Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
In the Vallo di Diano, San Giovanni in Fonte is an early Christian baptistery built over a spring that still fills the font, near the Charterhouse.
Jun 23, 2026
Between Irpinia and Apulia, Bisaccia preserves a ducal castle and a quiet village, still untouched by the great tourist flows.
Jun 23, 2026
In Abruzzo, on the ridge of Monte Vecchio, the old village of Buonanotte is a ghost town abandoned to landslides, now known as Montebello sul Sangro.
Jun 23, 2026
On Monte Raione, near Salerno, a cave holds one of the best-preserved early medieval religious complexes, reachable only on foot.
Jun 23, 2026
At Fossombrone, in the Marche region, the Metauro river has carved out the Marmitte dei Giganti: a gorge of polished limestone and turquoise pools.
Jun 23, 2026
A thousand metres up in the Sibillini Mountains, the sanctuary of Macereto is a wind-swept octagonal stone temple on a deserted plateau.
Jun 23, 2026
In the Tuscia region of Viterbo, the cube tombs of Norchia carved into the tuff: an Etruscan city of the dead set among wooded gorges.
Jun 23, 2026
At the mouth of the Frasassi gorge, in the Marche, San Vittore alle Chiuse is one of the most intact Romanesque churches in Italy: worth a stop.
Jun 23, 2026
At Schiavi d'Abruzzo, on the Colle della Torre, two Samnite temples over two thousand years old look out in silence over the Trigno valley.
Jun 23, 2026