Orvieto cathedral rising above the town's rooftops, Umbria

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Austria

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A village and chapel above steep hay meadows in the Lesachtal

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Kärnten (Carinthia) · Austria

Lesachtal

One of the Alps' most unspoilt valleys: mountain farms, a UNESCO bread-making tradition, water mills and a pilgrimage basilica, with no through-traffic.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Slow Food Trails

Croatia

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Flooded meadows and oak woods of Lonjsko Polje from above

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Panonska Hrvatska (Pannonian Croatia) · Croatia

Lonjsko Polje

Croatia's great Sava floodplain, where storks crown the timber Posavina houses and herds graze wet commons in one of Europe's last living wetlands.

Craft Villages Transhumance Routes

Czechia

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Liberecký kraj (North Bohemia) · Czechia

Nový Bor

Two Bohemian glass towns still at work: furnaces you can stand over, Europe's oldest glass schools, and a basalt organ with no queue.

Craft Villages Post-Industrial Heritage

Estonia

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South Estonia · Estonia

Setomaa

Estonia's Seto borderland in the far southeast: leelo polyphony and smoke saunas in a folk-Orthodox homeland the frontier cut in two.

Border Country Craft Villages

France

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Creuse · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · France

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.

Craft Villages Post-Industrial Heritage

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Haute-Vienne (Limousin) · France

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.

Craft Villages Post-Industrial Heritage

Hungary

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Nyugat-Dunántúl (Western Transdanubia) · Hungary

Őrség

Hungary's far-western "guard" country: dispersed hilltop hamlets, a living pottery tradition, pumpkin-seed oil, and a medieval church full of frescoes.

Border Country Craft Villages

Latvia

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The red-brick bridge across the Venta river at Kuldīga

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Kurzeme (Courland) · Latvia

Kuldīga

Latvia's newest UNESCO town: a near-intact Courland capital on the Venta, with Europe's widest waterfall and its longest brick bridge a minute apart.

Craft Villages Slow Food Trails

Poland

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The town centre of Kartuzy in the Kashubian Lake District, Pomerania

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Pomerania (Pomorskie) · Poland

Kashubia (Kaszuby)

A living language island in the Pomeranian lake hills, where Kashubian is Poland's only recognised regional language and the lakes are called Switzerland.