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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.
Třeboň
A town at the centre of a 500-year man-made pond landscape, where the autumn carp harvest is a working livelihood and the spa runs on local peat.
Orvieto
A flat-topped town of volcanic tufa on the Rome–Florence main line. Most visitors leave by mid-afternoon; stay a night and Orvieto becomes yours.
Ravenna
Eight UNESCO mosaic monuments, Dante's tomb, and a direct train line: the Carinthian Door trunk route ends here, at the western edge of the Po delta.
Spoleto
An ancient hill town below a papal fortress, joined by a soaring medieval bridge to a sacred wood: one of Umbria's quietest "name" towns outside festival weeks.
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.
Tierra Ignaciana
Ignatius's birthplace and the starting line of the 650 km Camino Ignaciano, in the Basque hills around the Jesuit-Baroque Sanctuary of Loyola.