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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Koper
Slovenia's Venetian port city: a bilingual, lived-in old town twenty kilometres from Trieste, still running at its own pace.