Orvieto cathedral rising above the town's rooftops, Umbria

Orvieto — Umbria · Italy →Photo: bluejayphoto / iStock

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Croatia

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3.0 / 10

Koprivnica-Križevci · Croatia

Đurđevac

A Podravina market town where a medieval rooster legend, a lake of sand dunes, and the roots of Croatian naïve art meet. The crowds never arrive.

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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.

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Hungary

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1.5 / 10

Nyugat-Dunántúl (Western Transdanubia) · Hungary

Őrség

Hungary's far-western "guard" country: dispersed hilltop hamlets, a living pottery tradition, pumpkin-seed oil, and a medieval church full of frescoes.

Border Country Craft Villages

Italy

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Piazza Grande in Arezzo, its medieval palazzo and crenellated tower hung with heraldic shields above café tables.

2.5 / 10

Tuscany · Italy

Arezzo

A working goldsmiths' city on the Florence–Rome line, holding a Piero della Francesca masterpiece: Renaissance Tuscany at a fraction of Florence's crowds.

Craft Villages Slow Food Trails

1.9 / 10

Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Italy

Carnia

The upper Friulian Alps, where the Tagliamento rises among forestry villages that speak their own language and run their own dairy.

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Romania

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A carved wooden monastery church in Maramureș, flowers in the foreground

2.0 / 10

Nord-Vest · Romania

Maramureș

Romania's living peasant north: UNESCO wooden churches, carved gates, the painted Merry Cemetery, and a forestry steam train up the Vaser valley.

Craft Villages Mountain Villages Without Cars

Slovenia

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Laško and its stone bridge over the emerald Savinja river from above

2.8 / 10

Savinjska · Slovenia

Laško

The Slovenian beer-and-thermal-water town: Heineken's largest Slovenian brewery, a 35°C mineral spring, the Pivo Cvetje festival every July.

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Spain

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The hermitage of San Saturnino amid green mountains in the Goierri, Basque Country

3.0 / 10

Gipuzkoa · Basque Country

Goierri (Idiazabal Territory)

Basque highlands where raw-milk Idiazabal ripens in farmhouse caves and a market unchanged since 1512 still opens every Wednesday beneath the Txindoki peak.

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