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99 places carrying our editorial line — every one of them genuinely undertouristed, every one of them with a named editor and a real local voice.
Aubusson
Six centuries of European tapestry-weaving in a small Creuse river town: a near-dead craft brought back to working life as UNESCO intangible heritage.
Saint-Junien
France's glove town: couture leather cut by hand beside the Vienne, a Romanesque collegiate church, Corot's riverbank — and very few other visitors.
Mértola
A fortified spur where the Guadiana meets the Oeiras: Portugal's richest window onto Al-Andalus, with the country's only surviving medieval mosque.
São Brás de Alportel
Ten kilometres above the Algarve's busiest beaches, a plain working town that once corked half the world's wine — and still smells faintly of boiled bark.
Banská Štiavnica
A UNESCO silver-mining town in a collapsed volcano, with Europe's old mining university, a Baroque Calvary on the hill and a ring of man-made lakes.
Špania Dolina
A copper-mining village of 240 people above Banská Bystrica, where the miners' wives made bobbin lace — and the lace is still taught.
