Orvieto cathedral rising above the town's rooftops, Umbria

Orvieto — Umbria · Italy →Photo: bluejayphoto / iStock

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Austria

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A village and chapel above steep hay meadows in the Lesachtal

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Kärnten (Carinthia) · Austria

Lesachtal

One of the Alps' most unspoilt valleys: mountain farms, a UNESCO bread-making tradition, water mills and a pilgrimage basilica, with no through-traffic.

Mountain Villages Without Cars Slow Food Trails

Belgium

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1.5 / 10

Gaume (Belgian Lorraine) · Belgium

Orval and the Gaume

A Cistercian abbey in Belgium's quietest corner: medieval ruins beside a working monastery, one of eleven Trappist beers on earth, and beech forest all around.

Monastic Europe Border Country

Croatia

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Flooded meadows and oak woods of Lonjsko Polje from above

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Panonska Hrvatska (Pannonian Croatia) · Croatia

Lonjsko Polje

Croatia's great Sava floodplain, where storks crown the timber Posavina houses and herds graze wet commons in one of Europe's last living wetlands.

Craft Villages Transhumance Routes

Estonia

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South Estonia · Estonia

Setomaa

Estonia's Seto borderland in the far southeast: leelo polyphony and smoke saunas in a folk-Orthodox homeland the frontier cut in two.

Border Country Craft Villages

Finland

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Kainuu · Finland

Kuhmo and the Wild Taiga

Finland's eastern border taiga, where the Kalevala was gathered: brown bears, runo-song heritage and a world-class chamber music festival in the deep forest.

Border Country Slow Food Trails

France

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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

Germany

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A wooden barge moored on a reed-lined canal in the Spreewald

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Brandenburg (Lower Lusatia) · Germany

Spreewald

A UNESCO water-forest an hour from Berlin, where Sorbian villages are reached by punt through a maze of 200 canals and a gherkin built the regional cuisine.

Border Country Slow Food Trails

Greece

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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

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 San Benedetto in Norcia, at the foot of the Monti Sibillini in Umbria.

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Umbria · Italy

Norcia & Monti Sibillini

Saint Benedict's hometown under the Sibillini ridge, rebuilding since the 2016 earthquake; the Castelluccio lentils still flower every July.

Monastic Europe Slow Food Trails

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

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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

Latvia

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The red-brick bridge across the Venta river at Kuldīga

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Kurzeme (Courland) · Latvia

Kuldīga

Latvia's newest UNESCO town: a near-intact Courland capital on the Venta, with Europe's widest waterfall and its longest brick bridge a minute apart.

Craft Villages Slow Food Trails

Lithuania

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Winter view from above of Trakiškiai village and the Ūla river, Dzūkija National Park

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Dainava / Alytus County · Lithuania

Dzūkija (Marcinkonys & Zervynos)

Lithuania's great southern pine forest: ethnographic villages, a foraging culture built on mushrooms and honey, and a branch-line train to the Belarus border.

Slow Food Trails Train-Only Europe

Sweden

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Ångermanland / Västernorrland · Sweden

Höga Kusten (The High Coast)

Sweden's UNESCO High Coast: the fastest-rising land on Earth, a long-distance forest-and-fjord trail, and the home shore of fermented herring.

The Forgotten Coasts Slow Food Trails