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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.

Ireland

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The medieval King John's Castle beside the harbour at Carlingford, on the Cooley Peninsula.

3.0 / 10

Louth · Ireland

Carlingford & Cooley Peninsula

A medieval walled port on the border-water of Carlingford Lough: Norman castle, Old Norse name, and a peninsula of mountain track behind it.

The Forgotten Coasts Border Country

Cyclists on the Great Western Greenway near Mulranny, County Mayo

2.5 / 10

Mayo · Ireland

Great Western Greenway

Ireland's longest off-road greenway: 42 km along Clew Bay from Westport to Achill, on the trackbed of the Achill railway that closed in 1937.

The Forgotten Coasts Post-Industrial Heritage

Italy

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3.6 / 10

Lecce · Puglia · Italy

Specchia

Pale-stone alleys and walled gardens on a south-Salento hill, far enough inland that the coastal August never quite arrives.

Slow Food Trails The Forgotten Coasts

Spain

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Flamingos in the wetlands of the Ebro Delta Natural Park, Catalonia

2.2 / 10

Tarragona · Catalonia · Spain

Ebro Delta

The largest western Mediterranean wetland: 320 km² of Catalan rice fields, salt pans and the world's biggest Audouin's gull colony.

The Forgotten Coasts Slow Food Trails

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