All destinations.

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.

Czechia

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The roofs and church tower of Třeboň's old town from above

2.5 / 10

South Bohemia · Czechia

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.

Slow Food Trails Sacred Landscapes

Greece

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The Rio–Antirrio bridge across the strait seen from the beach near Patra

3.0 / 10

Achaia · Western Greece

Patra (Western Greece)

Greece's third city and its sea gateway to Italy, home to the largest carnival in the country.

Train-Only Europe The Forgotten Coasts

Hungary

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2.9 / 10

Győr-Moson-Sopron (Western Transdanubia) · Hungary

Pannonhalma

Benedictines have kept the hours on this hill since 996 — basilica, school, winery and lavender rows run to the same bells, and day-trippers leave by dusk.

Monastic Europe Lesser-Known Wine Regions

Italy

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3.0 / 10

Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Italy

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.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Border Country

The Canal Grande in Trieste leading to the church of Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, boats moored along the quays.

4.5 / 10

Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Italy

Trieste, through its writers

The Habsburg-Adriatic city of Joyce, Svevo and Saba, best read in October and November, when the Bora blows and the cafés half-empty.

Border Country Lesser-Known Wine Regions

Portugal

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A whitewashed narrow street and church tower in São Brás de Alportel, Algarve

2.0 / 10

Algarve interior · Portugal

São Brás de Alportel

Ten kilometres above the Algarve's busiest beaches, a plain working town that once corked half the world's wine — and still smells faintly of boiled bark.

Craft Villages Post-Industrial Heritage