Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
In Cividale del Friuli, the Lombard Tempietto preserves stuccoes and frescoes: a masterpiece of early-medieval art still little visited.
Jun 21, 2026
Among the hills of the Logudoro, the church of the Santissima Trinità at Saccargia rises alone with its black-and-white stripes: Sardinian Romanesque with no crowds.
Jun 21, 2026
In the heart of Albenga, the Early Christian Baptistery guards ancient mosaics in a silence that, a few steps from the Ligurian beaches, seems impossible.
Jun 21, 2026
In Tuscania, off the beaten track, a medieval church preserves a cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes that almost no one comes to see.
Jun 21, 2026
A few kilometres from the crowded Sassi of Matera, a cave painted by an anonymous Lombard master guards extraordinary frescoes that almost no one sees.
Jun 21, 2026
In the heart of Greek Epirus, the Vikos gorge cuts through the Zagori mountains among stone villages and emerald waters, far from the overrun islands.
Jun 21, 2026
A Byzantine fortress on an islet off the Peloponnese: Monemvasia stays invisible until you round the final bend, into a maze of stone alleys.
Jun 21, 2026
Perched on the mountains of the Peloponnese, Dimitsana offers stone houses, watermills and authentic Arcadia, beyond the more crowded summer Greece.
Jun 21, 2026
On the Gulf of Corinth, Nafpaktos is a fortified Venetian harbour with walls that run down to the sea: quiet Greece with no queues.
Jun 21, 2026