Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
Suspended on a rocky spur in the Maiella, the hermitage linked to Pietro da Morrone remains one of the quietest and least-visited places in Abruzzo.
Jun 23, 2026
On the Romagna side of the Casentino Forests, Sasso Fratino is a UNESCO old-growth wood of centuries-old beeches, to be admired from the surrounding trails.
Jun 23, 2026
South of Ferrara, Argenta tells the struggle between man and water through one of Emilia's oldest parish churches and a great water-pumping plant.
Jun 23, 2026
Fewer than a thousand people live inside Glorenza's medieval walls in Val Venosta. Alpine arcades, watchtowers and centuries that barely moved.
Jun 23, 2026
The hermitage of San Romedio, in the Val di Non: five little churches climb seventy metres up a rocky spur in Trentino.
Jun 23, 2026
At the foot of Monte Rosa, the larch houses of Pedemonte guard eight centuries of Walser culture, without the ski-lift queues.
Jun 23, 2026
At the foot of Monte Rosa, above Alagna Valsesia, a route through narrow gorges and alpine tarns, among untouched Walser villages and deep silence.
Jun 23, 2026
In a Ligurian bay reachable only on foot or by sea, the Abbey of San Fruttuoso, protected by the FAI, looks out over crystal-clear waters.
Jun 23, 2026
Triora, the witches' borgo in the Ligurian Alps: a journey through dark history, enchanted forests, and the authentic mountain flavours of Liguria.
Jun 23, 2026