhumance drovers' roads tell of a slow, silent Molise.
Jun 23, 2026
On Calabria's Ionian tip, at Capo Colonna near Crotone, a single Doric column remains: the last witness of the great sanctuary of Hera.
Jun 23, 2026
Near the sea of Metaponto, fifteen Doric columns have stood for 25 centuries among the fields: the Magna Graecia temple that few come looking for.
Jun 23, 2026
At Gravina in Puglia, the Fondovico quarter and the rock-cut crypts carved into the tufa along the ravine form a silent underground world.
Jun 23, 2026
At San Vito dei Normanni, in Apulia, the crypt of San Biagio carved into the tufa preserves some of the finest Byzantine frescoes of 1196.
Jun 23, 2026
In the Grecìa Salentina, near Martano, the archaeological park of Apigliano guards among the olive trees the ruins of a medieval Byzantine village.
Jun 23, 2026