Orvieto — Umbria · Italy →Photo: bluejayphoto / iStockDiscover
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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.
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.
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.
1.5 / 10
Baixo Alentejo · Alentejo · Portugal
Mértola
A fortified spur where the Guadiana meets the Oeiras: Portugal's richest window onto Al-Andalus, with the country's only surviving medieval mosque.
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.