Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
In Agnone, in upper Molise, the Pontifical Marinelli Foundry has been casting bells since the late Middle Ages: it is Italy's oldest family craft business, still active in its 27th generation.
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At nearly a thousand metres, the Samnite theatre-temple of Pietrabbondante is the most important monument of the Samnite civilisation: sublime, solitary, and nearly invisible.
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At Altilia, three kilometres from Sepino, an intact Roman city emerges from the fields — with its walls, triumphal gates, and a theatre embedded in an eighteenth-century farmhouse.
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At 600 metres on Monte Subasio, this hamlet of Spello counts about fifty souls, a medieval castle, and a Roman path that descends through the olive groves to the city of flowers.
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Along the ancient Via Flaminia, Massa Martana hides Umbria's only Christian catacombs and three Romanesque abbeys that history books overlook.
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So close to Perugia it could seem a neighbourhood, so different it could seem another world: Corciano preserves an almost intact network of concentric medieval streets.
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At 978 metres in the Sibillini Mountains, this medieval village has been reclaiming for decades its sixth-century BC Etruscan chariot, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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Above the southern shore of Lake Trasimeno, Panicale holds a masterpiece by Perugino and a theatre whose origins date to 1692, still in use, ignored by those rushing to Castiglione.
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Between Todi and Orvieto, the Tiber has carved a two-hundred-metre canyon into the limestone: the Forello Gorge is the wild Umbria nobody expects.
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