Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
Zavattarello in Oltrepò Pavese: the imposing Dal Verme castle lords over vine-covered hills and chestnut woods, far from everything — perfect for a slow weekend.
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Bienno in Valle Camonica: water-powered forges still in use, artisan workshops and Renaissance frescoes in one of Italy's most beautiful borgos.
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Discover Sabbioneta, the Renaissance ideal city built by Vespasiano Gonzaga: a theatre, a ducal palace and perfect streets in the Mantuan lowlands.
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Frigiliana is the most beautiful pueblo blanco of Málaga's Axarquía, with an intact Moorish quarter, Mediterranean views and rare sugarcane honey.
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Medinaceli is a hilltop borgo in Castile with the only triple-arched Roman triumphal arch on the Iberian Peninsula, and a ducal palace facing the infinite plain.
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Pedraza is a walled medieval borgo in Castile where every July the streets glow with thousands of candles within its perfectly preserved walls.
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Aínsa is a perfectly preserved medieval borgo at the foot of the Aragonese Pyrenees, gateway to the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido.
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A fortified Navarrese hilltop village with a Romanesque-Gothic sanctuary, sweeping views over the plain, and a silence that feels centuries old.
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Morella is a spectacular walled medieval citadel in the heart of the Maestrazgo, with an impregnable castle, dinosaur fossils, and a gastronomy worth seeking out.
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