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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.
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.
Třeboň
A town at the centre of a 500-year man-made pond landscape, where the autumn carp harvest is a working livelihood and the spa runs on local peat.
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.
Saint-Junien
France's glove town: couture leather cut by hand beside the Vienne, a Romanesque collegiate church, Corot's riverbank — and very few other visitors.
The Aubrac
A high basalt plateau where Aubrac herds still walk up to summer pasture each May, past burons, aligot pots and the Le Puy Camino.
Delphi and the Phocis Hinterland
The navel of the world draws the coaches. Sleep here, wake early, then disappear into the olive groves and up the Parnassus ridge the coaches never reach.
Marathon
The plain where the Persians lost in 490 BCE, and a modern coastal town an hour from Athens that has simply stayed itself.
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.
Ravenna
Eight UNESCO mosaic monuments, Dante's tomb, and a direct train line: the Carinthian Door trunk route ends here, at the western edge of the Po delta.
Spoleto
An ancient hill town below a papal fortress, joined by a soaring medieval bridge to a sacred wood: one of Umbria's quietest "name" towns outside festival weeks.
Horezu
The Oltenian market town where the rooster plate is still thrown, horned and painted in family yards — with Brâncoveanu's finest monastery 3 km away.
Maramureș
Romania's living peasant north: UNESCO wooden churches, carved gates, the painted Merry Cemetery, and a forestry steam train up the Vaser valley.
The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
Fifteenth-century churches painted inside and out — Voroneț blue, Last Judgements on exterior walls — still served by nuns in Romania's far northeast.
Laško
The Slovenian beer-and-thermal-water town: Heineken's largest Slovenian brewery, a 35°C mineral spring, the Pivo Cvetje festival every July.
Podčetrtek
On the Slovenian-Croatian border: one of the country's biggest thermal spas, a medieval castle reopened in 2024, a Pauline monastery pharmacy from 1675.
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.
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.