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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.
Carlingford & Cooley Peninsula
A medieval walled port on the border-water of Carlingford Lough: Norman castle, Old Norse name, and a peninsula of mountain track behind it.
Cavan
The Lakeland County: 365 lakes scattered through drumlin country, with the source of the Shannon hidden on a mountain along the Northern Ireland border.
Clonakilty
A West Cork market town built on black pudding, Michael Collins's birthplace, and a pub that drew Ireland's best traditional players for forty years.
Great Western Greenway
Ireland's longest off-road greenway: 42 km along Clew Bay from Westport to Achill, on the trackbed of the Achill railway that closed in 1937.
Loop Head
A 30-kilometre Atlantic peninsula at the mouth of the Shannon: a working lighthouse at its tip, and the western anchor of the Wild Atlantic Way.
Sheep's Head
A walking peninsula in West Cork: 88 km of waymarked old farm tracks between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay, one farmhouse cheese, three villages.
Comacchio
A canal town in the Po Delta lagoons: bridges, eels, flamingos, and a Slow Food marinating works that keeps a centuries-old eel tradition alive.
Penisola del Sinis – Mal di Ventre
Quiet western Sardinia: a quartz-beached peninsula, one of Europe's largest lagoons, Phoenician Tharros, and the Giants of Mont'e Prama.
Salento (interior)
The deep heel of Italy, where a Greek-derived language still lives in a cluster of whitewashed villages and the whole coast empties after August.
Specchia
Pale-stone alleys and walled gardens on a south-Salento hill, far enough inland that the coastal August never quite arrives.
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.
A Guarda
A working lobster port at the mouth of the Miño, with an Iron-Age Celtic hillfort above and Portugal visible across the water.
Ecoparque de Trasmiera (Arnuero)
The Cantabrian coastal park of a 2,100-person municipality: three villages, two beaches, a tidal mill, and the regeneration story the EDEN award recognised.