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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.

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

Hungary

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1.5 / 10

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

Italy

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The village of Aliano at sundown, perched above the clay gullies of Basilicata

2.0 / 10

Basilicata · Italy

Aliano

The village on the edge of the lunar calanchi where Carlo Levi served his exile, and where he chose to be buried.

Train-Only Europe Silence

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Trentino · Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Valle dei Mòcheni (Bersntol)

A side valley east of Trento where a Bavarian-derived language has been spoken since the thirteenth century, and three villages still use it every day.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Border Country

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

Slovenia

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Aerial view of the Kolpa river and a small weir near Metlika, Bela Krajina

1.8 / 10

Bela krajina · Jugovzhodna Slovenija · Slovenia

Kolpa (Bela Krajina)

Slovenia's clear-water river border with Croatia: swimming and kayak descents through birch-forest country in the country's forgotten southern corner.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Border Country