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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.
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.
Miranda do Douro
The Portuguese border city where Mirandese is spoken: a 7,000-person Asturleonese language island on the cliffs above the Douro.
Mértola
A fortified spur where the Guadiana meets the Oeiras: Portugal's richest window onto Al-Andalus, with the country's only surviving medieval mosque.
Laško
The Slovenian beer-and-thermal-water town: Heineken's largest Slovenian brewery, a 35°C mineral spring, the Pivo Cvetje festival every July.
Podčetrtek
On the Slovenian-Croatian border: one of the country's biggest thermal spas, a medieval castle reopened in 2024, a Pauline monastery pharmacy from 1675.
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.