Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
Carrara's cuisine takes its name from its most famous hamlet, Colonnata, but goes beyond lardo: here's where to try it between town and quarries.
Aug 3, 2026
Carrara alternates a medieval centre at the foot of the Apuan Alps with the coastal Marina di Carrara: where to stay depending on whether you want art, quarries or the sea.
Aug 3, 2026
Inside the Maremma Regional Park, Alberese beach is one of the most unspoiled stretches of sandy coast left in Tuscany, protected precisely because it's so rare.
Aug 3, 2026
Built up around one of Europe's largest 19th-century ironworks, Follonica today is beaches and pine forests on its namesake gulf, with the Colline Metallifere hills rising behind it.
Aug 3, 2026
Once called Punta Troia, renamed in the 1930s and developed as a resort mostly from the 1970s onward: Punta Ala is the Maremma's most organised stretch, with pine forests and a modern marina.
Aug 3, 2026
Castle, canal-port and the Tombolo pine forest stretching east: Castiglione della Pescaia is the Maremma coast at its most intimate, between Etruscans and reclaimed marshland.
Aug 3, 2026
On the north-western coast of Giglio, the bay of Campese is framed by a coastal tower built for Cosimo I against Saracen raids: today just sunsets and water that keeps changing colour.
Aug 3, 2026
At 405 metres above sea level, within Aldobrandeschi walls and views that reach as far as Corsica on clear days, Giglio Castello is the Isle of Giglio without the port's bustle.
Aug 3, 2026
A 474-hectare nature reserve between Orbetello and Monte Argentario, crossed only on foot or by bicycle: the wildest stretch of Tuscan coast left standing.
Aug 3, 2026