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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.
Nový Bor
Two Bohemian glass towns still at work: furnaces you can stand over, Europe's oldest glass schools, and a basalt organ with no queue.
Cividale del Friuli
Where Julius Caesar's marketplace became Italy's first Lombard duchy: a UNESCO town on an emerald river at the Slovene border.
Luserna / Lusérn
A plateau village of 263 people above the Astico valley, where Cimbrian, a medieval Bavarian dialect, is still the everyday language of the street.
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.
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.
Valle dei Mòcheni (Bersntol)
A side valley east of Trento where a Bavarian-derived language has been spoken since the thirteenth century, and three villages still use it every day.
Beskid Niski (Low Beskids)
The emptiest range in the Polish Carpathians: Lemko ghost villages and UNESCO wooden churches in the absence that 1947 left behind.
Bieszczady
Poland's emptiest mountains, where the połoniny grasslands open above old-growth forest and ghost orchards mark villages erased in 1947.
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.