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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.

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.

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Bulgaria

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A river winding through forested gorges of the central Rhodopes

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Yuzhen tsentralen (South Central) · Bulgaria

Rhodope Mountains (Central Rhodopes)

Bulgaria's green mountain south: Pomak villages, the bagpipe heartland of Shiroka Laka, the Trigrad gorge where myth sends Orpheus into the underworld.

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France

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An old stone arch bridge over the river near Florac in the Cévennes

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Lozère · Languedoc-Roussillon · France

Florac and the Cévennes

Capital village of the Cévennes National Park. Stevenson and his donkey came through in 1878, and the chestnut forests are still here.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Slow Food Trails

Greece

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The lit central bridge over the Lithaios river in Trikala at night

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Thessaly · Greece

Trikala

Gateway to Meteora, birthplace of Asclepius, Greece's first "smart city": all three at once, on the rail line through Thessaly.

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Italy

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The village of Pietrapertosa lit at dusk beneath the rock pinnacles of the Lucanian Dolomites.

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Basilicata · Italy

Pietrapertosa

The highest village in Basilicata, split by a Saracen alley and a Norman castle, twin to Castelmezzano on the opposite cliff.

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3.0 / 10

Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Italy

Sappada / Plodn

A German-speaking Dolomite village of fifteen hamlets, where the Piave river is born and the Carnival masks have been carved from the same wood for centuries.