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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.
Gressoney and the Walser Lys Valley
The upper Lys Valley, where a medieval German-speaking people settled under Monte Rosa and still speak their own alpine tongue.
Sappada / Plodn
A German-speaking Dolomite village of fifteen hamlets, where the Piave river is born and the Carnival masks have been carved from the same wood for centuries.
Kashubia (Kaszuby)
A living language island in the Pomeranian lake hills, where Kashubian is Poland's only recognised regional language and the lakes are called Switzerland.
Suwalszczyzna
Poland's wild north-east: the deepest lake in Central Europe, a glacial landscape park and the lost Yotvingian borderland, reached by Rail Baltica.
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.
Laško
The Slovenian beer-and-thermal-water town: Heineken's largest Slovenian brewery, a 35°C mineral spring, the Pivo Cvetje festival every July.