Orvieto cathedral rising above the town's rooftops, Umbria

Orvieto — Umbria · Italy →Photo: bluejayphoto / iStock

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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.

Czechia

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Mikulov old town and castle beneath the Pálava hills

2.8 / 10

Břeclav · South Moravian Region · Czechia

Mikulov and the Pálava

The Moravian wine capital on the Austrian border: Renaissance square, Jewish cemetery, the Pálava limestone hills, and twelve official vineyard tracts.

Lesser-Known Wine Regions Border Country

France

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

1.5 / 10

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

Italy

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3.5 / 10

Umbria · Italy

Orvieto

A flat-topped town of volcanic tufa on the Rome–Florence main line. Most visitors leave by mid-afternoon; stay a night and Orvieto becomes yours.

Lesser-Known Wine Regions Sacred Landscapes

Poland

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The historic wooden Orthodox tserkva among green trees at Bartne, Low Beskids

1.5 / 10

Małopolskie + Podkarpackie · Lesser Poland · Poland

Beskid Niski (Low Beskids)

The emptiest range in the Polish Carpathians: Lemko ghost villages and UNESCO wooden churches in the absence that 1947 left behind.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Border Country

Romania

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A carved wooden monastery church in Maramureș, flowers in the foreground

2.0 / 10

Nord-Vest · Romania

Maramureș

Romania's living peasant north: UNESCO wooden churches, carved gates, the painted Merry Cemetery, and a forestry steam train up the Vaser valley.

Craft Villages Mountain Villages Without Cars

Slovakia

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Church towers and pastel facades of Banská Štiavnica stacked on the caldera slopes

2.5 / 10

Stredné Slovensko (Central Slovakia) · Slovakia

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.

Post-Industrial Heritage Sacred Landscapes

Slovenia

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Laško and its stone bridge over the emerald Savinja river from above

2.8 / 10

Savinjska · Slovenia

Laško

The Slovenian beer-and-thermal-water town: Heineken's largest Slovenian brewery, a 35°C mineral spring, the Pivo Cvetje festival every July.

Craft Villages Sacred Landscapes

Spain

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Waves breaking on the rocky coast at Arnuero, with beach and village behind, Trasmiera

2.5 / 10

Arnuero · Cantabria · Spain

Ecoparque de Trasmiera (Arnuero)

The Cantabrian coastal park of a 2,100-person municipality: three villages, two beaches, a tidal mill, and the regeneration story the EDEN award recognised.

The Forgotten Coasts Sacred Landscapes

2.6 / 10

Urola–Debagoiena · Basque Country · Spain

Tierra Ignaciana

Ignatius's birthplace and the starting line of the 650 km Camino Ignaciano, in the Basque hills around the Jesuit-Baroque Sanctuary of Loyola.

Monastic Europe Sacred Landscapes