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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.

Czechia

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Autumn hills and village houses near Vidče in Moravian Wallachia

3.0 / 10

Zlín Region · Czech Republic

Valašsko (Moravian Wallachia)

The Moravian highlands where a century-old open-air museum and Jurkovič's timber chalets keep the shepherd past in plain sight.

Craft Villages Mountain Villages Without Cars

France

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An old stone arch bridge over the river near Florac in the Cévennes

1.5 / 10

Lozère · Languedoc-Roussillon · France

Florac and the Cévennes

Capital village of the Cévennes National Park. Stevenson and his donkey came through in 1878, and the chestnut forests are still here.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Slow Food Trails

Aubrac cattle grazing the plateau pastures of the Aubrac, France

0.5 / 10

Aveyron–Lozère (Occitanie) · France

The Aubrac

A high basalt plateau where Aubrac herds still walk up to summer pasture each May, past burons, aligot pots and the Le Puy Camino.

Transhumance Routes Slow Food Trails

An ibex in front of Mont Aiguille on the Vercors high plateau

2.0 / 10

Isère & Drôme · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · France

Vercors

A vast limestone plateau in the pre-Alps with no railway, great caves, AOP blue cheese, and one of the heaviest Resistance memory-landscapes in France.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Transhumance Routes

Greece

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2.2 / 10

Epirus (Pindos) · Greece

Metsovo

A Vlach town at 1,150 m in the Pindos: flocks still move with the seasons, Aromanian is spoken on the square, and the town dairy smokes its own PDO cheese.

Transhumance Routes Border Country

Italy

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The Tratturo Magno drovers' road climbing towards the ruins of Peltuinum, Abruzzo

1.5 / 10

Abruzzo · Italy

Tratturo Magno

Italy's greatest droving road: 244 km of grass highway from L'Aquila to Foggia, anchored at Castel del Monte, shepherd capital of the Gran Sasso.

Transhumance Routes Mountain Villages Without Cars