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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.
Comacchio
A canal town in the Po Delta lagoons: bridges, eels, flamingos, and a Slow Food marinating works that keeps a centuries-old eel tradition alive.
Salento (interior)
The deep heel of Italy, where a Greek-derived language still lives in a cluster of whitewashed villages and the whole coast empties after August.
Specchia
Pale-stone alleys and walled gardens on a south-Salento hill, far enough inland that the coastal August never quite arrives.
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.
Koper
Slovenia's Venetian port city: a bilingual, lived-in old town twenty kilometres from Trieste, still running at its own pace.
Ebro Delta
The largest western Mediterranean wetland: 320 km² of Catalan rice fields, salt pans and the world's biggest Audouin's gull colony.
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.